International Federation of Sport Climbing

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International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC)
Founded 2007
Place of foundation Frankfurt am Main , Germany
president Marco Maria Scolaris
societies 81
Association headquarters Bern , Switzerland ; IFSC's head office is based in Turin , Italy
Official languages) English
Homepage www.ifsc-climbing.org
President Marco Scolaris, 2017
IFSC logo until 2015

The International Federation of Sport Climbing , abbreviated IFSC, is the international professional association for competitive climbing within sport climbing , which includes the three disciplines of difficulty climbing (synonyms: lead, difficulty, on-sight), speed climbing and bouldering . In addition to organizing the competition, the association's tasks also include conducting international rankings, issuing updated regulations and the fight against doping . The organization, founded on January 27, 2007, is the successor to the International Council for Competition Climbing (ICC) set up in 1997 by the Union Internationale des Associations d'Alpinisme (UIAA ) and the first official international competition climbing association to be fully independent from the UIAA. Since it was founded, the number of members has grown from 48 to 64 national sport climbing associations. There are also 11 other national and 3 regional sport climbing associations as associated members and 3 sport climbing associations affiliated with the IFSC with observer status. The IFSC has been provisional since 2007 and has been finally recognized by the IOC since 2010 and has been a member of the General Association of International Sports Federations (GAISF, renamed SportAccord in 2009 ) since 2007 .

The IFSC organizes biennial world championships and world youth championships in the three competitive disciplines as well as paraclimbing, as well as a series of World Cup events every year . Furthermore, the IFSC oversees the climbing competitions as part of the World Games for non-Olympic sports that are held every four years . The IOC decided on August 4, 2016 that sport climbing would be an Olympic sport at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.

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Individual evidence

  1. a b c d Climbing Competitions' History. (No longer available online.) IFSC, archived from the original on August 23, 2016 ; Retrieved November 16, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ifsc-climbing.org
  2. ^ Presidents' Message. IFSC, accessed November 16, 2013 .
  3. Contacts. IFSC, accessed November 16, 2013 .
  4. Member Federations. IFSC, accessed November 16, 2013 .
  5. ^ IOC approves five new Olympic sports . spiegel.de. Retrieved September 6, 2016.