UKC

This year's World Champions:Men lead: Patxi Usobiaga Lakunza, ESPWomen lead: Johanna Ernst, AUTMen bouldering: Alexey Rubtsov, RUSWomen bouldering: Yulia Abramchuk, RUSMen speed: Qixin Zhong, CHNWomen speed: Cuilian He, CHNPhotos: Björn Pohl, Mountain.ru, Desnivel and IFSC-Climbing

Read more at http://www.ukclimbing.com/news/item.php?id=54811

Some of these replies were posted on Björn's old blog website, and so won't be from registered UKC users

Bjorn - There are some reasonable pictures on ukclimbing.com (in turn sourced from mountain.ru)

From that angle it could be any of Alexei Rubtsov, Rustam Gelmanov or Dmitri Sharafudtinov! Perhaps this explains the success of the Russian Team - Cloning Technology?

(I think it is Alexei)

Alexie Rubtsov looks remarkably like Guillame Glaron Mondet (FRA)

Ah... thanks Tim. It was tagged as Alexey R, but, obviously, you're right. I'm not sure the new photo is correct either, but at least it's a Russian If anyone has a decent photo of the man, please share it!