Oriane Bertone & Anraku Sorato win Boulder World Cup 2025, Janja Garnbret & Toby Roberts win in Innsbruck

The sixth and final stage of the Boulder World Cup 2025 took place in Innsbruck, Austria, this weekend and with a stacked field, expectations were heading towards the World Championships later this year.

In the women's event, Janja Garnbret of Slovenia made a stunning return to competition by winning gold after topping all four boulders in the final and reminding the world why she is a two-time Olympic champion. Appearing in her first World Cup since Koper 2024, Garnbret was the only athlete to top every problem in the final, and she even flashed W3 and W4 to finish with the impressive score of 99.3 points. As she secured the top on the last problem, the crowd erupted in celebration, joined by her fellow finalists who spontaneously applauded the performance. "It feels amazing. I didn’t know how I would feel coming back, but this amazing Innsbruck crowd welcomed me back.” said Garnbret. “I really enjoyed myself on the wall, had a bit of a shaky start in qualification, then it felt 100% better in semi-final, and now I felt like my old self in final. I really enjoyed being back."

Oriane Bertone of France returned to the podium with two tops and 69.8 points, earning her third silver medal, fourth overall podium of the 2025 season and, importantly, the overall title with 4,375 points. In doing so, Bertone is the first French woman to win the Boulder Series since Juliette Danion did so in 2007. Matsufuji Anon of Japan topped two but needed more attempts than Bertone, and therefore claimed bronze in Innsbruck — her second career World Cup medal — after being consistent throughout the entire competition. Camilla Moroni of Italy narrowly missed the podium with 53.8 points and one top, ahead of Nakamura Mao of Japan in fifth with 53.6. Semi-final winner Annie Sanders of the USA ended her run in sixth place with 44.6, scoring on only three boulders and missing out entirely on W1. Sekikawa Melody of Japan placed seventh with 29.3, while Giorgia Tesio of Italy finished eighth in her first-ever Boulder final with 10.0 points and just one zone.

Nakamura Mao of Japan improved on her third place from last season to take second in this year's Boulder Series with 3,480 points. The 20-year-old earned her first career World Cup victory in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, and added two fourth-place finishes and two fifths to round out a solid year. Annie Sanders of the USA placed third with 3,290 points, despite missing one event in Curitiba. The 17-year-old reached four finals, placed outside the top 10 only once—in Prague—and collected gold in Keqiao, silver in Bern, and bronze in Salt Lake City to complete her medal collection. It is also her first Series podium finish.

In the men's event, a dramatic final round brought the World Cup to a thrilling conclusion as Toby Roberts of Great Britain secured his first gold medal of the season with 69.8 points. The 20-year-old showed steady progression throughout the round, starting with two zones in the opening problems, and finishing strong with consecutive flashes on M3 and M4 to clinch the win. “I’m at a loss for words, I don’t really know what just happened,” said Roberts after the event. “This season has been quite hard, but going into this event I wanted to give everything, and to be honest I’m a little bit starstruck. I’m just so happy.” He added: “I definitely struggled a bit post-Olympics, and when I started the season it hit me and I started to feel quite bad. I just wanted to go out there and climb the way I know I can. This competition has been incredible, I enjoyed every moment and to get away with a gold medal doesn’t even feel real.”

Anraku Sorato of Japan placed second with 69.6 points and tops on M2 and M3. As the last climber out, he needed a top on M4 to claim gold but fell short after flashing the zone, settling for silver by a margin of 0.2 points. Just as close was the race for bronze: Hannes Van Duysen of Belgium earned his first World Cup medal of the season with 54.6 points thanks to a top on M3 and three zone flashes. Maximillian Milne of Great Britain narrowly missed the podium with 54.5 points, just 0.1 behind his Belgian rival. Lee Dohyun of South Korea, who placed second in the semi-final, took fifth with 44.9 points — his flash on M2 initially placing him in medal contention. However, he was unable to secure another top. Mejdi Schalck of France followed in sixth with 44.3, Amagasa Sohta of Japan finished seventh with 39.9, and Austria’s Nicolai Uznik placed eighth with 19.3.

Anraku Sorato claimed his third consecutive men’s Boulder World Cup title. Anraku topped the season rankings with unmatched consistency and dominance and led the field from start to finish, edging out Mejdi Schalck of France and fellow Japanese climber Amagasa Sohta in the final standings.

With 5,300 total points, Anraku Sorato completed a perfect run of podiums in the 2025 season, winning in Keqiao (China); Curitiba (Brazil); and Salt Lake City (USA); taking second in Prague (Czechia); and Innsbruck (Austria); and finishing third in Bern (Switzerland). His third consecutive title places him alongside two of the discipline's most iconic names: Kilian Fischhuber of Austria, who won in 2007, 2008, and 2009 and holds a record five Boulder titles overall; and Jérôme Meyer of France, who claimed three of his four consecutively, from 2001 to 2003 – all before the IFSC was founded.

Mejdi Schalck of France placed second overall with 4,145 points and won his first-ever season podium. A finalist at all six Boulder World Cup competitions, Schalck scored silver medals in Curitiba and Bern, and celebrated a memorable gold - his first-ever - in Prague. Japan’s Amagasa Sohta completed the overall podium with 3,680 points, another debut appearance in the Series top three. Amagasa never placed outside the top 10 and secured a silver medal in Salt Lake City, marking another successful year at 25 years old.

FINAL RANKING 2025
MEN
1 Sorato Anraku JPN 5300
2 Mejdi Schalck FRA 4145
3 Sohta Amagasa JPN 3240
4 Dohyun Lee KOR 3105
5 Hannes Van Duysen BEL 2355
6 Paul Jenft FRA 1965
7 Tomoa Narasaki JPN 1941
8 Anze Peharc SLO 1925
9 Meichi Narasaki JPN 1875
10 Yufei Pan CHN 1764
11 Colin Duffy USA 1504.8
12 Toby Roberts GBR 1402
13 Dayan Akhtar GBR 1384.5
14 Yuji Fujiwaki JPN 1155
15 Jan-Luca Posch AUT 1028
16 Jack Macdougall GBR 991.3
17 Maximillian Milne GBR 950
18 Oren Prihed ISR 906
19 Rei Sugimoto JPN 870
20 Elias Arriagada Krüger GER 768.8
21 Thomas Lemagner FRA 764.3
22 Adrien Lemaire FRA 747
23 Samuel Richard FRA 738.7
24 Sam Avezou FRA 704.3
25 Hamish Mcarthur GBR 640
26 Julian Wimmer AUT 621.7
27 Thorben Perry Bloem GER 608
28 Nikolay Rusev BUL 605.8
29 Nicolai Uznik AUT 588.2
30 Jongwon Chon KOR 560
31 Nicolas Collin BEL 515.1
32 Guillermo Peinado Franganillo ESP 506.5
33 Yusuke Sugimoto JPN 506.3
34 Oscar Baudrand CAN 421.7
35 Lasse Von Freier GER 409
36 Leo Favot FRA 382
37 Nicolò Sartirana ITA 375
38 Antoine Girard FRA 370
39 Kento Yamaguchi JPN 353.2
40 Lukas Mokrolusky CZE 351
41 Ziqi Xu CHN 342.2
42 Daiki Sano JPN 338.2
43 Manuel Cornu FRA 319.5
44 Julien Clémence SUI 315.5
45 Max Bertone FRA 290
46 Lucas Trandafir GER 277
47 Tim Würthner GER 268.2
48 Cheung-Chi Shoji Chan HKG 240
49 Paul Brand NED 238.5
50 Adam Ondra CZE 230
51 Adi Bark ISR 223.5
52 Raffael Gruber AUT 213.8
53 Alexander Waller USA 204.3
54 Ardch Intrachupongse THA 199.8
55 Ido Fidel ISR 177
56 Benjamin Hanna USA 175.5
57 Luca Boldrini ITA 170
58 Levin Straubhaar SUI 165.3
59 Timotej Romšak SLO 165.2
60 Michael Piccolruaz ITA 159.4
61 Matteo Reusa ITA 145
62 Dylan Parks AUS 126.7
63 Jiahao Fu CHN 120
64 Adam Shahar USA 112.5
65 Max Kleesattel GER 111
66 Andreas Hofherr AUT 110.8
67 Yannick Flohé GER 105
68 Hugo Dorval CAN 85.8
69 Bharath Pereira IND 82.7
70 Felipe Ho Foganholo BRA 73.3
71 Nathan Whaley GBR 68
71 Nimród Sebestyén Tusnády HUN 68
73 Yejun Chon KOR 67.4
74 Matthew Rodriguez CAN 65.5
75 Vail Everett USA 63.5
76 Ravianto Ramadhan INA 57
77 Jinwei Yao CHN 52
78 Niccolò Antony Salvatore ITA 51.9
79 Chih-En Fan TPE 49.5
80 Hyunseung Noh KOR 48
81 Rodrigo Iasi Hanada BRA 44.3
82 Samuel Butterworth GBR 43.3
83 Maxim Pare AUS 41.5
84 Benjamin Vargas CHI 40.8
85 Slav Kirov BUL 40.5
86 Michael O'neill IRL 37
87 Darius Râpă ROU 35.5
87 Xuanpu Bai CHN 35.5
89 Joaquin Urrutia CHI 34.2
90 Ram Levin ISR 32
91 Joshua Gerhardt USA 28.2
92 Beomjin Park KOR 28
93 Corentin Laporte BEL 25.5
94 Raviandi Ramadhan INA 25
95 Noé Moutault FRA 24
96 Ali Salimian IRI 21.2
97 Diego Lequerica Buscaglia PER 21
98 Samuel Carlos Da Silva BRA 20
99 Edvards Gruzitis LAT 18.7
100 Alexandru-Florian Zaharia ROU 18.4
101 Thor Villegas García MEX 17
102 Roman Sivakov LTU 16.9
103 Leonardo Magallanes Tejada MEX 15
104 Simon Lorenzi BEL 14
105 Dragoș Gabriel Flueraru ROU 13.5
106 Luke Goh Wen Bin SGP 12.5
106 Gabriel Kern SWE 12.5
108 Timo Uznik AUT 11.5
109 Cozmo Rothfork USA 10.5
110 Gerald Bayo Verosil SGP 10
110 Jonathan Odiel Benitez Rodriguez HON 10
112 Davi Carvalho Peres BRA 9.5
112 Guy Mcnamee CAN 9.5
114 Sascha Lehmann SUI 9
114 Pedro Avelar BRA 9
114 Tamás Farkas HUN 9
117 Hugo Martín Álvarez ESP 8.5
118 Louis Guignard SUI 8.5
119 Alejo Suter ARG 8
119 Călin Enache ROU 8
121 Peter Kuric SVK 7.7
122 Pedro Henrique Namba De Araújo BRA 7.5
122 Ariel Flores Cheun ARG 7.5
122 Jan Stipek CZE 7.5
122 Christian Wagner CHI 7.5
126 Yaku Martin Galmez Uarez PER 7
126 Juan Sebastian Sanchez Martin COL 7
126 Cheuk-Hei Ho HKG 7
129 Isaac Leff USA 6.5
130 Javier Leonardo Aliaga Nina BOL 6
130 Tomás Arce COL 6
130 Timo Ossig GER 6
130 Albin Meyer SWE 6
134 Mykyta Myronenko UKR 5.8
135 Wan Tong Lok MAC 5.5
136 Dylan Smith CAN 5
136 Andrés Ortega Fosado MEX 5
136 Ariel Gonzalez CRC 5
136 Linus Qvarnström SWE 5
140 Emil Zimmermann GER 4.5
140 Iman Arezeh IRI 4.5
140 Tomas Casas CRC 4.5
140 Jair Octavio Moreno Montoya MEX 4.5
144 Ilja Auersperg AUT 4.4
145 Qun Tao Ke MAS 4
145 Tzu-Yu Chou TPE 4
145 Aj Goldsmith NZL 4
148 Vishak Oommen Shanker IND 3.5
149 Taher Alhaddad KSA 3
149 Man Hou Lam MAC 3
149 Yousef Fatani KSA 3
149 Tuukka Simonen FIN 3
149 Romain Sabatier SUI 3
149 Lukas Zgraggen SUI 3
155 Jakub Zietek POL 2
155 Martin Stranik CZE 2
155 Nathan Martin LUX 2
158 Kenu Puerta Wong PER 1
158 Mohammad Garakani IRI 1
158 Andrés Vila Andrés ESP 1
161 Paul Haider AUT 0.4
161 Julian Schrittwieser AUT 0.4