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Who won the 2026 Austrian bouldering, speed and lead titles, the highlights of Austria's international season, and the competitions still to come in the country's halls, from the autumn state championships to the World Climbing Series in Innsbruck in June 2027.
Austria's climbing federation, the Kletterverband Österreich (Austria Climbing), crowned its 2026 national champions between March and April, in three disciplines and three cities. Here are the results, the highlights of the international season so far, and the competitions still to come in Austria's halls this winter and next summer.
Bouldering opened the season at BLOC house in Graz on 6 and 7 March. Katharina Bergmann won the women's title ahead of Jakoba Rauter and Johanna Färber, and Jan-Luca Posch won the men's ahead of Timo Užnik and Nicolai Užnik.
Speed followed in St. Pölten on 18 April. Johanna Nagl won the women's title from Maya Walter and Lisa Dorwekinger, and Lukas Knapp the men's from Lawrence Bogeschdorfer and Lukas Windischer.
Lead was decided on the outdoor wall of KI Kletterzentrum Innsbruck on 25 April. Olympic medallist Jessica Pilz took the women's title, with Mattea Pötzi second and Ines Schwaiger third, while Felix Mader won the men's from Christian Leitner and Georg Parma.
The Open Austrian Para Climbing Championships were held at Kletterhalle Wien on 6 June, and the under-13 titles were climbed in Innsbruck in April (bouldering) and at Kletterhalle Ehrwald on 10 October (lead).
The biggest event on home ground was the World Climbing Series round in Innsbruck from 16 to 21 June, which the federation says drew 17,000 spectators. In the lead final, in front of about 3,000 fans in KI's open-air arena, Jakob Schubert finished third and Pilz sixth, and three young Austrians reached their first World Cup semi-finals.
Since then:
The autumn is busy with state championships and club competitions, many of them open to hobby climbers. On the federation's calendar in October 2026:
In January 2027 Boulderbar Linz hosts a children's competition on 23 January.
Innsbruck hosts the World Climbing Series again from 9 to 13 June 2027, for bouldering and lead, with a Para Climbing Series round on 7 and 8 June. The world championships follow in Brno, just over the Czech border, from 13 to 22 August 2027, and the European Games in Istanbul run from 16 to 27 June.
Dates can change, so check the federation's calendar before you travel. For where to climb, see our guides to climbing in Austria, Innsbruck, Graz and Vienna.
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