The second day of competition at the World Climbing Series Chongqing 2026 opened with the Speed Mixed Relay qualification round, with China 1 leading the field and New Zealand 1 setting a new Oceania record on their way to the final.<\/p>\n
CHINA LEADS A CLOSE TOP THREE<\/p>\n
China 1\u2019s Ling Yongzhi and Mou Yuji set the fastest time of the qualification round, stopping the clock at 11.47 seconds.<\/p>\n
Two Indonesian teams followed closely behind. Indonesia 1, composed of Raharjati Nursamsa and Rajiah Sallsabillah, finished second in 11.78, while Antasyafi Robby Al Hilmi and Adi Kadek of Indonesia 2 took third in 11.89.<\/p>\n
Nursamsa and Sallsabillah are aiming to repeat their success from Guiyang, China, where they claimed gold in the Mixed Relay one week ago.<\/p>\n
NEW ZEALAND BREAKS OCEANIA RECORD<\/p>\n
New Zealand\u2019s Julian David and Helen Lee produced a major improvement to set a new Oceania record and secure their place in the final.<\/p>\n
The pair clocked 13.86 seconds, lowering the previous continental benchmark of 17.26 by more than three seconds. The performance placed them 15th overall and earned a spot in the final.<\/p>\n
Lee explained that the team prioritised a clean run after a difficult opening attempt: \u201cWe mostly focused on getting a clean run, especially after we messed up the first one. It definitely wasn’t our fastest, like the fastest we could run individually. I think we were just trying to play it safe a little bit. And also our start and transition were better.\u201d<\/p>\n
With the pair having never practised the relay together before, Lee believes there is still room for improvement.<\/p>\n
\u201cI hope we can improve again, because we have never even practised the relay before. I’ve never practised reacting to someone else going instead of the beep,\u201d she concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The second day of competition at the World Climbing Series Chongqing 2026 opened with the Speed Mixed Relay…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-605198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}