JUL
7 |
It is the beginning of July and the first
half of the year with almost 80 races considered
for our Tower Running World Cup 2010 is over.
Compared to last year there were more problems
with the result lists - not just missing nationalities,
even the timing chips though proved over years
didn´t always work well. At halftime there
is a more comprehensive ranking including all
athletes having achieved at least 30 World Cup
points since the beginning of the year - here
it is! Should anyone notice a mistake - please
object. Despite all efforts especially the nationality
assignment is not always easy and we want to
have a ranking as correct as possible !
At the beginning of the year encouraged by
interesting contacts we have announced possible
prize money - unfortunately some promises
have not been fulfilled and there will be
no cash prices in 2010. |
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| JUN
30 |
Contest
It´s still time to participate ! The
deadline has been extended til July 31. The
prizes are three one year abos of Runner´s
World ( edition depending on winners ) which
will be drawn among all correct solutions.
The winners will be notified per mail and
named here during the first August days ! |
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JUN
19 |
Finally Austria´s highest building
can be climbed too !. Initiated by Norbert
Lechner the first Millenium Tower Run set
a new record for stair races held within a
building. The 843 stairs had to be climbed
three times - the order of depart in the second
and third climb was decided by the intermediate
result.
In the Lady´s race Marie-Fee Breyer
(GER) was dominant and finally two minutes
faster than the runner up. Julia Evangelist
(AUT). More drama in the male race: In the
first heat Enrico Gäbe (GER) took the
lead but was passed by Rolf Majcen (AUT) in
the second run who was able to extend his
lead in the final run. Very tight the fight
for position three, after 2529 stairs Norbert
Lechner (AUT) was just 2 seconds faster than
Daniel Ackermann (SUI) !
Winners
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JUN
4 |
The intense last May week with three Masters-Races
caused some changes in the ranking.
With his points from Berlin and Taipeh Javier
Santiago defended the World Cup lead. With
his 3rd place in Taipei Thomas Dold passed
Jesse Berg. Strong rising the winners: Frankfurt
- Matthias Jahn from 10 to 5, Dubai - Tomasz
Klisz from 26 to 8 und Taipei - Marco deGasperi
from 60 to 13 !
In the Ladies´ranking Melissa Moon stormed
the top. Interesting a narrow situation at
the runner up position, Sandra Nunez just
4 points before Daniela Vassalli and not far
behind too Marie-Fee Breyer and Cindy Harris
!
An interesting statistical fact is that now
the Top10 male athletes are from 7 different
countries and the Top20 from 10 countries
! The respective figures for the women are
5 (Top10) and 8 (Top20) !
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MAY
30 |
As used Race director Michael Lederer organized
a high-class event with the 4th SkyRun MesseTurm
Frankfurt for ARQUE where sports and charity
complemented each other. A heavy rain storm
just before the start could not interfere with
the good humor of the athletes who had to run
on a blue carpet into the triangular staircase
and then up to the 61st floor.
The victory for the 3rd time went to Matthias
Jahn from the near Fulda, in 5-second intervals
followed by Viktor Novotny (CZE) and Tomas Celko
(SVK). These three stayed under seven minutes.
Places 4 til 6 were occupied by Paul Kipkorir
of Kenya and the two Germans Jan Wilker and
Christian Riedl. Remarkably the 7th rank of
Tomasz Klisz just two days after his victory
in Dubai, 8th with Pavel Holec was another Czech
athlete.
Fastest lady leading a German quadruple victory
was like a week before in Berlin newcomer Anna
Hahner beating Annette Hartmann, previous winner
Marie-Fee Breyer and Anna's twin sister Lisa
Hahner. Fifth Veronika Cheboi from Kenya followed
by Julia Evangelist from Austria. |
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MAY
30
28 |
Surprising results at the 6th Taipei 101
Run Up. In a tight race Marco de Gasperi from
Italy won. Second place world mounrtain running
dominator Johnatan Wyatt (NZL) in his first
stair race since 2002. And just a disappointing
third place for favourite Thomas Dold . In
the Lady´s race Melissa Moon continued
her successful comeback on the stairs.
European double victory in Dubai. Climbing
the Emirates Tower Tomasz Klisz from Poland
dfeated Austrian Rolf Majcen. Third place
went to last year´s runner up Tony Clarkson
- fastest Lady Jo Phillimore. |
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MAY
25
15 |
At the 5th SkyRun Berlin from the Alexanderplatz
up to the Skydeck of the Park Inn Hotel Thomas
Dold won for the 5th time beating Viktor Novotny
(CZE) and Ignacio Cardona (ESP). These three
climbed under 4 minutes. A bit surprising fastest
Lady in 4:30 was cross-Country hope Anna Hahner
(GER).
Sometimes a Masters athlet beats the young ones
- Mark Trahanovsky (51) did so in Little Rock
!
Wafiya Benali (MAR) and Ignacio Cardona win
at the Subida Gran Hotel Bali in Benidorm.
At Augsburg´s Hochhauslauf home Backward
Running World Champion Roland Wegner is the
fastest - going forward ! |
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MAY
5 |
May - lots of high class events all over the
world and a chance to win not only for the runners
but for fans of our sport too.
Take part in our contest
and win one year abos of Runner´s World
( edition depending on winners ).
Good luck ! |
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MAY
5 |
Registration for the Taipei 101 Run Up
2010 is now open l
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Date correction
for the first race of the Czech Run
Up Series:
Ostrava JUN 3
- Zlin JUN 18 - Liberec SEP 9
- Olomouc SEP 17 - Praha SEP 24. At
the final ( Praha SEP 26 ) you can win
a car !
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The premiere of the Spinnaker Tower Challenge
in Portsmouth - planned for May 13 - had to
be postponed - new date is October 14 !
Far ahead: The next Wolkenkratzerfestival
in Frankfurt/Main will be held on May 25-26
2013 ! |
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APR
13 |
The Taipei 101 Run Up 2010 will be on May
30 - registration will open at the end of April.
Unfortunately this is on the same day as the
SkyRun MesseTurm Frankfurt.
The dates of the Czech Run Up Series are fixed:
Ostrava JUN 8 - Zlin JUN 18 - Liberec SEP 9
- Olomouc SEP 17 - Praha SEP 24
A special event for stairsprinters will be on
May 15 in Augsburg (GER). |
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APR
13 |
Soon at Towerrunning: Contest
with questions about our sport - prices one
year abos of Runner´s World ( edition
depending on winners ) Newsletter
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MAR
28 |
The first quarter of the Towerrunning World
Cup ended with an exciting duel between Javier
Santiago and Jesse Berg.taking turns in the
lead for the past five weeks. The surprising
thing this week is that Jesse winning the Presidential
Towers climb in Chicago and so increasing his
score from 576 to 616 points was passed in the
ranking by the runner up Javier whose score
climbed from 560 to 628 points. And this is
the explanation: According to the rules just
5 races with factors 0,5 or 1 are considered.
In his 5th race of that kind Javier earned the
full 68 points. On the other side it was Jesse´s
6th so he couldn't get full points for his victory.
Next fastest at the four towers were Eric Leninger,
Henry Wigglesworth and the fastest Lady Therese
Houlahan.
San Francisco this weekend saw another good
climbing competition; Mark Dolan winner like
last year and Kourtney Dexter clocking a new
course record - unfortunately some problems
with timing chips like last week ...
As the KL Towerthon could not be evaluated a
change in the "Masters-Races" was
necessary - here
you can see see the adapted table.
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MAR
21 |
No home win on World Forest Day at the International
Towerthon Challenge up Kuala Lumpur´s
Menara Tower. For the second time Philip Kipkemei
Rono from Kenya won, runners up Ahmidalam Channak
( MAL ) and Anthony Kosgei Cheptoo (KEN). The
fastest Lady was from Thailand - Naiyana Rakkaphan
won beating Malaysians Noor Amelia BT Musa and
Jutharat Inwichian. Unfortunately so far no
complete result is available for us - probably
the race cannot be evaluated for the World Cup.
Lots of Action in the US last weekend. Drama
at the 24th Big Climb in Seattle: Jesse Berg´s
chip failed. After post race analysis he was
ranked second to last year´s winner Shaun
Stevens Whale (CAN). Nevertheless Jesse regained
the World Cup lead from Javier Santiago ! The
female race went to Kourtney Dexter - her third
win in a row in Seattle. Due to an (Olympic)
date collision Shaun Stevens Whale could not
defend his second title won last year at Vancouver´s
"Climb the Wall". Eric Leninger dominated
in Milwaukee und is now 5th in the World Cup.
Some other climbers risings in the ranking this
weekend were Chad Kreiley with his Tampa win
and from the Philadelphia race David Tromp,
Chris Solarz and Briana Wight to name a few. |
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MAR
14 |
The Scale the Strat
- a two day event - was held for the second
time in Las Vegas.
On the impressive Stratosphere Tower Javier
Santiago was by far the fastest climber -
his 7:26,04 are a new course record. This
victory also means for him to take back the
World Cup lead from Jesse Berg. On the places
the Crossman twins and Michael Schramm.
Fastest Lady in the sunday final for the fastest
from the saturday qualification climb was
like last year Courtney Swenson - for the
second time she was the only female climber
doing it sub10 ! Runner up like last year
Erica Schramm. |
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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
- a family affair ! |
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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
21. |
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