First international remote competition in sports climbing 16:16 on August 3
The International Sports Climbing Federation has opened a new challenge, where players from all over the world compete in their respective regions and play against each other remotely as the new coronavirus infection continues to spread.
The competition was published on the internet on the 3rd.
What was done was sports climbing, a competition speed for climbing a wall, which was realized by using a universal route installed on a wall with a height of 15 meters.
A total of 51 men and women from nine countries including Japan participated in the tournament, and by the end of last month, the players had climbed six times in each region for qualifying and final tournaments, and measured the time. I recorded it.
The League of Nations gathered footage from each country and decided the qualifying passers in chronological order. At the final tournament, the footage was composed on two screens, and it seemed that the players climbed in different places were playing.
In Japan, five teenagers participated in the competition on the 25th of last month in Tokyo, and all of them were not able to pass the qualifying round, but a high school in Miyagi prefecture aiming for the 2024 Paris Olympics 3 In the past year, So Takeda said, "It's an advanced and innovative tournament. I think it is a system that has a low risk of infection and can be done without compromising competitiveness."
Japan representative Hiroshi Yasui, head coach, pointed out the possibility of a remote competition, saying, "I knew that speed competition could be held remotely, so I felt it would be interesting in the future."