Oscar Baudrand of Canada displayed an impressive round and made the third semi-final of his career in the men\u2019s Boulder qualification at the World Climbing Series Comunidad de Madrid that also saw two of the discipline\u2019s biggest names take control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Canadian athlete topped all five boulders to finish second behind Anraku Sorata in his qualification group and third overall with 124.4 points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Anraku of Japan and Mejdi Schalck of France topped their respective groups to ease into the semi-finals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Baudrand said: \u201cHonestly it was probably the best round of my life. I don\u2019t think I could do much better than that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI used to train in Salt Lake City but I moved to Montreal, and my whole Climbing environment changed. After the World Championships in South Korea I was considering quitting, but it didn\u2019t last long. The Climbing environment is so inviting, it\u2019s so family-orientated and they make you feel like you belong. I just got addicted with going to the gym. The gym now has changed my whole outlook on how I see high performance Climbing.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Baudrand added: \u201cI had an identity crisis, and I tried to find out who I was outside of climbing and not attaching my results to my climbing. It\u2019s all evaporated now and it\u2019s a task of passion now and not identity and fear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI feel I have set myself up perfectly to fail. I had such a good qualification but coming out among such great climbers I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if I finished dead last and I am in over my head.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
JAPAN ADVANCE FIVE MEN INTO SEMI-FINAL<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Japan moved five of their six climbers into the men\u2019s Boulder semi-final, once again showing the team\u2019s depth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kawamata Rei of Japan matched Baudrand\u2019s position with the score of 94.8 points, while brothers Narasaki Meichi and Tomoa qualified in fifth with 109.5 points, and 13th overall with 93.9 points, respectively. Dohi Keita of Japan secured the final Japanese semi-final position in 21st overall with 84.2 points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Eighteen-year-old Lukas Mokrolusky of Czechia advanced to the third Boulder semi-final of his career in five World Climbing Series starts. The Czech climber scored 108.7 points and will look to improve on his career-best finish of 10th place in Innsbruck, Austria, in 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pan Yufei of China also returned to the semi-final after narrowly missing out by one place in Bern. The Chinese climber recovered strongly in Alcobendas to place 15th overall with 94.4 points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pan said: \u201cI feel my condition is better than Bern. My performance still isn\u2019t fixed because I hurt myself a bit in Keqiao, my right middle finger, but before the Series moved to Europe I tried to do a lot of recovery. I sometimes feel afraid to catch the holds, but this time I didn\u2019t feel pain, so that\u2019s good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI won in Bern last year and this year I didn\u2019t do so well. But the men\u2019s Boulder is outstanding. You have to be so strong all the time or you will fail and you will go out of the competition. For me it\u2019s a bit about dealing with the injury though and focussing on myself rather than others,\u201d Pan concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Oscar Baudrand of Canada displayed an impressive round and made the third semi-final of his career in the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[406,102],"class_list":["post-13217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","tag-boulder","tag-sport-climbing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Oscar-Baudrand.png",1920,1080,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Oscar-Baudrand-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Oscar-Baudrand-300x169.png",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Oscar-Baudrand-768x432.png",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Oscar-Baudrand-1024x576.png",640,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Oscar-Baudrand-1536x864.png",1536,864,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Oscar-Baudrand.png",1920,1080,false],"morenews-large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Oscar-Baudrand-825x575.png",825,575,true],"morenews-medium":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Oscar-Baudrand-590x410.png",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"info":["admin"]},"category_info":"International<\/a>","tag_info":"International","comment_count":"0","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Oscar-Baudrand.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13217"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13220,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13217\/revisions\/13220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}MOKROLUSKY AND PAN RETURN TO SEMI-FINAL<\/h3>\n\n\n\n