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The first ParaClimbing Speed World Championship took place in Arco today. 33 athletes from 11 different countries took part in the event.

Today 30 adventure athletes set out from Salzburg on the race of their lives: the Red Bull X-Alps.

Dmitry Sharafutdinov from Russia and Anna Stöhr from Austria are the new Boulder World Champions! Silver for Adam Ondra & Sasha DiGiulian, bronze for Rustam Gelmanov & Juliane Wurm. Two beautiful finals at the IFSC World Championship in Arco, Italy

Shauna Coxsey & Francesca Metcalf are the first Bouldering Semifinalists at the IFSC Climbing World Championship in Arco.

All the hot favourites qualify for the Semi-final. The provisional ranking is led by Hori (JPN) and Lachat (SUI). Others to qualify include the Italians Preti, Moroni and Scarperi, as well as Ondra (Cze) and Fischhuber (Aut).

As mentioned, the Planetmountain team is in Arco to follow the IFSC World Championship live.

The IFSC World Championship kicks off in Arco and expectations for this great sport event are simply enormous.

The first stage of the Lead World Cup 2011 was won by Jakob Schubert. Four women shared victory: Caroline Ciavaldini, Angela Eiter, Mina Markovic and Jain Kim.

Chrigel Maurer is the most successful paragliding pilot of our days and the titleholder of Red Bull X-Alps. In 3 days, the Red Bull X-Alps 2011 will start in Salzburg. In the following interview, we asked Chrigel Maurer 12 questions.

The first stage of the Lead World Cup 2011 started in Chamonix this morning, along with the Speed event.

The IOC Executive Board announced yesterday that sport climbing has been shortlisted for the 2020 Olympic Games along with seven other sports. This is a fundamental step towards the main goal set by the IFSC International Federation of Sport Climbing and all rock climbers. The news arrives ahead of one...

Austrian Kilian Fischhuber has won the Sheffield stage of the Bouldering World Cup 2011 and in doing so he has won this 5th overall World Cup. The women's event was won by won by Akiyo Noguchi.

The video report by Udo Neumann of the 7th stage of the Bouldering World Cup 2011 in Barcelona, won by Akiyo Noguchi and Guillaume Glairon Mondet.

All the finals of the IFSC Climbing World Championship in Arco 2011 will be broadcast live on Rai Sport 1 and Rai Sport 2

Guillaume Glairon-Mondet from France and Akiyo Noguchi from Japan win the seventh stage of the Bouldering World Cup 2011 in Barcelona with 2 and 4 tops in the Finals

The intense Bouldering World Cup 2011 continues in Barcelona on Saturday.