Every gold medal is special, but Prague raised the bar as Sanders became only the third woman to win two disciplines at the same event and Tri Ramadani won gold for Indonesia in a discipline other than Speed.

France’s Sandrine Levet and Slovenia’s Janja Garnbret – who has done it four times – are now joined by Sanders as double comp winners after the American won the women’s Lead final ahead of South Korea’s Chaehyun Seo and France’s Zélia Avezou.

Backing up from Boulder last night, Sanders came into the final level with Seo after they both topped the two qualification routes and reached the same point in the semi-final. But in the final Sanders climbed to hold 37 while Seo hit hold 35.

After her win Sanders said: “It was super fun. The route climber very bouldery which I think suited my style quite a bit. I managed to find the hand hold at the top that led to the crimp that helped me take the win.

“It was incredible. I’m really tired. But it was super cool and the crowd was super supportive. Yeah, I’m pretty excited.”

Also backing up from the Boulder final was Avezou. The French climber just missed the podium last night, but returned to comp action taking a medal this time around with a hold 31+ bronze medal climb.

Just off the podium in Lead was Austria’s Jessica Pilz on hold 30 ahead of first time finalist, USA’s Ella Fisher who climbed to hold 24+ for fifth.

Japan’s Hana Koike was sixth, also on hold 24+, Bulgaria’s Aleksandra Totkova was seventh on hold 18+ and South Korea’s Jain Kim was eighth on hold 14+ as she returned to a final after two years.

Indonesia is no stranger to a gold medal or a World Climbing Series podium, but that is in Speed. Now though, they can add Lead to that list as Tri Ramadani continued the good form he started the competition in.

First after qualification, third after the semi-final, Tri Ramadani whowed what he could do climbing confidently in his ability to move back to the top of the standings by reaching hold 43.

Tri Ramadani’s win was no mean feat either as he beat Japan’s Neo Suzuki who took silver and Austria’s climbing legend Jakob Schubert who took bronze.

After his win Tri Ramadani said: “This is the second final and the first medal for me, so obviously I’m happy and hopefully I can do this weel again next time.

“It was a diffcult final especially at the top section. It was a difficult route and definitely made me pumped.”

In second for silver, Suzuki climbed to hold 39 and Schubert climbed to hold 37 for his bronze.

Making his own little bit of history last night with four gold medals in a row in men’s Boulder, Sorato Anraku couldn’t quite make any more in Prague missing the chance of his own golden competition double – the wait goes on, but you feel it’s not too far away.

The Japanese climber was fourth on hold 34+ ahead of undoubtedly the home favourite, Czechia’s Adam Ondra in fifth on hold 30+.

Sixth was Slovenia’s Luka Potocar on hold 30+ while Italy’s Filip Schenk was seventh on hold 29+.

Despite climbing quite well, Japan’s Satone Yoshida was disappointed to return to the ground to find out that he had been given a score of just 2 after a little double tap of his foot while leaving the ground counted as a fall. No doubt Yoshida will learn from that and will be back.

His, and all the Boulder and Lead climbers, next chance will be Innsbruck, Austria for another double-header on 17-21 June.

RESULTS

Women's Lead: https://wclmb.hopp.to/pra26wlr
Men's Lead: https://wclmb.hopp.to/pra26mlr

THE PROGRAMME

The World Climbing Series Prague 2026 will kick off with two days of qualifications: men’s Boulder on Wednesday, 3 June at 9:00 (UTC+2:00), followed by women’s Boulder at 16:00. Lead qualifications will take place on Thursday, 4 June at 10:00.

Semi-finals and finals will liven up the weekend, with men’s Boulder awarding its medals on Friday, 5 June, women’s Boulder on Saturday, and Lead semi-finals and finals closing the event on Sunday, 7 June.

News and updates about all World Climbing events will be available on the World Climbing website, and on the Federation’s digital channels: Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Threads, TikTok, X, YouTube, and exclusively for the Chinese audience, Douyin, Weibo, and Xiaohongshu.