Following the bouldering kickoff in Keqiao last weekend, the Lead and Speed disciplines will also start the 2025 IFSC World Cup season this Friday. All information about the World Cup in Wujiang, China from April 25th to 27th.
At the second World Cup event of the season in Wujiang this weekend, the IFSC also set the competition year 2025 for their two disciplines Lead and Speed.
Last weekend, at the first Boulder World Cup Keqiao Already at the start of the season Dominance of the Japanese national team signed – large parts of the squad will also take part in the Lead World Cup.
Overall, we will see many faces from Keqiao again this weekend: Both the first Bouldering World Cup winner of the season, Sorato Anraku, as well as the runner-up from Keqiao Dohyun Lee are taking part in the Lead World Cup in Wujiang. The newly crowned bouldering world champion Annie Sanders as well as Keqiao's bronze medalist Erin McNeice.
In addition to the all-rounders, many lead specialists from the DACH region will also start the season in Wujiang: for example, Flora Oblasser, Jessica Pilz and Mattea Pötzi for Austria, Liv Egli and Jonas Utelli for Switzerland and Yannick Flohe and Martina Demmel for Germany. Also Sascha Lehmann After a somewhat cautious start to the bouldering season, he now wants to try his hand at climbing.
Schedule and program
The qualification, semi-finals and finals of the disciplines will take place on the weekend Lead and Speed Like Keqiao, Wujiang (GMT+8) is six hours ahead of Central European Summer Time (GMT+2). The times given refer to the local time in Wujiang.
- Friday, 25th of April 2025
09:00 Qualification Lead Men & Women
19:00 PM Qualification Speed Men & Women - Saturday, 26th of April 2025
15:00 PM Semifinals Lead Men & Women
19:30 PM Finals Speed Men & Women - Sunday 27. April 2025
19:00 p.m. Final Lead Women
followed by the final lead men
Live Stream
For the YouTube live stream The IFSC has local restrictions that can be circumvented with a VPN client. Viewers in Europe can watch the semifinals and finals live with a paid subscription on Discovery + or the Eurosport Player . track
Semifinals Lead (Saturday 15:00 PM, GMT+8)
Finals Speed (Saturday 19:30 PM, GMT+8)
Finals Lead (Sunday 19:00 PM, GMT+8)
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Credits cover photo: IFSC/Nakajima Kazushige