MEN BOOK BOULDER PLACE FOR FINAL FLOURISH
Seoul,South Korea – The stage is set for a thrilling men’s boulder final at the 2025 IFSC Climbing World Championships in Seoul,as competitors battled through a tense semi-final round today. Anraku and Lee secured spots alongside Austria’s Jan-Luca Posch,who qualified in second with a score of 84.8 points, and France’s Mejdi Schalck, who finished fourth with 84.2 points.
Posch initially led the semi-final, holding the top score of 84.3 points until overtaken by Anraku and Lee. “It’s surreal,” Posch stated after the round. “I imagined myself in a World Championships final so many times, and now it has happened it just feels surreal.” He credited the first boulder as being particularly suited to his style,allowing him to build momentum throughout the round. Posch, a veteran of World Cup finals, hopes to “extract everything I have inside me and express myself on the wall” in the final.
The final four spots were highly contested, ultimately decided by a combination of tops and attempts. Japanese siblings Meichi (69.4 points, eighth place) and Tomoa Narasaki (69.8 points, fifth place) both qualified. Great Britain’s Jack MacDougall (69.7 points, sixth place) and Germany’s thorben Perry Bloem (69.6 points,seventh place) will also compete in their first-ever world level final.
MacDougall and Bloem will be inspired by the recent success of USA’s Melina Costanza, who secured a bronze medal in the women’s Boulder competition in her own first world final appearance. All top four semi-finalists topped at least three boulders.
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