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10 November 2022

First Stairclimbing World Championships kick off with Dubai Holding SkyRun 2022 this Saturday. The challenge is on!

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 […]

6 October 2022

Announcing the first ISF Stairclimbing World Championships – Dubai Holding SkyRun 2022 is the host event

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 […]

4 November 2020

Race up Japan’s tallest tower with the Harukas Skyrun Beyond

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 […]

25 March 2020

Communication on VWC 2020 postponements

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 […]

2 June 2019

VWC elites take One World Trade Center wins

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. […]

29 May 2019

One World Trade Center hosts fifth stage of the VWC

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 […]

17 May 2019

Italians dominate Paris VertiGo

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 […]

15 May 2019

Ready, steady, VertiGo! Fourth leg of the VWC in Paris

After the first three stages of the 2019 Vertical World Circuit® in Seoul, Milan and Ho Chi Minh City, the international skyscraper racing series will head for Paris on Thursday, May 16, the fourth stop on the eleven-race tour. The VertiGo, an official VWC race since 2014, takes place on the tallest building in France, […]

28 April 2019

Triumphant launch for South East Asia’s tallest tower race

The third leg of the 2019 Vertical World Circuit® kicked off today in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam with the world’s top skyscraper racers aiming for circuit points and to celebrate the inaugural Vinpearl Luxury Landmark 81 – Race to the Summit. The fastest times up the 81 race floors and 2,383 steps of South […]

25 April 2019

New race inaugurates South East Asia’s tallest building

The ISF is proud to present a brand new tower and official venue for the 2019 Vertical World Circuit® with the Vinpearl Luxury Landmark 81: Race to the Summit in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Celebrating the tallest building in South East Asia, the inauguration on Sunday, April 28, 2019 will see the world’s top […]

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