Rules and Regulations

UIAA Ice Climbing competitions are organised as per the UIAA Ice Climbing Rules & Regulations handbook. The rules and regulations are approved and enforced by the International Commission for Ice Climbing Competitions. These rules include both aspects for the athletes as well as the organisers of the events.

As per UIAA Ice Climbing Rules & Regulations, athletes wishing to compete in Ice Climbing World Cup and World Championship competitions are required to obtain the ICICC International Licence. The athletes can download the UIAA-ICICC International Licence application form from the right-hand panel in order to obtain the required licence to take part in these competitions.

UIAA Route setting and Judges Courses 2009/2010

The UIAA Commission for Ice Climbing Competitions organised five training courses for route-setters and judges in the 2009/10 season.

 

Course / Event	Conditions	Max No of Part.	Where	When	Trainers route-setters		Trainer judge
Int. route-setter and judges	Nat. route-setters and judges (Russian)	10	Kirov	16-20.12.09	K. Zdhanov	Russian tbd	Andrej Pecjak
Int. route-setter and judges (ca: 3 days route-setting, 1 day judges)	Open (English)	12	Kirov	6.1.-9.1.10	Andrej Pezjak	K. Zdanov	Andrej Pecjak
Int. route-setter (1 day refresher and exchange course)	Open, for experienced route-setters, with aspects for Youth (English)	12	Saas Fee	1/24/2010	Gabriel Voide	Attilio Munari	n/a
Int. judges (1 day theory + 1 day World cup assistance)	Open, with aspects for Youth (English)	12	Saas Fee	21-22.1.10	n/a	n/a	Ziga Ster
Int. route-setter	Open, with aspects for Youth (English)	12	Saas Fee	25-26.1.10	Gabriel Voide	Attilio Munari	n/a
Int. route-setter and judges (5 days; ca: 3 days route-setting, 2 day judges)	Open (English)	12	Busteni	8-12.02.10	Attilio Munari	Massimo da Pozzi	Pavel Shabalin

 

Note:

In the 2010 season the Lead and Speed regulations have been modified. Please read carefully the following document.

Spurs and back parts of crampons will not be allowed in lead competitions in the 2009 season -  please check the rules.

 

Other documents:

Notice to athletes 2009; Interdiction of spurs for 2009;