IFSC Asia Championship 2022 Highlights and Results

5C Team

IFSC Asia Championship 2022

The IFSC Asia Championship 2022 took place in Seoul Korea. There are 4 competition categories – boulder, lead, speed and boulder + lead. The boulder + lead category is a new format for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

Speed

Indonesia dominated speed climbing in 2022 and is the hot favourite to win. The Men’s Indonesia team has 6 out of 16 athletes in the Speed finals and the Women’s team has 3.

The Women’s Indonesian team took all 3 spots on the podium. However, for the men’s speed final, Korea’s Seungbeom Lee won gold by defeating all 3 of Indonesia’s top speed climbers. He beat Kiromal Katibin followed by Aspar Aspar and Veddriq Leonardo in the final climb.

Men’s Speed Finals Result

SEUNGBEOM LEE | KOR
VEDDRIQ LEONARDO | INA
ASPAR ASPAR | INA

Women’s Speed Finals Result

NURUL IQAMAH | INA
DESAK MADE RITA KUSUMA DEWI | INA
RAJIAH SALLSABILLAH | INA

Asian Championships 2022 – Speed Finals

Boulder

Japan has had some of the strongest boulderers in the IFSC competition for years. In this Asia Championship, the Japanese men’s team took all 3 spots on the podium. Tomoa Narasaki won with 3 tops and 4 zones to beat his compatriots Yoshiyuki Ogata and Katsura Konishi.

Men’s Boulder Finals Result

TOMOA NARASAKI | JPN
YOSHIYUKI OGATA | JPN
KATSURA KONISHI | JPN

Women’s Boulder Finals Result

FUTABA ITO | JPN
ZHILU LUO | CHN
CHAEHYUN SEO | KOR

Lead

The men’s lead event sees the Japanese team taking the top 3 spots. Making a clean sweep for both boulder and lead events. For the women’s lead event. We saw the return of Korea’s legend Kim Jain back after a 2 years hiatus. She looked just as good as she did when she last competed in 2019.

Men’s Lead Finals Result

TOMOA NARASAKI | JPN
YOSHIYUKI OGATA | JPN
KOKORO FUJII | JPN

Women’s Lead Finals Result

CHAEHYUN SEO | KOR
GAYEONG OH | KOR
JAIN KIM | KOR

Boulder and Lead Combined

Tomoa Narasaki finished 3rd in the combined boulder behind Yoshiyuki Ogata and Kokoro Fujii. However, he was able to make up the deficit by topping the lead route and edged Kokoro Fujii to win the combined finals. With this win, Tomoa Narasaki won all 3 events in the 2022 Asia Championship.