The Spanish Cup: Ramón Julián and Iratí Anda win first round

Catalan Julián and Basque Anda walk away victorious in Fuerteventura.
Two moments with Ramón Julián during the competition. Photo: D. Munilla
The new Corralejo climbing wall (Fuerteventura), promoted by the company Red Shark and installed inside the water park Baku, was the arena for the first round of the Spanish climbing cup. This artificial climbing structure is again a free standing installation with two different sections, one basically vertical (used for warming up) made with Quiros (fiber glass) panels and one overhanging made with 3D Real Rock panels, which was of course the section holding the competition routes.

Ramón Julián in the male category and Iratí Anda in the female category emerged as winners, both climbing the routes with ease and authority.

The top 6 finishers. Photo: D. Munilla
Ramón Julián (Top30 Team) dominated the category followed by the young Erik López whose second place confirms his great talent and good form profoundly demonstrated in the Spanish Championship at Pilar de la Horadada recently. Catalan Eduard Marín (Top30 Team) finished third and showed clear signs of fatigue and commented that he felt pretty exhausted after intensive training lately in preparation for the upcoming international events.
In the female class Iratí Anda was again untouchable and showed convincing climbing. Local Daila Ojeda also put on a promising performance and finished second ahead of Andrea Cartas from Andalucia.

The next round of the Spanish cup will take place in Terrassa, which has been one of the venues in earlier editions of the cup. But we will have to wait till October as now we return to international action. The closing comp arrives in November in connection with the traditional IFEMA in Madrid. Download picture folder (*zip)