More than 40 young climbers from all over New Zealand congregated in the resort, vying for honours in the Climbing New Zealand (CNZ) lead, top rope and boulder categories, for U11, U13 and U15.
Held over two days, athletes were put through their paces on specially designed courses at Frankton’s Basecamp Adventures climbing centre, where they each had four qualifying climbs, with a time limit of six minutes per climb.
Instead of finals, aggregate scoring across the four climbs determined the national champions.
Results:
U11 female: 1st, Maya Bateman (Canterbury), 2nd, Aisha Scott (Canterbury); U11 male: 1st, Bear Borman (Auckland), 2nd, Aleskei Dergilev (Auckland), 3rd, Axel Anderson (other); U13 female: 1st, Nina Fookes (Auckland), 2nd, Lucy Barraud (other), 3rd, Olivia Chellet (Canterbury); U13 male, 1st, Mikhail Dergilev (Auckland), 2nd, Hamish McLaughlin (Rotorua), 3rd, Xavier Faber (Bay of Plenty); U15 female: 1st, Yume Fookes (Auckland), 2nd, Ayla Radley (Bay of Plenty), 3rd, Anna Evans (Canterbury); U15 male: 1st, Hugo Harkness (Wellington), 2nd, Brooklyn Jackson-Gers (Rotorua), 3rd, Tobin Priestley (Canterbury).
