Defending champion Sean McColl (CAN), who won the event in 2012 and 2014, achieved his goal of a threepeat. „When I got through the first cut I kind of had to laugh at myself about assuring the podium again as I have won in 2012, got 3rd in 2013 and won again in 2014“, McColl says. “It’s always very exciting to be on the superboulder. Honestly I didn’t really know how it was going to go. I thought we would both make the jump at the first try and that it was going to be a race for the buzzer, so when I did the jump it was quite hard. Then when I heard the crowd’s reaction to Rei falling I looked over and checked, he definitely fell. I knew that it’s really hard to catch up on that type of boulder so I took my time, I relaxed and used more time than normal to the top, but I didn’t fall and that was it. I was pretty sure I wouldn’t fall if I could just get through it, so I was just trying to not make any errors.“
Asked about his secret of success McColl replies: „That I’m able to come back and perform so well every year has probably got something to do with the fact that I train for lead right after the bouldering season finishes while some of the competitors might stop climbing, because they have to have an off-season. Generally they will have an off-season just after the last world cup which was two months ago, whereas me, my off-season is in December after both seasons.“
Men:
1. Sean McColl (CAN)
2. Rei Sugimoto (JPN)