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Akiyo Noguchi and Sean McColl win the adidas Rockstars 2014

The adidas Rockstars 2014 was won in Stuttgart, Germany, by Akiyo Noguchi and Sean McColl. Mina Marcovic and Jongwon Chon placed second, Petra Klingler and Jernej Kruder third.

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September 2014

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Sean McColl vs Jongwon Chon in the Superfinal of the adidas Rockstars 2014

Elias Holzknecht

70 athletes from 20 different countries took part in the adidas Rockstars bouldering competition that was won last night in Stuttgart's Porsche Arena by Japan's Akiyo Noguchi and Canada's Sean McColl.

After Friday's qualifiers and the Semifinal on Saturday morning, McColl competed in the intense and selective final along with James Kassay (AUS), Rei Sugimoto (JPN), Jernej Kruder (SLO), Jongwon Chon (KOR) and Rustam Gelmanov (RUS). In the end McColl qualified for the Superfinal along with the surprise of the competition, 18-year old Jongwon Chon from Korea. The two then battled it out on the superfinal problem, a parrelle, identical boulder on which the two climed simultaneously. So simultaneaously that McColl, despite slipping, hit the buzzer only milliseconds before the Korean.

In the women's event, Noguchi qualified for the final along with Mina Markovic (SLO), Petra Klingler (SUI), Shauna Coxsey (GBR), Melissa Le Neve (FRA) and Mathilde Becerra (FRA) and then, in the Superfinal against Markovic, managed to pull away right from the outset and hit the buzzer first.

Results male
1 Sean McColl CAN
2 Jongwon Chon KOR
3 Jernej Kruder SLO
4 Rei Sugimoto JPN
5 James Kassay AUS
6 Rustam Gelmanov RUS
7 Jeremy Bonder FRA
8 Sachi Amma JPN
9 Jakob Schubert AUT
10 Gabriele Moroni ITA

Female
1 Akiyo Noguchi JPN
2 Mina Markovic SLO
3 Petra Klingler SUI
4 Shauna Coxsey GBR
5 Melissa Le Neve FRA
6 Mathilde Becerra FRA
7 Sol Sa KOR
8 Risa Ota JPN
9 Julija Kruder SLO
10 Fanny Gibert FRA