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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 […]

19 February 2020

2020 Vertical World Circuit® announced

The world’s premier skyscraper racing tour is ready to launch the 2020 calendar. This year’s Vertical World Circuit® features nine races and again, a line-up of the best specialists aiming for ranking points together with thousands of amateurs climbing the stairs – for fun, for fitness, for a special cause – and the unique reward […]

10 November 2019

It’s a record for Bourne – Lobodzinski and Walsham are world champions

It was a glorious end to the 2019 Vertical World Circuit® today at the final of the 10-race circuit at the Harukas Skyrun in Osaka, Japan, where Australia’s Mark Bourne crushed the record, but left the VWC world champion title to Poland’s Piotr Lobodzinski. Lobodzinski takes the world title for the sixth time together with […]

5 November 2019

Osaka – the tenth and final race of the 2019 Vertical World Circuit® is upon us

World Champions Suzy Walsham and Piotr Lobodzinski will be going into the tenth and final race of the 2019 Vertical World Circuit® with a strong chance of holding on to their titles. However, with an extra 50% bonus points at stake here, some surprises could be in store. The Harukas Skyrun in Osaka, Japan, will […]

28 October 2019

World champions crush their own records at Dubai Holding SkyRun

World champions triumph at the 2019 Vertical World Circuit® semi-finals by crushing the standing records – their own – at the Dubai Holding SkyRun, October 25, 2019, Dubai, Arab Emirates. Piotr Lobodzinski from Poland and Australian Suzy Walsham both clocked up their third win at the Dubai Holding SkyRun climbing the 1,334 steps and 52 […]

23 October 2019

All eyes on Dubai – the new VWC semi-final

The heat is on and the 2019 Vertical World Circuit® will head for Dubai, Arab Emirates, on Friday, October 25 for the ninth leg of the tour, the circuit’s new semi-final after the cancellation of the Grand Finale in Hong Kong due to the recent social events. Just five days after the Shanghai stop-over, the […]

22 October 2019

Hong Kong Grand Finale cancelled. Osaka last stop on the VWC

In view of recent social events in Hong Kong, the organiser of the 2019 Vertical World Circuit® Grand Finale, the SHKP Vertical Run for Charity – Race to Hong Kong ICC, scheduled for 1 December, has announced the cancellation of the race. The final stop of the VWC will now take place in Osaka, Japan, […]