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Opening its doors back in 1991, The Foundry has been at the heart of the Sheffield and UK climbing scenes ever since. Almost two decades on, the centre continues to provide a world class environment for climbers, whether you're new to the sport or about to tick your first Font 8b!

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Thursday 5 March 2009

Sheffield Universities Varsity Competition

There was a great atmosphere on the bouldering wall as Sheffield and Hallam fought to win this years competition. Sheffield certainly had more climbers but unfortunatly for them the winners were decided by the combined scored from the top 3 men and top female - this made Hallam the winners by a mere 6 points!

Hallam University - 715 points
University of Sheffield - 709 points


I Turton (H) - 190 - joint top male
E Feehally (S) - 190 - joint top male
T Arnold (S) - 187
A Harrison (H) - 181
K Whittakey (HF) - 172 - joint top female
R Cowie - (SF) - 172 - joint top female
J Grondowski (H) - 172
D Waters (S) - 160
J Lynch (H) - 143
R Armour (H) - 138
K Piddock (SF) - 136
M Boden (S) - 136
J Studden (HF) - 134
S Bennett (S) - 130
J Nunn (H) - 129
O Burrows (S) - 128
T Dixon (S) - 122
R Snowden (SF) - 120
J Powell (S) - 118
A Saul (S) - 118
M Gee (S) - 118
N Weston (S) - 108
M Watson (S) - 106
J Rous (S) - 97
E moorhouse (H) - 77
R Hulme (S) - 66
F Prall (S) - 52
L Andrew (H) - 46

The overall top scoring male/female win a 1 months Foundry Membership - these can be collected from Reception.