This weekend has seen the world’s bouldering elite descend on Stuttgart for a truly special competition. 55 athletes from more than 17 different countries were invited to adidas ROCKSTARS this year. Lead- and Bouldering-World Champions, overall winners and top climbers of the 2019 Bouldering World Cup and Olympic qualified athletes were invited to this unique event. They first had to make it through the qualification and semi-final. In the superfinals the athletes had to climb simultaneously an identical route on two sides of the same boulder: Futaba Ito (JPN) and Yoshiyuki Ogata (JPN) were able to climb faster than their opponents in the 1-vs-1 duel on the last boulder of the day and are now allowed to officially call themselves “adidas ROCKSTAR 2019”. - Florian Klingler (AUT) and Jongwon Chon (KOR) in the men’s and Janja Garnbret (SLO) and Ai Mori (JPN) in the women’s category can also be very satisfied with rank two and three respectively.

Results Men TOP6

1 - Yoshiyuki Ogata (JPN)
2 - Florian Klingler (AUT)
3 - Jongwon Chon (KOR)
4 - Kai Harada (JPN)
5 - Kokoro Fujii (JPN)
6 - Gregor Vezonik (SLO)