Bouldering World Cup 2014: a mid term video report

After five years of video reports following each stage of the Bouldering World Cup, German coach Udo Neumann has now decided to do something new: offer his analysis and his point of view half way through the season. So after the stages at Chongqing, Baku, Grindelwald and Innsbruck, here's his reasoning as to why the provisional ranking is currently led by Russia's Dimitri Sarafutdinov and Britain's Shauna Coxsey. But since the World Cup still needs to stop off at Toronto in Canada, Vail in the USA, Haiyang in China and Laval in France, surely there are plenty of surprises in store.

BOULDERING WORLD CUP 2014
Provisional ranking after the 4th stage in Innsbruck
Men
1 Dmitrii Sharafutdinov RUS 315.00
2 Jan Hojer GER 314.00
3 Kilian Fischhuber AUT 234.00
4 Rustam Gelmanov RUS 174.00
5 Guillaume Glairon Mondet FRA 158.00
6 Jernej Kruder SLO 136.00
7 James Kassay AUS 120.00
8 Jorg Verhoeven NED 113.00
9 Jeremy Bonder FRA 109.00

Women
1 Shauna Coxsey GBR 345.00
2 Anna Stöhr AUT 311.00
3 Akiyo Noguchi JPN 265.00
4 Juliane Wurm GER 260.00
5 Alex Puccio USA 190.00
6 Marine Thévenet FRA 169.00
7 Momoka Oda JPN 140.00
8 Mina Markovic SLO 110.00
9 Fanny Gibert FRA 107.00
10 Miho Nonaka JPN 87.00