The IFSC Pan-American Championships are finally here. Probably the most eagerly awaited of the five continental championships, as this is the final chance for American and Canadian athletes to earn their qualifying spot at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

Alannaha Yip of Canada took 1st place and got the last pan-american Olympic spot! See how it happened by checking the finals results here. Congratulations to Alannah. It was a tough competition and she didn't get the best start during pre-quals and then qualifiers.

The event is being held at Sender One in Los Angeles - a world class climbing venue. It features massive 50 foot high lead wall, a huge and varied bouldering area with regular setting, and "Sender City" which is a clip-n-climb autobelay area with more "fun climb" style walls aimed at kids.

IFSC Pan-American Championships 2020 - Welcome to L.A.

Watch this video on YouTube Introduction to Sender One in Los Angeles - The venue for the IFSC Pan-American Championships

The competition itself is taking place over five days. The full schedule can be found here. Pre-Qualifying rounds took place on the 25th, and only the top 20 from pre-qualifying go into the qualifying rounds, with a limit of four from each country per gender category. Results below.

There are over 20 starters for each gender category. The USA has five men and five women, Canada has two men and five women.The current best way to get scoring is the IFSC WC Series app on android or iOS.

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Only one place is available per gender category - meaning very stiff competition. Sean McColl already has one spot for Canada though there is still space for another male. Alannah Yip seems like the most likely Canadian Woman to get the last spot in this event.

For the USA there are no spots left for Women as both Kyra Condie and Brooke Raboutou have qualified. Nathaniel Coleman just squeezed in to the Olympic Spot so there is still one place left for USA Men. Sean Bailey, Colin Duffy, Zach Galla, and Zander Waller all got through to the qualifying rounds placing 2nd to 5th one after another. It will be very tight competition between these team mates and the pressure will definitely be felt here.

IFSC Pan-American Championships Pre Qualification Results

The 20 for each category that go through from pre-qualifiers to qualifiers are in bold below. Joe Goodacre and Callie Close of the USA didn't go through as only four from each country can move on.

Male Qualifiers 1st - Carlos Granja - Ecuador

2nd - Sean Bailey - USA

3rd - Colin Duffy - USA

4th - Zach Galla - USA

5th - Zander Waller - USA

6th - Joe Goodacre - USA

7th - Danny Valencia - Ecuador

8th - Cesar Grosso - Brazil

9th - Felipe Ho Foganholo - Brazil

10th - Santiago Garcia - Argentina

11th - Ronny Escobar - Chile

12th - Hector Lopez Valdez - Mexico

13th - Diego Lequerica - Peru

14th - José Ramón Santos Buhl - Mexico

15th - Brennan Doyle - Canada

16th - Héctor Adrián Martínez Cordero - Mexico

17th - Benjamin Ayala - Chile

18th - Manuel Escobar- Venezuela

19th - Jason Holowach - Canada

20th - Pedro Ferreira Nicoloso - Brazil

21st - Jean Ouriques - Brazil

22nd - Alejandro Martinez Cordero - Mexico Full results and scoring Female Qualifiers 1st - Valentina Aguado - Argentina

2nd - Leslie Romero - Venezuela

3rd - Alejandra Contreras - Chile

4th - Norah Chi - USA

5th - Andrea Rojas - Ecuador

6th - Emma Hunt - USA

7th - Lauren Bair - USA

8th - Sienna Kopf - USA

9th - Alannah Yip - Canada

10th - Rebecca Frangos - Canada

11th - Carmen Contreras - Chile

12th - Callie Close - USA

13th - Muykuay Silva - Chile

14th - Allison Vest - Canada

15th - Bianca Magalhaes de Castro - Brazil

16th - Thais Makino Shiraiwa - Brazil

17th - Arantza Fernández Gutierrez - Mexico

18th - Luana Riscado - Brazil

19th - Valeria Macias Ferreira - Mexico

20th - María Fernanda González Rámirez - Mexico

21st - Arantza Luna Velasco - Mexico

22nd - Hellen Christina Da Silva - Brazil

23rd - Noelia Venet Gallegos - Peru

24th - Rebeca Consuelo Aguilar Chaw - Peru

25th - Sofia Alejandra Herrera Vega Centeno - Peru

Did Not Start - Carola Castro Barbaran - Peru Full results and scoring

IFSC Pan-American Championships Qualification Results

The Women's qualifiers took place on Thursday 27th with Emma Hunt of the USA taking 1st place in Speed, followed by Andrea Rojas of Ecuador 2nd. In Bouldering it was an interestingly close set of results as four climbers got four tops and four zones. Valentina Aguado of Argentina managed all four in only six attempts (!) to take 1st, with Alejandra Contreras of Chile a close second, then Rebecca Frangos of Canada 3rd.

Emma Hunt set a new US Women's Speed Record with 8.05 seconds in the speed qualification!

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In Lead it was Lauren Bair of USA who managed to get the highest with 52+. There was another instance of one hard move with the move from 45 to 46 taking five climbers down, all getting a score of 45+. Norah Chi of USA go the lowest time and took second, and Alannah Yip 3rd with Rebecca Frangos of Canada on the same hold with a lower time meaning a 4th place in Lead.

The totaled scores mean that Lauren Bair of USA, Alejandra Contreras of Chile, Valentina Aguado of Argentina, Norah Chi and Emma Hunt of USA, as well as Alannah Yip of Canada will go the finals on Saturday 29th. Names in bold below of the eight that go through to Finals.

The Men's Qualifying finished on Friday. In Speed Carlos Granja and Danny Valencia of Ecuador came first and second respectively, with Zach Galla of the USA third. The Bouldering round saw a brilliant set of challenging problems with Sean Bailey of the USA getting four tops and four zones to take first, then Zander Walla also of the USA taking second with three tops and four zones. Zach Galla also of the USA took third.

In the final round - Lead - Colin Duffy of the USA took 1st with the only top. A really really impressive win that just edged him into the top three qualifiers overall. Sean Bailey was second with 58+, way ahead of the rest of the pack. In 3rd was Danny Valencia of Ecuador with 47.

In the end Sean Bailey, Zach Galla and Colin Duffy of the USA took the top three qualification places but all four guys from the USA are in finals! Brennan Doyle of Canada unfortunately came in just outside of the top eight.

The top eight from each category go forward to the finals - highlighted in bold below. Women's Finals are Saturday 29th Feb and Men's finals are Sunday 1st March. The scoring is the climber's placing in each category, multiplied together - lowest number wins. i.e. Lauren Bair was 5th in Speed, 4th Bouldering, 1st Lead so 5 x 4 x 1 = 20.

Women's Qualification Results 1st - Lauren Bair - USA - 20

2nd - Alejandra Contreras - Chile - 36

3rd - Valentina Aguado - Argentina - 54

4th - Norah Chi - USA - 112

5th - Emma Hunt - USA - 130

6th - Alannah Yip - Canada - 168

7th - Andrea Rojas - Ecuador - 176

8th - Rebecca Frangos - Canada - 192

9th - Sienna Kopf - USA - 264

10th - Carmen Contreras - Chile - 750

11th - Allison Vest - Canada - 882

12th - Leslie Romero - Venezuela - 1500

13th - Muykuay Silva - Chile - 2016

14th - Arantza Fernández Gutierrez - Mexico - 2431

15th - Thais Makino Shiraiwa - Brazil - 2448

16th - Bianca Magalhaes de Castro - Brazil - 2550

17th - Valeria Macias Ferreira - Mexico - 4212

18th - Arantza Luna Velasco - Mexico - 5054

19th - María Fernanda González Rámirez - Mexico - 5472

DNS - Luana Riscado - BRA - Did Not Start Full results here Men's Qualification Results 1st - Sean Bailey - USA - 14

2nd - Zach Galla - USA - 45

3rd - Colin Duffy - USA - 55

4th - Carlos Granja - Ecuador - 56

5th - Danny Valencia - Ecuador - 78

6th - Zander Waller - USA - 80

7th - José Ramón Santos Buhl - Mexico - 390

8th - Cesar Grosso - Brazil - 396

9th - Brennan Doyle - Canada - 660

10th - Felipe Ho Foganholo - Brazil - 810

11th - Jason Holowach - Canada - 952

12th - Manuel Escobar - Venezuela - 1064

13th - Diego Lequerica - Peru - 1792

14th - Héctor Adrián Martínez Cordero - MEX - 2496

15th - Hector LOPEZ VALDEZ - Mexico - 3240

16th - Benjamin Ayala - Chile - 3240

17th - Jean Ouriques - Brazil - 3420

18th - Santiago GARCIA - Argentina - 4800

19 - Pedro Ferreira Nicoloso - Brazil - 5491

DNS - Ronny Escobar - Chile - Did Not Start Full results here

IFSC Pan-American Championships Final Results

The finals will be on the 1st of March for Men's. We will update this article as results come in.

In the Women's Finals we started with Speed in the head to hear format. Andrea Rojas of Ecuador took 1st with 8.45 seconds, Valentina Aguado of Argentina coming in second. Alejandra Contreras took third and Rebecca Frangos of Canada fourth.

In Bouldering it was Alannah Yip of Canada that managed to pull ahead with the most tops in the least attempts - meaning she went in to Lead with the lowest total score (a good thing). She was the only climber to manage three tops. Emma Hunt came in 2nd with two tops and three zones, and Alejandra Contreras third with the same though more attempts.

In Lead Lauren Bair managed the only top of route in an amazing show. Due to what we knew of the scoring, Alannah Yip just had to make the 53rd hold to get second or third in Lead (she got third eventually) - to win the entire event. She managed this, getting a 53+ for attempting to make 54.

Alannah Yip of Canada wins the Olympics invite!

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Women's Final Results 1st - Alannah Yip - Canada - 15

2nd - Alejandra Contreras - 36

3rd - Lauren Bair - USA - 36

4th Andrea Rojas - Ecuador - 56

5th - Rebecca Frangos - Canada - 80

6th - Norah Chi - USA - 80

7th - Valentina Aguado - 84

8th - Emma Hunt - USA - 112 Ties in placing for 2nd/3rd and 5th/6th were decided by Qualifiers placing Full results here Men's Final Results Colin Duffy gets the Olympic Invite! This article will be updated very soon with full results.



The full event page with results from the qualifying and final rounds can be found here.

Watch IFSC Pan-American Championships Live

You can watch the finals live stream below and as a video after the event has finished. They will also be broadcast live on the Panam sports channel in some Pan-American countries. CBC Online will be broadcasting live online for Canada. The NBC Olympic Channel will be showing the finals after the event with the Women’s final on 1st March at 19.00 and 2nd March at 12.30, and the Men’s Final on 2nd March at 18.00 and 3rd March at 12.30.

IFSC Pan-American Championships Men's Finals Live Stream



Watch this video on YouTube Watch the Men's Finals live stream - Starting at around midday Sunday March 1st

IFSC Pan-American Championships Women's Finals Live Stream + Video

IFSC Pan-American Championships 2020 - WOMEN - Finals

Watch this video on YouTube Watch the Women's Finals live stream replay

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