2009 World Cup Boulder - Eindhoven, Netherlands
Photos by Jörg Paschke - On June 12-14, 2009, the World Cup Bouldering came to Eindhoven in the Netherlands. With an audience of more than 1000 enthusiastic fans and a professional organization team, the scene of the games – a former factory building – turned into a place full of suspense until the last minute. The route setting crew gave their best efforts to reveal champions: Austrian Kilian Fischhuber succeeded to take the winner's position over Russian Rustam Gelmanov, who held the lead since the beginning of the season, and Akiyo Noguchi from Japan won the gold in the women's final. The Boulder World Cup 2009 in Eindhoven has shown that bouldering should in fact be part of the Olympic sport disciplines as declared by Erica Terpstra, chairman of the Dutch Olympic Committee, at the end of the finals.