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Ice Climbing World Championship 2015 at Corvara

The final stages of the Ice Climbing World Championship 2015 are currently taking place in Corvara / Rabenstein, Italy, today. The Speed discipline was won last night by the Russians Vladimir Kartashev and Maria Krasavina. At present the Men’s Lead Semifinal is being battled out, while Italian hopes are high for locals Angelika Rainer and Barbara Zwerger who will compete in the finals as of 13:30. The entire event is being streamed live now.

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February 2015

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Angelika Rainer: Ice Climbing World Championship 2015

Harald Wisthaler / Ice Climbing World Championship 2015

The finals of the Ice Climbing World Championship start today at 13.30 the best ice climbers in the world battling it out for the Lead title. On Saturday morning 22 female athletes from 13 nations competed in the Semifinals, including defending champion Angelika Rainer. The 28-year-old local climber felt the pressure but nevertheless held her verve to qualify second "The last 20 minutes before the semifinals were terrible. I was very nervous. But I'm happy that I can defend my title properly", explained Rainer.

The other South Tyrolean climber, Barbara Zwerger, climbed superbly too, surprising herself even to qualify for the final. ”I'm a little surprised, but obviously very happy with my performance. Qualifying for the final is already a great result, also because I couldn’ do any specific World Championship training beforehand" explained Zwerger.

The eight finalists
In addition to Rainer and Zwerger, the other finalists vying for the World Championship title are WoonSeon Shin (KOR), Liudmila Badaylan (RUS), Petra Klingler (SUI), Natalya Kulikova (RUS), Radka Petkova (BUL) and Nadezhda Gallyamova (RUS). Much to everyone’s surprise HanNaRai Song from Korea failed to qualify for the final.

In the men’s event, yesterday 19 athletes qualified for Sunday morning’s Semifinal, including the two favorites Tomilov Maxim (Russia) and Hee Yong Park (Korea).

Speed
The Ice Climbing Speed World Championship was won last by the Russians Vladimir Kartashev and Maria Krasavina.

SPEED WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
Men
1 Kartashev Vladimir RUS
2 Primerov Nikolay RUS
3 Trapeznikov Egor RUS
4 Golub Vlad RUS
5 Kuzovlev Nikolai RUS
6 Shved Nikolay RUS
7 Tomilov Alexey RUS
8 Vagin Alexey RUS
9 Kolchegoshev Kirill RUS
10 Terekhin Vasily RUS
11 Vlasov Maxim RUS
12 Yang MyungWook KOR
13 Clavien Samuel SUI
14 van Hoek Dennis NED
15 Kwon YoungHye KOR
16 Behlic Damir CRO
17 GEROME Yann FRA
- Svingal Juraj SVK

Women
1 Krasavina Maria RUS
2 Feoktistova Ekaterina RUS
3 Koshcheeva Ekaterina RUS
4 Oleynikova Julia RUS
5 Kulikova Natalya RUS
6 Stritch Kendra USA
7 Gallyamova Nadezhda RUS
8 Smirnova Nadezda RUS
9 Kochebaeva Alena RUS
10 Edler Mariia RUS
11 JARY Coralie FRA
12 Vlasova Ekaterina RUS
13 Kosek Olga POL
14 van der Steen Marianne NED
15 Wells Anna-Marie GBR
16 MYKHAILOVA OLGA UKR