From this season there will be live streams of European climbing competitions

Attention friends of competitive climbing: From 2024, the IFSC will no longer only broadcast World Cups and World Championships live, but also the vast majority of European events. The climbing association has set up a new YouTube channel for streaming European Cups and European Championships.

From 2024 it wants to IFSC actively expand coverage of their European events. According to the International Sport Climbing Federation, the vast majority of events will take place on the newly established IFSC Europe Youtube channel streamed live.

IFSC European Cups and Championships, including youth events, would also receive extensive coverage on other IFSC digital channels, in particular on the IFSC website, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

European Championships in Switzerland

The IFSC European season begins on the weekend of March 16th and 17th in Lublin, Poland, with two speed events – a European Cup and a Youth European Cup – taking place at the same location.

The continental calendar of events reaches its peak at the end of August, shortly after the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, with the European Climbing and Paraclimbing Championships taking place in Villars from August 24th to September 1st.

In addition to the European Championships, the continental calendar currently includes seven European Cups, eight European Youth Cups and one European Youth Championship, which takes place from September 25th to 29th in Troyes, France.

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