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World Cup splits :

Just one week away is an Empire State Building Run Up under slightly different conditions; the big mystery is how many elites will be seeded to the mass starts - opinions are from 5 to 100 ...

Rolf Majcen from Austria in Dallas at the Big D Climb celebrated his 10th victory in a stair race, the 3rd on American soil after CN Tower ( Toronto ) 1999 and Rockefeller Center ( New York ) 2010

Registration for SkyRun MesseTurm Frankfurt and the 1st Towerrunning European Championships is open

Despite interventions from many sides no open result list from Bangkok´s Vertical Marathon is published

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Step Up for Kids Chicago

AON Center is the location of the first of many important stairclimbs during the year in Chicago. At the premiere event in 1998 there were 125 climbers, last sunday at the 15th edition more than 2000 did it. The climb is about double the Bop(pic) and it was Justin Stewart again who clocked the fastest time of the day in 9:35. Two others managed sub10, Eric Leninger´s 9:48 giving him second place one second before Jesse Berg. Remarkably managed female winner Kristin Frey climbed the overall 4thbest time of 10:49 ! The interval was about 7 or 8 seconds and for a long time she followed her coach Braden Renshaw who had started just before her before passing him for the final stories. At the finish line Kristin even managed to close up to Cindy Harris thus scoring a point in this exciting duel between these two top US climbers. To be continued soon at ESBRU ! Cindy´s 11:05 meant 7thfastest overall, just narrowly behind Bradens 11:01 and Nathaniel Kelp-Lenane 11:04.
Some people can´t get enough - Kristin and Brady climbed another two times but in this respect were beaten by Karen Geninatti doing it five times.
Exactly 270 kids from 5 to 12 climbed the building too. In the result there is a one year old listed too who supposedly did not climb on her own but with a good finish managed a one second better time than her father ...

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Corrida Vertical Sao Paulo
This race announced as final event of the Vertical World Circuit originally was scheduled in December and in another building. Finally some international top athletes had to climb Edificio Abril in Sao Paulo on January 25.
As is common procedure in buildings of this kind the finish at the very top - the heliport - was restricted to the elites.Starting every 30 seconds with a horn blow on the street before the tower, through the lobby and into the stairwell the runners climbed up sometimes on marble stairs and finally sprinted out in the open on the heliport to the finish line.

Female winner was 2009 World Mountain Running Champion Valentina Belotti(ITA) in 3:53 beating Kristin Frey(USA) with 4:15 and Cristina Bonacina(ITA) 4:33. No chance for for the home runners.

The male race was a clear story too. Thomas Dold(GER) needed 3:03 and so was 11 seconds faster than Omar Bekkali(BEL). On 3rd one second behind Fabio Ruga(ITA). Not too happy with his race was Matthias Jahn(GER) who took 4th in 3:27. The next places went to the best home athlete Evander Franco(BRA) and Norbert Lechner(AUT).

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Indianapolis
More than 1000 athletes climbed the One America Tower at the 29th Bop to the Top in Indianapolis. It is a tradititional top event and one name is connected to it: Traditionally Cindy Harris (pic) is the fastest female, this year by more than a minute and it was the 18th straight win for the 2011 World Cup runner up in her hometown ! The winning time of 4:31 was near her courde record from eleven years ago.
Male double winner was Justin Stewart. In 3:38 he outclassed Martin Wilkey, the winner of the past seven years. Climbing once was not enough for Justin on this day, he did the Triple Climb too and was fastest there too !

New York
Two month after his win at Sky Rise Chicago mountain runner Sproule Love was again the fastest male - at One Penn Plaza in New York followed by Alexander Workman, Stephen Marsalese and Michael Karlin, all well known in the stairing scene. Fastest female at this 55 story climb was Monica Garcia Torres.

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Many climbers are waiting for this, there are still not all dates fixed, but:

Here they are - the Masters Races of Towerrunning World Cup 2012 !

The Run Up Series in the Czech Republic will be held for the 5th time in 2012. Seven events are planned - among them the Masters Race in Prague. The dates will be published in February.

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Sunday, June 3 2012 - Frankfurt - MesseTurm

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World Cup splits 2011:

athletes in the Top10:
6 4 3 1
athletes in the Top30:
17 8 7 6 4 3 2 1
athletes in the Top70
52 16 12 10 8 4 3 2
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50+ athletes in the Top30: Daniel Ackermann Mark Trahanovsky, Karen Geninatti, Lisa Zeigel
more than once victim of missing or too late results: Enrico Gäbe Michael Karlin
for download: final World Cup Poster 2011 (6,9M)

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                                                                  Towerrunning World Cup 2011


                                                   Cristina Bonacina ITA       1       Thomas Dold GER

                                                            Cindy Harris USA       2       Jesse Berg USA

                                                              Kristin Frey USA       3       Tomas Celko SVK

Medalist Table
Factors and Races

Statistics    Season Top Males - Season Top Females                     World Cup Final Gallery    Season Poster (6,9M)

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Towerrunning World Cup Final 2011
Dec 8 - Bogota - Ascenso Torre Colpatria
It is one of the very top stair races and a worthy host of our World Cup Final. 5000 Colombian and some elite international athletes made this Christian holiday a running holiday too.  Starting early morning at 8:00 the tower stairwell was full of live as the participants in waves of 10 climbed up the tower. Bonus to the 46 floor stairwell were a curvy prerun of about 100 meters and for the elites only another 2 floors up to the heliport ! Like last year the Colombian home athletes were superior and outclassed the international competitors. Male champion was Juan Pablo Rangel again with 4:42 - the times not comparable as due to road construction the prerun was different than last year. Runner up Frank Carreno in 4:52 was the only other one with an incredible sub5 time ! Canadian mountain runner and cycling pro Sebastian Salas on 11th was the best male international climber. Fastest Lady and now proud owner of a new car was Angela Maria Figueroa with a time of 6:34 she beat last years winner Maria Eugenia Rodriguez  by 10 seconds.On places 5 and 6 the US athletes, Cindy Harris a decisive second faster than Kristin Frey so overtaking her in the overall ranking. For Italian Cristina Bonacina the 7th place at Torre Colpatria was enough to gain the trophy !

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Towerrunning World Cup Final 2011 in Bogota
Dec 8 - Bogota - Ascenso Torre Colpatria
Confirmed elite entries are Cristina Bonacina, Kristin Frey, Cindy Harris, Julia Evangelist, Tomas Celko, Jesse Berg, Piotr Lobodszinski, Norbert Lechner, Sebastian Salas. Due to the unfortunate postponement of the Sao Paulo race a possibility to make big points before the final has disappeared. One consequence is - the old champion Thomas Dold is the new one too - Congratulations ! But there is a big tension as to who will be number 2 - Tomas, Jesse or Piotr !
In the race for female champion Cristina has a certain lead but Kristin and Cindy are not without chances. Our Sports Director Sebastian Wurster has made a little prediction graphic where you can estimate your options !
ESBRU 2012
Important information regarding the Empire State Building Run Up: It´s application time at last from Dec 7 to Dec 11 ! Note there are many changes at this traditional event ( Wednesday, night race, reduced mass start, random entry ... )

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World Cup splits:

Exactly 124 stair races worldwide have been evaluated for the actual ranking .
Thomas Dold still has a respectable lead but Tomas Celko, Jesse Berg and Piotr Lobodszinski are on his trail.
The female leader Cristina Bonacina is hunted by Kristin Frey and Kerstin Sewczyk. Then comes Cindy Harris and she is the only one from the top without point deduction in the next races.This too applies to Valentina Belotti and Melissa Moon ! Some statistics: The Top10 males have competed in sum at 101 races - the Top10 females "only" at 65 races. The Top10 ( both genders ) are from 10 countries ( 5 USA, 4 Germany, 3 Italy, 2 Austria, ... ).
Season Top Males - Season Top Females

There will be very interesting next weeks with the Masters Races in Singapore and Sao Paulo and the Towerrunning World Cup Final in Bogota on Dec 8. The top athletes will race there for these prices and the decisive World Cup points !

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