My parents and I drove to Chamonix the Tuesday before the competition. We had a nice restday at the lake of Annecy and arrived in Chamonix on Thursday. I enjoyed meeting everyone again at the opening ceremony. The mens qualfication round had already taken place earlier that day. We heard that Loïc Timmermans from Belgium was placed 26th in the semi-final, due to slipping in his 2nd qualification route.

While climbing my first qualification route the next day I was really nervous and did not climb fluently. Nevertheless I was able to top out.. I was less nervous for climbing the 2nd route and I was very happy when I reached the top.

The next day was the semi-final. When I started climbing I was very surprised because the holds were so bad. I was pumped very fast and could not recuperate anymore. I fell quite early in the route because I was so tired. It was quite disappointing, but I learned a lot of this competition. 😉 I ended up 19th.

Climbing in Chamonix

Congratulations to Loïc for his 14th place and Mathilde who climbed really well and became 6th in the finals! Elodie Orbaen took the 1st place in the paraclimbing competition! Well done!

Loïc and Mathilde in their semi-final