Ten highlights from the 2022-23 UIAA Ice Climbing World Tour
The 2022-23 UIAA Ice Climbing World Tour, partnered by Outdoor Research, comprised eight events held in seven countries. This included a World Youth Championships, three World Cups and four European…
Final medals of 2022-23 season decided
A weekend to remember in Oulu, Finland closed the 2022-23 UIAA Ice Climbing World Tour, partnered by Outdoor Research. Following three World Cups, four European Cups and a World Youth…
True festival of ice climbing to close 2022-23 season
The city of Oulu in Finland has the honour of closing the 2022-23 UIAA Ice Climbing season on the weekend of 25-26 February. It will be a true festival of…
A successful first trip to Scotland
The penultimate UIAA ice climbing event of the 2022-23 season took place in Glasgow, Scotland on Saturday 18 February with a lead-only discipline European Cup event. It is the first…
Extension of UIAA Ice Climbing World Tour partnership
During the recent UIAA Ice Climbing World Cup in Cheongsong, South Korea, the Youngone Corporation formally agreed to extend its partnership of the UIAA Ice Climbing World Tour until 2025.…
![SNAPPED AXE TO TOP OF THE PODIUM: SIGN OF A CHAMPION
[The UIAA’s top ten moments from this season]
Since emerging on the scene in 2019, Louna Ladevant has become the dominant male lead climber on the circuit. He won the last complete World Tour in 2020 before the disruption of the pandemic and followed that up with a European Championships success in 2021 and as World Champion in Switzerland in 2022. This year marked an opportunity to defend the World Cup circuit title from 2020. It started inauspiciously. A snapped axe in the Korean Alps led to a costly fall in the final. It compounded a frustrating weekend where his equipment and luggage never arrived. He responded in the style of a champion, dominating his home World Cup in France and then winning another gold medal in Saas-Fee to take the World Tour title.
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