This guide explains how to watch 2025 IFSC Climbing World Cup live streams over the first round of the competition. There are free viewing options in the US and Canada, and we also explain how you can use a VPN to watch your usual coverage if you're away from home.
• Dates: Friday, April 18 - Sunday, April 20, 2025
• FREE Streams: ISFC YouTube channel (US, Canada)
• UK: Discovery+, TNT Sports
• Europe: Discovery+, Eurosport
• Watch from anywhere: try NordVPN 100% risk-free
After several weeks of intense climbing, the 2025 IFSC Climbing World Cup is heading towards a thrilling conclusion in the bouldering event.
This year's World Cup competition pits the world's best boulderers, speed climbers, and lead climbers against each other over 14 separate competitions held across the globe and throughout the year.
Points from each competition are tallied up, and climbers are ranked on a leaderboard that decides the eventual world champions.
This weekend, the world's best boulderers will go head to head in the penultimate round of World Cup bouldering in Bern, Switzerland.
Read on to find out how and where to watch the 2025 IFSC Climbing World Cup wherever you are in the world.
Our guide to rock climbing terms will help you keep up with any unfamiliar jargon in the commentary, and if you want to give this exciting sport a try for yourself, you can also read about getting started in climbing.
Watch the IFSC Climbing World Cup for free in the U.S. and Canada
Want to watch from the U.S. or Canada? Then you're in luck, as you'll be able to stream the entire 2025 competition for free on the IFSC YouTube channel. In addition to live coverage, you can find highlights, interviews, and other awesome content from the competition. Viewers outside of the States and Canada can also access this content, but live coverage will be blocked.
If you're lucky enough to be in the U.S. or Canada, your viewing options aren't limited either, as live coverage is also available on the Olympics channel via Olympics.com. Here, you'll have access to even more highlights, build-up, and reaction to competition.
Traveling outside the U.S or Canada? You can still watch live as usual by using a quality VPN like NordVPN, which allows you to access the streams as if you were sitting on your sofa back home. Find out more below.
Use a VPN to watch the Climbing World Cup from anywhere
If you’re traveling overseas during the 2025 World Cup, geo-blocking restrictions mean you probably won't be able to watch as you usually would back home.
That doesn't mean you have to miss out, however. All you need to do to watch as if you were back home is get yourself a VPN (Virtual Private Network) – assuming it complies with your broadcaster’s T&Cs, of course. A VPN creates a private connection between your device and the internet, meaning the service can’t work out where you are. As an added bonus, the info going back and forth is also entirely encrypted.
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Watch the IFSC World Cup from the UK and Europe
Thanks to a recently agreed rights deal, viewers in the United Kingdom and Europe can stream the semi-finals and finals of every 2025 IFSC World Cup events exclusively on Warner Bros Discovery’s streaming services.
In the UK and Ireland that means TNT Sports, which you can access via a subscription to Discovery+ Premium. It will cost you £30.99 per month in the UK and you’ll also get access to Champions League and Premier League football, Premiership rugby, cycling and loads more top sporting action. Alternatively, TNT Sports can be added to your Sky, BT, EE or Virgin Media TV package – costs vary by platform.
In Europe, you can watch 2025 Climbing World Cup live streams on Eurosport or via the Discovery+ platform.
And don’t forget, if you’re going to be traveling away from home during any of the Climbing World Cup events, you can use a VPN to watch your usual service as if you were back home.
About this week's event
This weekend's competition promises to be a corker, with plenty of climbing heavyweights going head-to-head on the wall.
Japan's Sorato Anraku is looking to clinch an unassailable position on the men's leaderboard. The 18-year-old has won three out of the bouldering events that have taken place this year, and a fourth gold would make him near-untouchable.
He was beaten for the first time last week by France's Mejdi Schalck, who will be hoping to repeat the feat and keep the competition alive going into the final round next week.
This year's women's bouldering competition has been a more open and exciting series, thanks, in part, to the absence of two of the world's best all-around climbers - Slovenian Janja Garnbret and Natalia Grossman of the USA.
Without them, there's been a different winner in every bouldering round of the 2025 World Cup. Each has shown plenty of promise, but is yet to secure the crucial second gold medal.
France's Oriane Bertone will fancy her chances in Bern after an impressive victory in last week's competition. The 20-year-old came second in a previous bouldering competition last month and will be keen to build on her stellar 2025 campaign with a third podium place this weekend.
Japan's Nakamura Mao is also in with a shot. At 25, she has plenty of World Cup experience behind her and won gold with a decisive climb in Salt Lake City, USA, last month.
IFSC World Cup Schedule
Qualification
- 12am PT (June 13) / 3am EST (June 13) / 8am BST (June 13) Women's qualification
- 6.30am PT (June 13) / 9.30am EST (June 13) / 2.30pm BST (June 13) Men's qualification
Finals
- 1pm PT (June 14) / 4am EST (June 14) / 9am BST (June 14) Women's semi-finals
- 8am PT (June 14) /11pm EST (June 14) / 4pm BST (June 14) Women's final
- 1pm PT (June 15) / 4am EST (June 15) / 9am BST (June 15) Men's semi-finals
- 8am PT (June 15) /11pm EST (June 15) / 4pm BST (June 15) Men's final
