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Age Categories

Please take note particularly of the newly announced Youth Categories for 2025
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SANCF will be applying the 2025 age groups from the 2024 Nationals in September 2024

Selection Principles

The SA Youth Climbing team is selected at a selections competition.  The first placed three climbers in each age/gender category are offered a position on the team.  If a climber cannot attend then the Selection Panel may choose to select a lower placed climber that is "reasonably close" in performance"  Speed climbing has a "Hurdle" time imposed that is the maximum time allowed for the relevant age/gender category.

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The selection panel has been chosen from a number of coaches in various provinces in SA.  This has been done to ensure some knowledge of climbing ability. 

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The Open selections for the World Cup Competitions in 2024 has been completed with Athletes being informed which World Cup competitions they have qualified for.  The ranking was based primarily on the IFSC Olympic selection competition in which SA's best ranked climbers all competed.  The next tier was the National competition held in Durban.

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Selections for Open category IFSC World Cup Competitions - 2025

​For World Cup participation in 2025, the principle of ranking will also apply with the National Championship to be held in Pretoria will be a compulsory competition that wil be used as the primary source for the ranking of climbers for the 2025 World Cup selections.  The only exception being those that compete in the Olympic Games who will be afforded the first choice of one World Cup competition whereafter they will be selected along with others according to their ranking.​​

Selections for Youth IFSC Competitions - 2025

For the Youth World Championships, SANCF will hold a Selection Competition early in 2025 that will provide the primary selection critearia for youth athletes.  This will be backed up by the National Championships held in 2024 with the age categories "aged up" to 2025 categories.  This is the first time that this has been done and is expected to be the basis for Youth Ranking for the future.

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Further information and a ratified policy will be published in the coming months.

Selection Panel

The following coaches have been appointed to the selection panel for 2024.  The makeup of this panel is subject to change and members may be added or resign from this standing committee.

  • Tiffany Wells (Chair)

  • Allister Fenton - GC

  • Chris Allan -WCC

  • Jay-D Muller - ECC

  • Jordan Pillai - KZN

  • Nick Meinel - GC

  • Carmen Bouwer - GC

  • Katleho Pobe - GC

  • Alyssa Meyer - GC/WCC

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