The climber Leander Carmanns has become vice world champion in the speed and gave Germany the first World Cup medal of its history in the discipline.
A few days before his 21st birthday, the Mönchengladbacher native was only defeated by the Chinese Jianguo Long in the final fight in the Korean capital Seoul.
Speed climbing was the first to be Olympic in Paris last year in Paris, and in 2028 in Los Angeles it was again about medals.
When climbing speed, athletes have to conquer a 15 -meter -high and slightly overhanging wall with standardized grip sequences.
Carmanns managed this in the round of 16 in 4.86 seconds, which meant European record. In the final he lacked 19 hundredths of a second of gold.