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planetFear BLCC 2008 Results

© Dave Pickford 2008
Dave Pickford & Nick Colton

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Following the success of the 2007 BLCC held at the Blackpool Towers, last weekend the planetFear British lead Climbing Championships returned to Britain's most unusual climbing wall. Despite being subject to continual gale force winds howling down off Morecambe Bay, we saw two days of extremely impressive performances from Britain's top competition climbers and rock athletes.

Full report and photo essay on planetFear.com

Saturday Results:

Female Junior
1st Shauna Coxsey
2nd Kitty Wallace
3rd Rebbecca Hall

Male Junior
1st Jonathan Stocking
2nd Luke Tilley
3rd Ross Kirkland

Male Veteran
1st Nick Colton
2nd Ian Dunn
3rd Mike Watson

The Senior Finals - by Nick Colton

The senior female route was another powerfully steep route. Hannah Beresford was first out and set the standard before Audrey Seguy eventually managed to get just beyond her high point by the smallest of margins.

The senior male final was an immensely long route. In its lower part it consisted of the tufa route used in previous categories with a few key holds removed for good measure. It then continued to the very top of the steepest leg via a series of tenuous moves on small holds! The top three men reached the same point. However, Gareth Parry won on count back to retain his title.

Full result tables on the BMC website

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dirtbag1
27 May, 2008
If anyone's interested there's a video of some rock god(?) vogue-ing his way up the final route here.... http://www.homemadeclimbingstuff.com/Videos.htm Drew.
Richard Bradley
27 May, 2008
Good effort!
dirtbag1
28 May, 2008
If you'd trained as hard as the competitors in that event and put your heart and soul into it you'd understand her disappointment. Add to this that fact she is very young, these competitions and disappointments associated with them are often hard to take with a smile. Please show some respect for this girl as she climbed wonderfully on day and deserves to be praised and acknowledged for that only. I'm glad you had a good couple of days and look forward to hopefully seeing you there next year. D
Robertostallioni
28 May, 2008
Raised a similar question myself on the mens first route after touching the last hold, but it only counts if you touch the USABLE part of the hold....
Bill Davidson
28 May, 2008
Hmmmmm, I'll have to remember & pass that one on!
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