The IFSC European Youth Championships are taking place at the Edinburgh International Climbing Arena this weekend with a strong GB Junior team present to take on the best climbers in Europe.

The members of the GB junior climbing team have their work cut out this weekend as over 250 of Europe's best climbers descend on Edinburgh to compete for the title of European Champion in both the lead and speed disciplines.

The lead climbers will compete over three rounds, including a semi-final for the first time in a European Junior event - 2 qualifying routes and semi-final on Saturday and the finals will take place on Sunday morning.

The speed qualifications take place on Friday evening and the final on Sunday afternoon, making it an action packed weekend. There will be a basic webcast being shown, giving an overview of what is going on, but without specific routes being filmed and commentary and results.

To watch the webcast please click here.

The team representing GB Climbing this weekend are as follows:-

Lead discipline

Junior Male
Alex Waterhouse

Youth A Male
William Bosi
Angus Davidson
Jim Pope
Aiden Roberts

Youth B Male
Alex Norton
Sam Oakes
Kieran Forrest

Junior Female
Molly Thompson Smith
Tara Hayes

Youth A Female
Rebecca Kinghorn
Hannah Slaney

Youth B Female
Kitty Morrison
Issy Adams
Catrin Rose
Abbie Rivett

Speed discipline

Junior Male
Alex Waterhouse
Alex Bosi

A full timetable of events can be seen below:-

Friday 12th June
4.00–5.00pm Registration for speed at EICA
5.00–7.30pm Speed Qualifications
6.00–7.00pm Registration for lead at EICA
8.00 pm Technical meeting in the venue

Saturday 13th June
7.00am EICA opens
7.30am Video demonstration for all routes qualification starts
8.00am Start routes – 8 ROUTES  flash: all categories
3.00pm End of qualifications
3.30pm Results for semi-finals and starting order
4.00pm Opening Ceremony
5.30pm Isolation zone opens (all categories)
6.30pm Isolation zone closes (all categories)
7.30pm Semi-final starts (6 different routes ON SIGHT all categories)
9.30pm Semi-final finishes (all categories)
10.00pm EICA  closes

Sunday 14th June
7.30am Isolation zone opens (all categories)
8.30am Isolation zone closes (all categories)
9.00am Finals youth B female and male
10.20am Finals youth A female and male
11.40am Finals junior female and male
1.30pm Speed final round
3.30pm Awards ceremony - lead & speed

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