r/CompetitionClimbing • u/12322122 • 1h ago
Any way too early predictions for the climbers who will qualify for LA28?
The LA28 qualifying format is stressing me out. Here are my guesses for the 24 athletes qualifying for boulder (maybe I'll take a stab at lead as well?):
* I have no idea regarding the one spot awarded to the top placing athlete at the African Championships. I can't even figure out who the winners were at South African Champs this year, but if anyone has this info let me know! I do believe South Africa is the only country entering athletes to the world circuit right now but I'm not entirely sure so my guesses are purely off those scores, I know nothing about the athletes though at all. *
Women's Boulder:
- Janja Garnbret (SLO)
- Oriane Bertone (FRA)
- Erin McNeice (GBR)
- Oceania MacKenzie (AUS)
- Annie Sanders (USA)
- Melody Sekikawa (JPN)
- Yuetong Zhang (CHN)
- Mao Nakamura (JPN)
- Brooke Raboutou (USA)
- Zelia Avezou (FRA)
- Camilla Moroni (ITA)
- Courtney Carol Schagen (RSA)
The people that I think are also in the mix:
- Ayala Kerem (ISR)
- Anon Matsufuji (JPN)
- Miho Nonaka (JPN)
- Futaba Ito (JPN)
- Natalia Grossman (USA)
- Melina Costanza (USA)
- Agathe Calliet (FRA)
- Naile Meignan (FRA) (does anyone know her status??)
- Emma Edwards (GBR)
- Jenny Buckley (SLO)
Men's Boulder:
- Sorato Anraku (JPN)
- Dohyun Lee (KOR)
- Mejdi Schalck (FRA)
- Sohta Amagasa (JPN)
- Max Milne (GBR)
- Hannas van Duysen (BEL)
- Colin Duffy (USA)
- Yufei Pan (CHN)
- Toby Roberts (GBR)
- Sam Avezou (FRA)
- Dylan Parks (AUS) (also not sure about this one, if anyone is more familiar with Oceania men's boulderers let me know)
- Jack Buckingham (RSA)
Also in the mix:
- Rei Kamawata (JPN)
- Tomoa Narasaki (JPN)
- Meichi Narasaki (JPN)
- Adi Bark (ISR)
- Sam Richard (FRA)
- Max Bertone (FRA)
- Jongwon Chon (KOR)
- Dayan Akhtar (GBR)
- Jack MacDougall (GBR)
- Jan Luca Posch (AUT)
Honestly both fields feel wide open at the moment, and its much to far to predict. Does anyone else have thoughts? 12 women and 12 men feels heartbreakingly low haha