During the qualifying round, Bassa Mawem of France suffered an injury to his lower bicep tendon in his left arm and was forced to withdraw from the final.

[3] In speed climbing, climbers raced against each others in pairs on a standardized wall of 15m in height.

In lead climbing, climbers were given a route set on 15m-high wall to top within 6 minutes.

Speed climbing wall is standardized: 15 meters tall, 5 degrees overhanging.

[4][5] The lead route-setters were Adam Pustelnik (chief) from Poland, Jan Zbranek from Czech Republic, Hiroshi Okano and Akito Matsushima from Japan.