BURSTFor the sixth year in a row, a Team Japan climber has won the overall IFSC World Cup title in men’s bouldering. In 2019, Tomoa Narasaki won the overall season. Yoshiyuki Ogata then won in 2021 and 2022. In 2023, World Cup newcomer Sorato Anraku took the series by storm, placing first overall after the season’s six events. He was just 16 years old at the time. After winning the series also in 2024, he took the overall boulder title yet again this year.
Anraku’s 2024 Boulder World Cup season started out flawless, earning gold three times in a row in Keqiao, Curitiba, and Salt Lake City. His next three events weren’t as dominant but he still never left the podium, placing second in Prague and Innsbruck and third in Bern.
Anraku was joined on the 2025 Boulder World Cup Series podium by Mejdi Schalck of France with silver and his teammate Sohta Amagasa with bronze. Winning his third straight overall season title puts Anraku in the company of two of the sport’s legends: Austria’s Kilian Fischhuber, who secured consecutive victories in 2007, 2008, and 2009 and holds a record five Boulder crowns overall; and France’s Jérôme Meyer, who earned three of his four titles back-to-back from 2001 to 2003.
2025 Boulder World Cup Top-10
- Sorato ANRAKU (JPN)
- Mejdi SCHALCK (FRA)
- Sohta AMAGASA (JPN)
- Dohyun LEE (KOR)
- Hannes VAN DUYSEN (BEL)
- Paul JENFT (FRA)
- Tomoa NARASAKI (JPN)
- Anze PEHARC (SLO)
- Meichi NARASAKI (JPN)
- Yufei PAN (CHN)
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