Rei Sugimoto wins World Cup event for first bouldering title in five years
Rei Sugimoto won his first title in five years at the IFSC World Cup bouldering competition on Saturday, as four of the top six places went to Japanese climbers in the men's event held in Vail, Colorado. In the penultimate event of the seven-stage bouldering ...
Sport climbing gaining hold ahead of 2020 Tokyo Olympics
The Olympics have the power to turn obscure sports into much bigger attractions once they've been included on the program for the global sports extravaganza. So the announcement two years ago that sport climbing — which combines bouldering, lead climbing and speed climbing — would ...
Rei Sugimoto and Miho Nonaka took second in the men's and women's bouldering competitions, respectively, at the penultimate round of the IFSC Climbing World Cup tour held Sunday. Sugimoto finished behind South Korea's Chon Jong-won to secure a podium spot for the first time this ...
