Bouldering World Cup 2012: Gelmanov and Noguchi win in Vienna

Third round, of six, today in Vienna. The Bouldering World Cup 2012 has reached the half-way point and this evening, in the Austrian capital, it was him once again - Rustam Gelmanov - and her once again - Akiyo Noguchi, who dominated and won the event.

The Russian and the Japanese comfortably lead the provisional results after an exceptional competition: Gelmanov send all four boulder problems in the final in 7 attempts, while Noguchi was just as impeccable with 4 problems sent in a mere 6 attemtps.

Second place in the beautiful men's final went to Dmitrii Sharafutdinov (3 tops in 4 attempts) and third went to Kilian Fischhuber (3 tops in 5 attempts) while Rei Sugimoto from Japan and the Frenchmen Thomas Caleyron and Jeremy Bonder completed the list. These last three aren't names which usually make it into the final ranking but obviously in Vienna today they managed to find that little bit of something more which bouldering can sometimes give. Or take away: just ask Jakob Schubert and the 2009 Bouldering World Champion Alexey Rubtsov, two of the numerous illustrious climbers who much to everyone's surprise failed to make it through the qualification.

The women's final provided no great upsets, and after gold taken by Noguchi, silver was won by Slovenian Mina Markovic (3 tops in 5 attempts) and bronze by American Alex Puccio (2 tops in 2 attempts and the best in the Semi-final). The remaining three, in this extremely international final, were Shauna Coxsey from great Britain, local Austrian hope Anna Stöhr and Olga Shalagina from the Ukraine.

All these athletes will now enjoy a fortnight's rest before the 4th round in Innsbruck on 18-19 May.

IFSC World Cup 2012 - Vienna, Austria
Boulder men
1	Rustam	Gelmanov	RUS	4t7 4b4
2	Dmitrii	Sharafutdinov	RUS	3t4 4b4
3	Kilian	Fischhuber	AUT	3t5 4b4
4	Rei	Sugimoto	JPN	3t13 4b7
5	Thomas	Caleyron	FRA	2t3 4b5
6	Jeremy	Bonder	FRA	2t12 2b9
Boulder women
1	Akiyo	Noguchi	JPN	4t6 4b4
2	Mina	Markovic	SLO	3t5 4b4
3	Alex	Puccio	USA	2t2 3b4
4	Shauna	Coxsey	GBR	2t5 4b7
5	Anna	Stöhr	AUT	1t1 3b3
6	Olga	Shalagina	UKR	0t 0b
Provisional results 2012
Boulder men
1.	Rustam	Gelmanov	RUS	265
2.	Dmitrii	Sharafutdinov	RUS	161
3.	Guillaume	Glairon Mondet	FRA	156
4.	Jakob	Schubert	AUT	154
5.	Kilian	Fischhuber	AUT	145
Boulder women
1.	Akiyo	Noguchi	JPN	251
2.	Mina	Markovic	SLO	227
3.	Anna	Stöhr	AUT	196
4.	Shauna	Coxsey	GBR	190
5.	Alex	Puccio	USA	125