Sunday, Suzy Walsham and Piotr Lobodzinski were crowned Vertical World Circuit champions in Hong Kong at the Grand Finale of the nine-race tour. The race winners were Australian Mark Bourne who closed in 12’12” and Walsham, in 14’25”, who also took the title – for the fifth consecutive time. A record 1,800 competitors from 34 […]
For the fourth consecutive year, on December 4, the Vertical World Circuit will hold the finals of the nine-race tour on Hong Kong’s tallest building, the iconic International Commerce Centre topping out at 484 metres. No less than twelve of the world’s top ranked athletes in a record field of 1,800 participants will be racing […]
Records were smashed with Australians Mark Bourne and Suzy Walsham beating their own race times set back in 2014 at the SHKP Vertical Run for Charity – Race to Shanghai IFC. The new records for ascending the 1,460 steps and 54 floors of the Shanghai IFC tower are 7’42” and 9’15” respectively. Another record was […]
Counting the hours to tomorrow’s Vertical World Circuit semi-finals we have the ranking leaders together with a record 1,600 runners toeing the line to ascend the 1,460 steps and 54 floors of the Shanghai IFC tower in the city’s financial centre, hosted by the SHKP Vertical Run for Charity – Race to Shanghai IFC. Reigning […]
Reigning Vertical World Circuit champions, Piotr Lobodzinski and Suzy Walsham are yet again on top of the world after scaling the heights of Beijing’s tallest tower, Lobodzinski setting a new record. The seventh stage of the Vertical World Circuit nine-race tour took place in China’s capital on September 3, the fourth edition of the China […]
The 2016 Vertical World Circuit heads for Asia on the seventh stage of the nine-race tour on September 3rd. It will be the turn of Beijing where the world’s top skyscraper racers will be joined by local runners to climb the heights of the China World Summit Wing tower – 330m, 82 floors and 2,041 […]
Japan’s tallest building, the Abeno Harukas, will host the country’s only international stair climbing race – “Harukus Skyrun” in Osaka. On December 11, élite runners will start at the tower’s first floor and ascend 60 flights to the rooftop. They will face the challenge of running up a total 1,621 steps to a height of […]
Yet again Australians Suzy Walsham and Mark Bourne take the win at the Sydney Tower Stair Challenge, Sunday, August 23. On the sixth leg of the Vertical World Circuit, the two champions, together with a record 1,200 competitors, raced up the tower’s 1,504 steps to the Observation Deck of the Sydney Tower Eye. Their time? […]
Piotr Lobodzinski of Poland and Suzy Walsham of Australia won the inaugural Kerry Sports Manila Vertical Run in the Philippines today. Sanctioned by the International Skyrunning Federation, the event was selected as Official Race of the 2016 Vertical World Circuit (VWC), the world’s premier skyscraper racing circuit, uniting some of the world’s most iconic tower […]
Reigning Vertical World Champions Piotr Lobodzinski of Poland and Suzy Walsham of Australia are set to race at the inaugural Kerry Sports Manila Vertical Run in a bid to defend their world titles, when the race takes place on August 14. Hundreds of participants are expected to take part in the event held at the […]
