MAR
5 |
World Cup lead changes:
For the first time a Mexican runner climbs to
the top - Javier Santiago with a narrow lead
over Jesse Berg. They are followed ba two Europeans
- Thomas Dold and Tomas Celko.
Another narrow thing is the Lady´s ranking
with Cindy Harris taking over from Melissa Moon.
Number three and best European runner Daniela
Vassalli.
Business as usual in the Nations Cup with USA
leading Germany and Italy.
Unfortunately the result of Vertical Rush cannot
be evaluated for the World Cup ranking as one
week after the race despite consultations with
timing company and event organisations there
is still gendermix in the official result -
sorry especially for Anna Frost and Rachael
Orr.
According to the rules the race in Prague will
be upgraded to Masters-Race with factor 1,5
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FEB
28
27
25
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That was an intense weekend
with 12 stair races in the United States !
Most well known the "Hustle up the Hancock"
( picture ) in the world stairing capital of
Chicago, for the 8th time there Terry Purcell
was the champion, followed by Christopher Schmidt
and Javier Santiago. Fastest Lady once again
Cindy Harris - No. 10 for her at the Hustle.
At the Climb to the Top in New York's Rockefeller
Center the winner was Rolf Majcen from Austria
with new course record beating Chris Solarz.
Chris was not satisfied with this and some hours
later was the fastest in Philadelphia. As a
warm up he had won the climb in Providence the
day before too !
Remarkably at the Fight for Air Climb in Des
Moines overall fastest climber was a Lady -
Lisa Vetterlein !
And in Salt Lake City three climbers did it
30 times - wow !
Rather disappointing after the promising premiere
last year was the 2nd Vertical Rush in London.
Steve Winder and Dan Crow were the only sub
5 climbers, the best performance of the day
was undisputedly by New Zealand´s Anna
. A strong second place was reached by Rachael
Orr from the organizing company´s staff
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FEB
20
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An interesting saturday wirh
five US races all located somewhere in the middle
of the States. In his home town Albuquerque
Jose Camacho had not only the honor to open
the race but was the fastest racer too - at
age 56 many young athletes looked old compared
to him ! Jose is a climber for many years and
one of the few Americans who already competed
on another continent.
Another double home win at the ALA climb up
the Springfield Hilton ( picture ). Terry Purcell
who also helped in organizing this event and
his wife Susan tokk the titles at this race
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| FEB 13 |
Some surprising results
and two new course records at the 7th Towerrunning
at the Messeturm in Basel. Young Marie-Free
Breyer had a comfortable win over Daniela
Vassalli and Anette Hartmann.Fastest of the
day was Tomas Celko beating Jan Wilker from
Berlin.Last years winner and favourite Gabriel
Lombriser had to be satisfied with a third
place.
Marie-Fee Breyer |
GER |
3:26,6 |
1 |
Tomas Celko |
SVK |
2:37,3 |
Daniela
Vassalli |
ITA |
3:33,1 |
2 |
Jan
Wilker |
GER |
2:40,7 |
Anette
Hartmann |
SUI |
3:36,7 |
3 |
Gabriel
Lombriser |
SUI |
2:41,9 |
Maya Chollet |
SUI |
3:42,4 |
4 |
Fabio Ruga |
ITA |
2:43,6 |
Katjana Schriber |
SUI |
3:54,8 |
5 |
Christian Riedl |
GER |
2:48,9 |
Christina Bätscher |
SUI |
3:58,7 |
6 |
Pavel Holec |
CZE |
2:49,2 |
Cristina Bonacina |
ITA |
4:00.5 |
7 |
Kevin Kiy |
GER |
2:50,6 |
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| FEB 2 |
For the
33rd time Athletes from all over the world
came to New York to participate in the most
famous of them all - the Empire State Building
Run Up. Thomas Dold (GER) did it again. With
his 5th consecutive win he now is on a level
with ESB legends Paul Crake and Al Waquie.
Runner up another German, Matthias Jahn followed
by Matthew Byrne from Philadelphia. First
Lady on the top was Melissa Moon (NZL) celebrating
her return to the stairs with a glorious victory.
Two US climbers followed her, newcomer Gretchen
Grindle Hurlbutt and the experienced Amy Fredericks.
Both champions had easy wins with an exactly
40 second lead ! The US climbers have to wait
for another year, Cindy Moll-Harris 2003 and
Terry Purcell 1998 are still the last home
winners. (Picture:Wikipedia)
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| FEB 1 |
Jesse
Berg takes the World Cup lead after finishing
runner up to Eric Leninger at the 13th Step
Up for Kids in Chicago ( AON Center ). Third
place goes to Mexican Javier Santiago, fastest
Lady is Lindsay Smith. (Picture:Wikipedia)
Short
News:
There will be no RUN2SKY Europe - Series in
2010 !
In spite of other published dates the International
Towerthon in Kuala Lumpur will be on March
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| JAN 27 |
We would welcome
the sending of pictures and eye witness reports
of runners and organizers. This material would
be used for our reporting and our collaboration
with Runners World Online.
The certificates for World Cup 2009 have been
sent. Racers from the Top30 who have not received
it please announce your mail address to office@towerrunning.com
- Thank you ! |
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| JAN 24 |
The first
Masters-Race of the Towerrunning World Cup
2010 was the Vertical Sprint in Milano. This
year for the first time in two heats. After
climbing the 710 stairs in the Pirelli Center
(picture) the fastest runners then had to
conquer another 866 stairs up the Altra Sede.
In a strong international field (7 nations
within the Top10) the favourites Thomas Dold
and Daniela Vassalli were superior. In the
men´s race Tomasz Klisz despite improvement
in the final run missed the chance of taking
the lead in the World Cup. Surprisingly in
the Ladies race last year´s World Cup
runner up Cristina Bonacina had no chance
finishing two minutes behind the winner. (Picture:Fotopedia) |
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| JAN 23 |
On January
23 it was Bop time in Indianapolis. The famous
stairrace Bop to the Top attracted more than
1000 climbers with its 27th edition. Winners
this year Martin Wilkey and for another year
evergreen Cindy Harris. In the Triple Climb
which is an alternative now for the second
time it was all Jesse Berg who showed his
superiority. Nearly 80 climbers chose this
option. (Picture: Tuxedo
Brothers) |
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The
10th Towerrun at the Ideal-building in Berlin
opened the season. Due to the snow the 400m
prerun had to be modified. Fastest runner
was Jan Wilker winning for the third time
followed by David Naumann. The next places
were taken by known stair racers with two
time winner Tomasz Klisz and Enrico Gäbe.
Fastest Lady Marina Klemm followed by Claudia
Becker and Petra Dronke-Schiller adding another
top placing to her Berlin record. Ten days
later in Magdeburg at the Hochhauslauf many
happy kids were climbing too ! (Picture:Wikipedia) |
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