A climbing championship will be held in Irkutsk Region, bringing together the regions strongest athletes and letting participants earn ranking points. The competition will feature difficulty, bouldering and speed, with titled climbers from the Angara region, including Evgeny Bashkirtsev, Anton Galdus, Veronika Krivosheeva and Ekaterina Chestnova. Details on the start time and place in the article.
The competitions are held with the aim of improving athletic skill, identifying the strongest athletes, allowing participants to earn ranking points, and popularizing and developing climbing in the Angara region.The competitions are held in three disciplines: lead, bouldering, and speed. Athletes born in 1998 and earlier will take part in the championship. Among the titled athletes of the Angara region, the competition will feature the 2013 Siberian champion and international master of sport Evgeny Bashkirtsev, as well as the silver medalists of the 2013 Siberian championship Anton Galdus, Veronika Krivosheeva, and Ekaterina Chestnova.
The competitions are being held by the Irkutsk Region Climbing Federation, the Ministry of Physical Culture, Sports and Youth Policy of the region, the NI IrGTU sports club, and the Gold`s Gym fitness club.
The ceremonial opening of the tournament and the start of the lead discipline competitions will take place on February 8 at 09:00 in the gym of NI IrGTU (Irkutsk, 83 Lermontov St.). The speed discipline competitions will take place on February 10 at 15:30 at the climbing wall of the Gold`s Gym fitness club (Irkutsk, 13/2 Zhukov Avenue).
Based on materials from the press service of the Department for Physical Culture and Sports of the Irkutsk Region