Rock Master

Rock Master artificial wall

Rock Master is an international climbing competition held every year in Arco.

The event takes place in two rounds: the first is an on-sight session and the second is called "after work". The final classification is given by the sum of the two events. On Friday the athletes are given a chance to survey the work route, and the actual climbing takes place on Saturday and Sunday.

History

The history of Rock Master is linked to that of the first international races in the history of climbing. In 1985 it was disputed for the first time Sportroccia to Bardonecchia. The following year the event was tied to a stop at the side of the Colodri of Arc. Right on the wall of the Colodri in 1987, played in the first Rock Master. The following year, the race left the rock and from that moment is played only on artificial in a large open space at the base of Colodri.

Since 1999, in addition to lead climbing, bouldering and speed climbing competitions were also held.

Since 2006, during the event a jury assigns Arco Rock Legends, two awards are like the Oscars of climbing:

• Salewa Rock Award with the athlete had the best performance of single pitch sport climbs and boulder
• La Sportiva Competition Award for the best athlete who has competed in the previous competition season.

The competition is usually held the first weekend of September, with a few exceptions:

• in 2010 has been brought forward to July as a pre-event of the World Championship of climbing that would take place in 2011. Instead of the usual two rounds (worked and view) a competition was held to only classical view in three rounds: qualifiers, semi-finals and finals.
• in 2011 instead of the Rock Master was held in July at the Arco Climbing World Championship in 2011 . The title of the Rock Master was, however, given the evidence of the Duel, a competition demonstration that took place at the end of the World Championship and attended the first sixteen male and female athletes of the league lead.^[1]

In 2012 the speed test was valid also as the fourth leg of the World Cup speed climbing 2012.^[2]

Winners

Lead

Year	Male	Female
1987	Stefan Glowacz	Lynn Hill
1988	Stefan Glowacz Patrick Edlinger	Lynn Hill
1989	Didier Raboutou	Lynn Hill
1990	François Legrand	Lynn Hill
1991	Yuji Hirayama	Isabelle Patissier
1992	Stefan Glowacz	Lynn Hill
1993	Elie Chevieux	Susi Good
1994	François Legrand	Robyn Erbesfield
1995	François Lombard	Laurence Guyon
1996	François Lombard	Katie Brown
1997	François Legrand	Katie Brown
1998	François Legrand	Liv Sansoz
1999	Eugeny Ovtchinnikov	Muriel Sarkany
2000	Eugeny Ovtchinnikov	Muriel Sarkany
2001	Christian Bindhammer Tomáš Mrázek Yuji Hirayama	Muriel Sarkany Martina Cufar
2002	Alexandre Chabot	Sandrine Levet
2003	Alexandre Chabot	Angela Eiter
2004	Alexandre Chabot	Angela Eiter
2005	Ramón Julián Puigblanque	Angela Eiter
2006	Ramón Julián Puigblanque	Sandrine Levet
2007	Ramón Julián Puigblanque	Angela Eiter
2008	Patxi Usobiaga	Johanna Ernst
2009	Ramón Julián Puigblanque	Angela Eiter
2010	Ramón Julián Puigblanque	Jain Kim
2011	-	-
2012	Ramón Julián Puigblanque	Angela Eiter
2013	Ramón Julián Puigblanque	Mina Markovič

Bouldering

Year	Male	Female
1999	Daniel Andrada	Elena Choumilova
2000	Tomasz Oleksy	Natalia Novikova
2001	Salavat Rakhmetov	Corinne Théroux
2002	Mauro Calibani	Ol'ga Jakovleva
2003	Mauro Calibani	Olga Bibik
2004	Matthias Müller	Mélanie Son
2005	Kilian Fischhuber	Mélanie Son
2006	Nalle Hukkataival	Anna Stöhr
2007	Gareth Parry	Anna Stöhr
2008	Kilian Fischhuber	Katharina Saurwein
2009	Kilian Fischhuber	Alizée Dufraisse
2010	Cédric Lachat	Anna Stöhr
2011	-	-
2012	Dmitrij Šarafutdinov	Alex Puccio
2013	Rustam Gelmanov	Alex Puccio

Speed

Year	Male	Female
1999	Vladimir Zakharov
2000	Alexei Gadeev
2001	Iakov Soubotine
2002	Tomasz Oleksy
2003	Alexei Gadeev
2004	Tomasz Oleksy
2005	Tomasz Oleksy
2006	Sergey Sinitsyn
2007	Evgenij Vajcechovskij
2008	Manuel Escobar	Olena Ryepko
2009	Libor Hroza	Edyta Ropek
2010	Libor Hroza	Cuilian He
2011	-	-
2012	Leonardo Gontero	Alina Gaydamakina
2013	Libor Hroza	Alina Gaydamakina
2014	Libor Hroza	Anouck Jaubert

Duel

Year	Male	Female
2011	Adam Ondra	Yana Chereshneva
2012	Jakob Schubert	Dinara Fakhritdinova
2013	Sean McColl	Dinara Fakhritdinova
2014	Sean McColl	Dinara Fakhritdinova
2015	Adam Ondra	Hélène Janicot

Arco Rock Legends

Year	Salewa Rock Award	La Sportiva Competition Award
2006	Josune Bereziartu	Angela Eiter
2007	Patxi Usobiaga	David Lama
2008	Adam Ondra	Maja Vidmar
2009	Chris Sharma	Kilian Fischhuber
2010	Adam Ondra	Akiyo Noguchi
2011	Adam Ondra	Ramón Julián Puigblanque
2012	Sasha DiGiulian	Anna Stöhr
2013	Adam Ondra	Mina Markovič
2014	Muriel Sarkany	Urko Carmona Barandiaran
2015	Alexander Megos	Adam Ondra

References

1. Vinicio Stefanello. "Rock Master Gran Galà – Duel". arco2011.it. Retrieved 1 April 2013.
2. "Speed World Cup, historic victory for Leonardo Gontero and Gaydamakina". planetmountain.com. 1 September 2012. Retrieved 1 April 2013.

Bibliography

• Malfer, Giulio; Stefanello, Vinicio (2005). Rock Master. Nicolodi. ISBN 978-8884471949.

External links

• Official site