The final round of this season was held in Austria on the 24th of the World Cup for sports climbing and bouldering, and the women's Tokyo Olympic silver medalist Miho Nonaka came in third.
As a result, Nonaka, who made it to the podium in three of the six World Cup races this season, came in second in the annual ranking.
Bouldering in sport climbing is an event in which you compete for how many courses you have climbed within the time limit, which is called a "task".
The final round of the World Cup this season in Innsbruck, Austria, was held on the 24th, when the women's final, in which six players competed, was held, and three Japanese players participated.
Nonaka, who has been on the podium twice so far this season, completed the first task in one, but could not complete the second and third tasks to the end.
Even so, I climbed the final 4th task and finished in 3rd place, and was on the podium for the first time in 2 tournaments.
In the other Japanese teams, Futaba Ito was in 4th place after climbing one task, and Saki Kikuchi was in 6th place because he couldn't finish all four tasks.
The winner was Natalia Grossman of the United States, who had completed all the challenges.
In the Bouldering World Cup, all the games of the women's season have ended, and Nonaka, who was on the podium in 3 out of 6 races, came in 2nd in the annual ranking.
The overall champion of the year was an American Grossman, who showed overwhelming strength to win the championship in five races excluding the opening race.
Nonaka "I gradually regained my sense of climbing"
Miho Nonaka, who finished 3rd in the final round of the World Cup in sports climbing and bouldering, said, "I was a little disappointed because the development was not as I expected until the third task, but I still have a chance in the final task. I knew there was one, so I'm glad I was able to decide there. "
Regarding this season, which ended in 2nd place in the annual ranking, "I was desperate at the beginning of the season and I was very worried about what would happen this season, but I gradually regained my sense of climbing. I'm really happy to be on the podium of the annual ranking, "he recalled with a smile.
From the 25th, this season's World Cup of Reed, who competes for the height of climbing the wall, will start, but Nonaka will not participate, so he said, "I'm back in Japan and I'm doing a solid second type of compound training. I'm thinking of doing this, "he said, looking ahead to the Paris Olympics two years after the" combined "competition between bouldering and reed.