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Three GB Climbing athletes have qualified for tomorrow's final in the IFSC Lead World Cup in Wujiang, China. Toby Roberts, Max Milne and Erin McNeice all finished in the top eight in today's semi-final. 

This is the first time that more than two British athletes have qualified for finals in the same World Cup event since the Leeds World Cup in 1989, when Simon Nadin, Jerry Moffat, Mark Leach and Ian Vincent competed in the final (and Simon won).

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Can you check the times for the Sundays final, I thought they were 19.00 local, and 12.00 midday UK time? 

…and the award for best route reading goes to Max Milne!

Leeds 1989

Simon Nadin, Jerry Moffat, Mark Leach, Ian Vincent 

Astounding that the TV rights have been sold to a broadcaster who isn't going to show the event live, and the live streams are geo-blocked in the UK. 

Great fight, Toby!

If you get a vpn and connect to the USA you can watch all the comps for free on the IFSC YouTube channel. Allegedly..

Mark wasn't in the final.

Just picking it up on Eurosport - strong climb!

Looks like I did Mark an injustice, he got 8 ranking points which means he came 7th. Sorry Mark, sorry Squawk

(I have the rankings from 1989 as a hard copy/e-copy, maybe the only copy left in the world )

Good result! Shame the coverage is so embarrassingly amateur. Commentary is decent but camera work is awful, badly exposed, people walking in from of the camera, sloppy framing. The audio mix isn't great either, I know there wasn't a huge crowd but hearing a bit of the atmosphere would improve things.

Plus it's not shown live but still shown in realtime, so loads of filler waiting around between climbs.