The 2026 World Climbing Series, as of 21 October.

Where things stand on 21 October 2026

Gripped reported that the World Climbing Series replaced the IFSC World Cup name from 2026, after the federation became World Climbing. Wikipedia counts this as the 38th season of the series. How the disciplines are scored is on how competitions work.

The 2026 calendar

World Climbing published the calendar on 9 January 2026, labelled provisional. The dates below are as it gave them.

The disciplines at Alcobendas are reported differently. World Climbing's calendar lists Boulder and Speed; USA Climbing's schedule page lists Boulder and Lead. Wikipedia's results table shows Speed results there, which supports World Climbing's version.

Boulder: finished

Overall titles

• Men: Sorato Anraku (Japan) won the title with 5048.7 points, ahead of Dohyun Lee (South Korea) on 3095 and Mejdi Schalck (France) on 2899.5. He had clinched it before Salt Lake City and won five of the six events (World Climbing, 18 October 2026).
• Women: Erin McNeice (Great Britain) won with 4545 points, ahead of Oce Mackenzie (Australia) on 4080 and Annie Sanders (USA) on 3755 (World Climbing, 19 October 2026). LaCrux says it is McNeice's first overall Boulder title.

LaCrux says Anraku has won the overall Boulder title every year since 2023. World Climbing's headlines confirm his 2023 title, in a headline shared with that year's women's winner, Natalia Grossman, and a third consecutive title in 2025. LaCrux also reports that Anraku won every 2026 Boulder event until he failed to reach the semi-final in Salt Lake City. World Climbing's preview (15 October 2026) had noted that a sixth win from six would match a feat only Janja Garnbret had achieved, in 2019.

Event winners

The five Anraku wins in Wikipedia's table match World Climbing's statement that he won five of six. At Salt Lake City, World Climbing reports, Katz won on only his second senior World Climbing Series start, ahead of Max Milne (Great Britain) and Rei Kawamata (Japan); it says he is only the second Israeli climber in any discipline to win a series medal, after Alex Khazanov in 2018. Bertone won the women's event ahead of McNeice and Mao Nakamura (Japan).

The Bern women's winner needs checking. Wikipedia gives Oceana Mackenzie, and an AscentStats headline also calls it a first gold for Mackenzie. A LaCrux headline found in search, "First World Cup gold: Erin McNeice and Yufei Pan win in Bern", may refer to an earlier year; we could not confirm which.

Lead: five of six done, title open

Lead events have been held at Wujiang, Prague, Innsbruck, Chamonix and Koper. Santiago, on 23 to 25 October, is the last.

At Chamonix, World Climbing reports, Gines Lopez took his first World Climbing Series Lead win, ahead of Luka Potocar (Slovenia) and Putra Tri Ramadani on countback, and Sanders won her third Lead gold of the season, ahead of Aleksandra Totkova (Bulgaria) and Chaehyun Seo (South Korea) on countback. Wikipedia's results table leaves out the Chamonix Lead results, so it is incomplete.

Leaders before Santiago, per Wikipedia. These are standings, not champions.

LaCrux's report from Koper also named Sanders and Suzuki as the leaders in the race for the Lead titles.

Speed: six of seven done, title open

Speed events have been held at Wujiang, Alcobendas, Krakow, Chamonix, Guiyang and Chongqing; Santiago is the last. World Climbing said Guiyang and Chongqing would add relay and mixed relay competitions.

The Wujiang women's result is not confirmed. Wikipedia names Aleksandra Kalucka as the winner. World Climbing's June ranking review listed Shaoqin Zhang leading the Speed ranking after two events, with Natalia Kalucka third; that neither confirms nor contradicts Wikipedia's entry.

Two world records fell during the series: Zhao Yicheng's 4.54 s in the Wujiang semi-final on 10 May (LaCrux; China Daily) and Emma Hunt's 5.99 s at Krakow on 4 July (USA Climbing). China won the mixed relay at Chongqing, per World Climbing. The records are on the Speed records page.

Leaders before Santiago, per Wikipedia. These are standings, not champions.

Santiago, 23 to 25 October: the final stop

World Climbing says Santiago is the first World Cup event held in Chile and only the second in South America, after a Boulder event in Curitiba, Brazil, in May 2025 (World Climbing, 11 August 2025). Its published schedule, in local time:

• 23 October: women's Lead qualification; men's and women's Speed qualification.
• 24 October: men's Lead qualification; Speed finals.
• 25 October: Lead semi-finals and finals.

The event page showed no results on 21 October 2026.

Other 2026 competitions

Asian Games, Aichi-Nagoya (finished)

Sport climbing was on the programme of the 2026 Asian Games (19 September to 4 October 2026) at Port Messe Nagoya, with Boulder, Lead and Speed medal events and 94 athletes from 13 nations, per World Climbing's preview of 28 September 2026. The medallists below are from Wikipedia.

The Korea Times (3 October 2026) confirms both Lead golds, with Ai Mori second in the women's event and Lee Do-hyun on the men's podium, and says Seo is the first South Korean woman climber to win an Asian Games title.

Youth and para

The World Climbing Youth Championship was held in Arco, Italy, from 18 to 25 July 2026; see youth climbing. Three Para Series events are finished; see para climbing.

Still to come in 2026

• World Climbing Series Santiago, Chile, 23 to 25 October: Lead and Speed, deciding both overall titles.
• Para Series Gunsan, South Korea, 30 October to 1 November (date as on the January calendar).
• Para Series Fukuoka, Japan, 5 to 6 November, which World Climbing calls the fifth and final Para Series event of 2026.
• Nations Grand Finale, Fukuoka, 7 to 8 November: a team competition for the top six nations in the 2025 team rankings, with places rolling down if an invited team cannot attend.

None of these has a result yet. How to follow them is on watching climbing.