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MAR

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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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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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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 - a family affair !

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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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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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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 21.

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 !

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)

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)