Competition in the Russian city will begin tomorrow and run until August 30.

A total of 211 male and 206 female athletes have registered to compete across the 10 days, with three age categories contested in bouldering, lead and speed disciplines.

Climbers aged between 18 and 20 will participate in the junior category, while participants aged from 16 to 18 compete in the youth A event.

Youth B participants will be aged between 14 and 16.

Six places at the Birmingham 2022 World Games will be on offer at the World Championships, with one quota place awarded per discipline and gender for athletes in junior and youth A events.

The IFSC says 18 medallists from the 2019 Youth World Championships in Italy will be among the participants, including France’s Oriane Bertone.

Bertone won boulder and lead events at the event and has since earned two World Cup silver medals at senior level.

Aleksandra Totkova won lead bronze and combined silver in 2019 in Arco, with the Bulgarian having since earned a Lead World Cup bronze medal last month in Chamonix.

Hosts Russia will have high hopes for 2019 speed gold medallist Iaroslav Pashkov, one of 48 athletes included in their team.

Japan’s Ao Yurikusa, Hajime Takeda, Haruki Uemura, and Junta Sekiguchi won eight medals between them in Arco and will hope for a repeat in Russia.