Category: Championships
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German Tree climbing championship 2019 – Long days in Ingolstadt
68 starters, only six females of them, in the preliminary round and eight participants in the Masters on two days, the schedule for the 26th German Tree Climbing Championship was tightly timed. The competition days beside a lake in Ingolstadt, Bavaria, were correspondingly long. The starters fought their way through the challenging stations in almost […]
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Hall of Fame: Tree Climbing Championships
There have been tree climbing championships since 1976. Who has entered themselves in the official lists of European and World Champions since then?
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ITCC 2018: Kilpatrick for the third time
The International Tree Climbing Championship has been firmly in New Zealands hands for the last five years. Seven of the ten titles in both men’s and women’s competition went to the small country on the other side of the world. And also in 2018 the Kiwis secured at least one of the two titles. The […]
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ITCC 2018: Freeworker supports the German Champions
Anika Hartramph and Tim Schröder won this year’s German Tree Climbing Championship. They are German Tree Climbing Champions 2018, automatically qualifying for the European Tree Climbing Championship (ETCC) near Paris (FR) and the International Tree Climbing Championship (ITCC 2018) in Ohio (USA). Especially the trip to the USA is connected with considerable costs – which […]
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Home advantage used – European Tree Climbing Championship 2018
Just before the award ceremony began at the European Tree Climbing Championship 2018, something unusual happened: raindrops fell to the ground for a short time. Previously, the weather in Thoiry, a few kilometres west of Paris, was dominated by heat that increased daily. On the last day the thermometer climbs to 35 °C and the […]
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Freeworker on the road: Petzl RopeTrip 2018
Six years ago, Petzl established the RopeTrip, an international event for rope access technicians. Meanwhile it is considered in the scene as an unofficial world championship. In addition to the competition, the worldwide professional exchange of knowledge and technology in rope climbing – similar to the national and international tree climbing championships – is in […]