My good friend Sean McColl is competing at the World Championships in Xining, Qinghai, China. This event is a huge. It’s like a bunch of World Cups rolled into one. There’s a difficulty lead comp, a bouldering comp, and a speed comp. The event runs from June 30th to July 5th, 2009. I’ve been watching results and Sean is doing quite well. He’s made semi finals for both bouldering and lead events ranked at 11th and 1st, respectively. He didn’t do so well in the speed event, but really, speed climbing is lame. Semi-finals happen this weekend with bouldering on Saturday and lead on Sunday.
The comp wall. Click to enlarge.
Sean has been traveling through Europe for almost 3 months already. He’s been competing in World Cups, Roc Trips, and climbing outside. The World Championships wasn’t one of Sean’s destinations because China was too far away and expensive to travel to. With the help and encouragement from our climbing federation, Competition Climbing Canada (CEC), Sean made the journey to Chinaland to compete in this awesome event. The CEC is the same organization that backs our sanctioned competitions in Canada. It’s a group of mainly volunteers that all want to see climbing grow as a sport in Canada. Sean has been supported by this organization since his first international competition when he was 14 years old.
Let’s all wish Sean luck this weekend. Go Canada Go!
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