Taking advantage of the www.8a.nu database, once more, I was curious to see where the best five, Male and Female, portuguese climbers (ranked on the www.8a.nu) stand among the best world rock climbers (also, only the ones ranked on that same database).
As of 8th of April 2009, we have the following all time results for the routes rating:
0,8th percentil, 81th of #9695 José Abreu
2,7th percentil, 284th of #9695 André Neres
5,0th percentil, 488th of #9695 Ricardo Belchior
5,2th percentil, 69th of #1324 Isabel Boavida
5,7th percentil, 555th of #9695 Nuno Pinheiro
9,7th percentil, 943# of #9695 Ricardo Neves
15,5th percentil, 205th of #1324 Kimi Kon
28,4th percentil, 376th of #1324 Helena Fialho
30,8th percentil, 408th of #1324 Verónica Dias
35,9th percentil, 475# of #1324 Joana Sousa
Obs:
If you are in 1st percentil it means that in #100 climbers #1 is as good as you.
If you are in 50st percentil it means that in 100 climbers #50 are as good as you.
Nevertheless looking into the results a different conclusion arises. Our girls are not as performance orientated as world climbing girls or as portuguese climbers are! Any ideas why?
As for the overall quality, and bearing in mind that only the five best portuguese climbers are here compared with the world climbing population (and not with the 5 best males and females from each country), it seems like a lot of work has yet to be done when only one climber, José Abreu, out of our best ten, has reached a world quality performance (only #8 in #1000 climbers reached such a high performance).
Though especially difficult to compare, when we look to these results side by side with the ones from the International competitions (see @ http://ricardofb.wordpress.com/best-climbers-in-portugal/ )I am tempted to say that we are better in rock climbing than competing!
Future Research
It would be interesting to see the percentage of 10 best routes ever done by each of these best portuguese climbers, done in national soil and abroad!
Greetings
R.
Interesting ranking for Portuguese climbers, however there are most certainly some other climbers that are unknown to the media that are professional climbers.
Surely!
Nevertheless, my though was that it shouldn’t differ very much from elsewhere!
As of 14.04.2009:
In the 8c level, of #4 climbers, 50% are ranked in the 8a.nu
In the 8b+ level, of #1 climbers, 0% are ranked in the 8a.nu
In the 8b level of, #3 climbers, 67% are ranked in the 8a.nu
In the 8a+ level of, #6 climbers, 67% are ranked in the 8a.nu
In the 8a level of, #14 climbers, 36% are ranked in the 8a.nu
Greetings
R.