Tarnów, Poland Trento, Italy Hall, Austria Wien, Austria Vail, United States Eindhoven, Netherlands Chamonix, France Daone, Italy Barcelona, Spain Imst, Austria Puurs, Belgium Brno, Czech Republic (L) Adam Ondra (S) Sergei Sinitcyn (L) Johanna Ernst (S) Edyta Ropek The 2009 IFSC Climbing World Cup was held in 14 locations.

At the end of the season an overall ranking was determined based upon points, which athletes were awarded for finishing in the top 30 of each individual event.

The winners for bouldering were Kilian Fischhuber and Akiyo Noguchi, for lead Adam Ondra and Johanna Ernst, for speed Sergei Sinitcyn and Edyta Ropek, and for combined Adam Ondra and Akiyo Noguchi, men and women respectively.

In lead climbing, at the World Cup in Puurs, Belgium, Johanna Ernst of Austria, Jain Kim of South Korea, and Maja Vidmar of Slovenia were tied in the final round and tied on countbacks too, so they did a super final round where Johanna Ernst took the win.

Adam Ondra of Czech Republic, at age sixteen, made his debut in the World Cup circuit in bouldering competition in Hall, Austria, placing third.