Rock Climbing Has A Big Chance To Add 2 Tickets To Paris 2024

Indonesian rock climbing athlete. (Doc. Ist)

JAKARTA - The rock climbing sport has the potential to add two tickets to the 2024 Paris Olympics which will take place in the middle of this year.

Member of the NOC Indonesia Task Force Team for the 2024 Paris Olympics Herry Heryyawan said that there are still two qualifying events for Paris 2024 from the rock climbing branch.

The rock climbing for the speed number still has a ticket quota for 5 men and 5 daughters. To qualify for Paris 2024 does not have to win, it can reach the top 5 in the total points won in Shanghai and Budapest alone can qualify," he said.

The two events are the IFSC Climbing Olympic Qualifier Shanghai which will be held 15-20 May 2024 and the qualifying series which will be held in Budapest, Hungary from 20-23 June.

In Shanghai, the Indonesian Rock Climbing Federation (FPTI) sent nine athletes with details of four male athletes in the speed number, three female athletes in the speed number, and two athletes in the combine number.

All athletes, both men and women who went down in the speed number managed to qualify for the round of 16.

So each series, in Shanghai and Budapest, has points. If you win, the points are 50 and there is a conversion in value to rank below it. So in total, if you win in Shanghai and Budapest, the maximum points are 100," said Herry.

If later there are two athletes with the same total value in these two qualifying series, the highest points in Budapest will be decisive.

Indonesia still has the opportunity to pass two athletes because in the rules, the maximum quota per country is two male and two female athletes.

"So we can still pass one son and another daughter from these last two qualifying series," explained Herry.

Currently, the Indonesian team has passed 20 athletes from nine sports to the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Two of them are rock climbing athletes, namely Desak Made Rita Kusuma Dewi in the women's speed number and Rahmat Adi Mulyono in the men's speed number.