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Ramon Julien Puigblanque from Spain and Bettina Schopf from Austria are the new European Champions. The two held off strong competition, in the form of Alexandre Chabot and Francois Auclair, and Natalija Gross and Katharina Saurvein, second and third respectively

At Lecco the Frenchman wins the European Bouldering Championship 2004, ahead of Andrew Earl from Great Britain and Gabriele Moroni from Italy.

Olga Bibik beats Anna Stöhr and Corinne Theroux to win the European Bouldering Championship 2004

Kilian Fischhuber and Sandrine Levet won the third stage of the Bouldering World Cup 2004in Fiera di Primiero last weekend

The second stage of the Italian Bouldering Cup 2004 took place at Gandino last weekend, as was won by Stefania De Grandi and Michele Caminati.

Alexander Chabot and Angela Eiter won the second stage of the World Cup Difficulty 2004 held in Imst, last weekend.

On Saturday 8 and Sunday 9 May, over 300 boulderers met up in the Italian Val di Mello and took part in the two-day international Bouldering event, organised by the Lombardy Mountain Guides.

Tomas Mrazek and Natalija Gros win the first stage of World Cup Difficulty 2004 in Puurs (BEL).

Kilian Fischhuber and Sandrine Levet have won the second stage of the bouldering World Cup 2004, held in Erlangen, Germany, last weekend.

The tenth edition of the ski mountaineering competition Tour du Rutor 2004 was won by Manfred Reichegger and Dennis Brunod and Gloriana Pellissier and Christiane Nex

The second edition of the international MonteRosaSkiRider takes place in Valle di Gressoney, Valle d’Aosta on 16-17/04/2004

UIAA Worldcup Birmingham (GBR) 2004. 02-04 April 2004. Sandrine Levet and Daniel Dulac win the first stage of the Bouldering World Cup 2004.

Despite appalling conditions the Sellaronda celebrated its 10th anniversary in the Dolomites last weekend and was won by Nicolini-Vescovo and Secco-Calliari

The Climbing World Cup 2004 Difficulty, Bouldering and Speed commence in less than six weeks time.

Evgenyy Kryvosheytsev (UKR) and Kirsten Buchmann (GER) have won the Ice-extreme boulder at Solcava (Slovenia).

On 24/01/2004 Ines Papert and Harald Berger won the Ice climbing World Championship 2004. Alexandre Matveev and Natalia Koulikova won the Speed event.