We are so proud of Team ABC Elite athlete Margo Hayes for her 8th place finish at the 2012 Youth World Championships! Margo was one of only 3 US Team members to make finals.

The competitors had to overcome some serious rainstorms and lots of extra downtime and what I imagine may have been less-than-ideal plastic conditions to try and earn their place on the podium.

Just making finals, as Margo did, is a huge achievement on the World level. Joining Margo in Female Youth B finals was American Claire Buhrfeind, who ended up in 6th. Between them was Margo’s neck-in-neck for the event, Molly Thompson-Smith of Great Britain.

The highest placing American (and the only other American to make finals) was Junior Male Sean Bailey, who got 5th. Nice job Sean!

Here are the full Team USA placements in lead:

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Female Junior

Michaela Kiersch- 16th

Cicada Jenerik – 17th

Shannon Lochridge – 21st

Nicole Hansen – 36th

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Male Junior

Owen Graham – 20th

Alex Fritz – 22nd

Josh Levin – 23rd

Noah Ridge – 25th

Andy Lamb – 29th

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Female Youth A

Kyra Condie – 17th

Jacquelyn Wu – 19th

Callie Walter – 29th

Amelia Metcalf – 39th

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Male Youth A

Sean Bailey – 5th – finalist

Dylan Barks – 11th

Nicholas Milburn – 27th

Dominic LaBarge – 41st

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Female Youth B

Claire Buhrfeind – 6th – finalist

Margo Hayes – 8th – finalist

Grace McKeehan – 14th

Rita Marsanova – 15th

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Male Youth B

Solomon Barth – 19th

Jesse Grupper – 24th

Brendan Mitchell – 25th

Cole Skinner – 41st

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Nice job to all the competitors at this incredible event!

We will share more as it comes in, for now to see full lead results click here – IFSC – International Federation of Sport Climbing: General result