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The 2016 Bouldering World Cup comes to an end. The Bavarian city of Munich will host the 7th and last stage, in which most of the Overall Ranking will be decided.

The World Cup in Munich is year after year one of the brightest highlights of the season. Amazing venue, the Olympic Stadium, big crowds and hundreds of climbers. This year almost 240 athletes registered to compete. The biggest event of the year so far.

5 of the 6 medals given to the best overall performers are still up for grabs. Shauna Coxsey secured the gold in Vail but Miho Nonaka, Melissa Le Neve and Akiyo Noguchi are still in the fight for silver and bronze.

There are 3 candidates to the male overall: Kokoro Fujii, who leads the board after Vail, Tomoa Narasaki and Alexey Rubtsov. Rustam Gelmanov, Jongwon Chon and Sean McColl can still get the bronze.

Surprisingly McColl is not on the starting list, I don’t know exactly why, maybe he’s saving himself for Paris. Other big names missing are Jorg Verhoeven, Megan Mascarenas, Nathaniel Coleman and Janja Garnbret.

But don’t worry, there’s plenty of talent on the list. The Japanese, Russian, Austrian, German, French and British team, to name a few, look numerous and strong.

You can check the entire starting list here.

Route Setters

Matthieu Dutray from France will be the Chief Route Setter. He will be assisted by Percy Bishton and Robert Heinrich.

Schedule

Munich is in the UTC+2 time zone.

12 August

08:00 – Male Qualifiers

16:30- Female Qualifiers

13 August

11:30 – Semifinals (live at ifsc-climbing.org)

18:30 – Finals (live at ifsc-climbing.org)

More info at the IFSC event page