Spring is in the air bringing novelties for the 2018 Vertical World Circuit which kicks off with some of the world’s highest skyscraper races, a new London venue and a new ranking system. The nine-race circuit launches with a new race, the Lotte World Tower International Sky Run in Seoul, Korea on May 13. It […]
A record 2,000 runners from over 30 countries climbed to the top of Hong Kong’s tallest tower at the Grand Finale of the 2017 Vertical World Circuit, Sunday, December 3. Australians Suzy Walsham and Mark Bourne were the race winners but the World Champion titles went to Walsham and Poland’s Piotr Lobodzinski. The “un-top-able” and […]
A record 2,000 runners will climb up the 82 floors of Hong Kong’s tallest building, the iconic International Commerce Centre at the 2017 Vertical World Circuit Grand Finale, Sunday, December 3. It’s natural that one of the world’s most vertical cities should host the Grand Finale of the 10-race tour and for the sixth consecutive […]
Poland’s Piotr Lobodzinski and Japan’s Yuri Yoshizumi won the second edition of the Harukas Skyrun on Sunday, November 12, setting the overall fastest times up the 59 floors and 1,610 steps of the Abeno Harukas – Japan’s tallest skyscraper where 1,300 runners competed. Winning the event secured Lobodzinski’s overall victory on the 2017 Vertical World […]
It’s the 2017 Vertical World Circuit semi-finals and top skyscraper racers are heading for the second edition of Japan’s tallest tower race, the Harukas Skyrun on Sunday, November 12 in Osaka. The Abeno Harukas tower counts a fearsome 1,610 steps which, at the inaugural launch last year, were eaten up in just 8’34” by Piotr […]
A new record was set on the Two Shanghai IFC, the Sun Hung Kai Properties landmark tower, on the eighth leg of the Vertical World Circuit, Sunday, October 22. 1,650 participants scaled the 1,460 steps of the building in the SHKP Vertical Run for Charity: Race to Shanghai IFC where VWC world champion, Australian Suzy […]
Just three more races to go on the 10-race Vertical World Circuit and top international athletes, together with a record 1,650 participants, will climb the stairway to the top of Shanghai’s IFC tower, Sunday, October 22. The SHKP Vertical Run for Charity – Race to Shanghai IFC will see a world-class line-up battling for the […]
It was the turn of the 2017 Sydney Tower Stair Challenge, seventh stage of the ten-race Vertical World Circuit, Sunday, August 27, following on from Saturday’s Beijing event. More than 1,000 participants climbed the 1,504 steps to the Observation Deck of the iconic Sydney Tower Eye, the city’s tallest building. Fastest to the top were […]
Beijng, China, hosted the sixth stage of the ten-race Vertical World Circuit, Saturday, August 26 at the China World Summit Wing Beijing Vertical Run, where more than 900 runners stormed up the up the 2,041 steps to the rooftop finish line towering 330m above the city. Vertical World Circuit champions Suzy Walsham from Australia and […]
The conditions were just right for the participants of the Kerry Sports Manila Vertical Run on the fifth leg of the Vertical World Circuit, Sunday, July 9. More than 700 local and overseas participants took to the stairs at Shangri-La at the Fort, to dash up 250 meters to the building’s penthouse making it the […]
