IFSC World Cup Koper 2025: Results

Gold for Sorato Anraku and Janja Garnbret

Saturday night in Koper (6 September 2025) delivered a crisp, peak-time Lead final at Bonifika. Japan’s Sorato Anraku won the men’s event; Slovenia’s Janja Garnbret took women’s gold on home limestone-colored turf. The final started at 20:00 local time, exactly as billed on the IFSC schedule.

Sorato Anraku, composed and clinical

Anraku kept his tempo under control, read the crux precisely, and put just enough power into the high-risk moves to separate from the field. It was the kind of no-nonsense execution that tends to win Koper: tidy movement, no panic, and a clean finish. Spanish Olympic champion Alberto Ginés López, meanwhile, didn’t need the win here—his season-long consistency sealed the 2025 overall Lead title even without topping the Koper podium.

Janja Garnbret, queen of the home wall

Garnbret looked unhurried on the frictiony sections and sharp on the small foothold “gazes”—the exact blend Koper rewards. The atmosphere didn’t hurt: four Slovenians made the women’s final (Garnbret, Rosa Rekar, Lučka Rakovec, Lucija Tarkuš), and the home crowd turned every micro-adjustment into a crescendo.

What the result tells us about the season

Koper again played the role of late-season tone-setter. Anraku’s win underlined his endgame poise; Garnbret’s gold reinforced the simple rule that when she’s on a Lead wall, the ceiling of what’s possible tends to shift upward. And with Ginés López locking the overall, the men’s arc of 2025 rewards week-to-week steadiness as much as single-night brilliance.

Housekeeping and what’s next

The event ran to time—qualifiers and semis on Friday, final on Saturday at 20:00—and served (again) as Slovenia’s showcase stop before the World Championships later this month in Seoul. If you want to relive it, the IFSC livestream and event hub are the easiest way back into the key sequences.