Olympic champion Janja Garnbret flaunted her brilliance on the IFSC Game Hiking International Cup in Innsbruck, Austria on Sunday (18 June), successful double gold in lead and boulder.
Garnbret opened the lead season with the victory on Sunday, including to the gold medal she gained within the ultimate boulder pageant on Thursday. Within the males’s pageant, Swiss climber Sascha Lehmann walked away with the lead name – his first since 2019.
Slovenian famous person Garnbret celebrated her go back to aggressive hiking in taste after an injury-forced hiatus. Garnbret sat out lots of the boulder season because of a toe harm and gained silver on her go back final week in Prague.
She adopted that up with double gold in Austria, successful the lead pageant with 39+, with Ai Mori of Japan bagging silver with 33+. Native favorite Jessica Pilz rounded out the rostrum with 25+.
The 24-year-old Garnbret now boasts 15 boulder International Cup victories and 24 within the lead self-discipline.
“I left all of it at the wall, and once I fell, I used to be simply pleased with how I climbed, and I’m simply extremely thankful,” Garnbret stated.
“It used to be my first harm, and I didn’t in reality understand how to handle it. Up to now months, there have been a large number of doubts, a large number of crying, and a large number of unfavorable ideas. Coming again more potent than ever and successful two gold medals is solely implausible.”
The lads’s pageant used to be a more in-depth affair, with Lehmann successful on countback with 44+, edging Alexander Megos of Germany into 2nd position. Austria celebrated every other bronze medal as Jakob Schubert (42+) claimed the 3rd step at the podium.
“It used to be an enormous struggle, and I’m simply glad I made it up there. I labored arduous for this season to make it onto the rostrum once more,” Lehmann stated.
