The host venue for the 2023 ISF Stairclimbing World Championships is ready to welcome athletes from around the world in one of Japan’s tallest buildings on Sunday, November 19, 2023. Competitors will battle for medals and world titles at the Harukas Skyrun in the fifth edition of the race. The lung-busting vertical challenge climbs 1,610 […]
The International Skyrunning Federation presents the second edition of the Stairclimbing World Championships after last year’s successful launch in Dubai. This year the host venue moves to Osaka, Japan, with the Harukas Skyrun on November 19, 2023. Athletes from around the world will gather here on one of Japan’s tallest buildings, the Abeno Harukas, the […]
It was a short but strenuous uphill challenge for 250 runners competing in the first ISF 2022 Stairclimbing World Championships held today, Saturday, November 12, 2022, at the Dubai Holding SkyRun, Dubai, Arab Emirates. The new World Champions are Wai Ching Soh from Malaysia and Yuri Yoshizumi from Japan who both took a gold medal. […]
Elite athletes from around the world are preparing to compete for the titles and medals at stake in the first ever ISF 2022 Stairclimbing World Championships, hosted at the Dubai Holding SkyRun on Saturday, November 12, 2022, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The challenge that awaits them is a massive climb up 1,334 steps for a total of 52 floors in Dubai’s landmark Jumeirah Emirates Towers together […]
The first-ever Stairclimbing World Championships sanctioned by the International Skyrunning Federation (ISF) will be held at the Dubai Holding SkyRun 2022 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates on November 12, 2022. The world’s élite stair climbers, together with top international skyrunning athletes and passionate runners from around the world will participate in the colossal climb up 1,334 […]
With continuing cancellations right across the 2020 Vertical World Circuit®, the world’s premier skyscraper racing tour, the Harukas Skyrun in Osaka, Japan, scheduled for November 15, will go virtual. The Harukas Skyrun Beyond invites skyscraper racers from Japan and around the world to virtually race Japan’s tallest tower, the 300m high Abeno Harukas – five […]
Dear Vertical Running athletes, organisers and fans, In confirming the 2020 Vertical World Circuit®, some race postponements will be necessary due to the Covid-19 outbreak which is rocking the sports world. Our first concern is for the health and wellbeing of our athletes, volunteers and race officials who have been impacted around the world, and […]
Japan’s Ryoji Watanabe and Laura Manninen from Finland took their first Vertical World Circuit® win in the T2T Tower Climb in a field of close on 1,000 runners today. The fifth edition of the race was hosted in New York’s One World Observatory at One World Trade Center, the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere. […]
One of the most iconic skyscrapers in the world, New York’s tallest tower and the highest building in the Western Hemisphere is the venue for the fifth stage of the 2019 Vertical World Circuit® on Sunday, 2 June. One World Observatory at One World Trade Center will host the T2T Tower Climb where close on […]
The fourth leg of the 2019 Vertical World Circuit®, the international skyscraper racing series, was held in Paris yesterday evening with the VertiGo up the tallest building in the country. The international line-up was dominated by Italians, taking the top two places in the men’s field and third in the women’s. Joining 1,150 runners from […]
