adidas Rockstars 2012 - Highlight

Bouldering: "sports meets music" at a high-carat invitational

adidas Rockstars

August 10th to 11th 2012, Stuttgart (Germany) 

After last year's successful event premiere in Austria's Ötztal valley, adidas ROCKSTARS - an invitational contest for the world's best bouldering athletes - now moves to Stuttgart, the capital of the German federal state of Baden-Württemberg. The second edition of the international climbing event takes place in the famous Porsche-Arena on the 10th and 11th of August, 2012.


The starting list reads like the who's who of bouldering: local hero Philipp Eric Hans (GER), second of the German Juniors Championship 2011, challenges top stars like reigning ROCKSTARS champion and World Bouldering Champion 2007 & 2011, Dmitry Sharafutdinov (RUS), the 4th of the IFSC ranking, Guillaume Glairon Mondet (FRA), the winner of the Australian Bouldering Nationals, Chris Webb Parsons (AUS), the winner of the Gore-Tex Be a Rockstar 2011 event, Ignasi T. Gasque (ESP), the winner of the USA Nationals 2012 (lead), Vasya Vorotnikov (USA), as well as the 2nd of the Bouldering World Cups in Canmore and Vienna 2011, Klemen Becan (SLO). At the womens', shooting star Shauna Coxsey (GBR), currently second of the overall Bouldering World Cup ranking, will meet reigning World Climbing Champion Sasha DiGiulian (USA), and the 4-time champion of the NZ Boulder Series, Mayan Smith-Gobat (GER/NZL).