Hangzhou Towerrunning Race 2021 kicked off in Hangzhou Raffles City on Oct. 17th. The race was co-hosted by Hangzhou Sports Bureau and Shangcheng District People's Government. The race featured Men's Open, Women's Open and Family Group, gathered nearly…

LOROS Race Report
LOROS Tower Run on July 3rd was the first major indoor race in a residential building in Europe after more than a year. It is held at the St. George's Tower, a student accomodation in the heart of Leicester. This Midlands town hosts the only soccer club…

Virtual Events May 21
Die Herausforderung Happy Harold 100 Virtual Burj Khalifa Climb Hopefully real races with international participants will be possible in a few month. In May competition still is virtual. "Die Herausforderung" organized by Towerrunning Germany is running…

Q1 Race Report
Sunday 14 March saw the much anticipated return of stair climbing in not just Australia, but anywhere in the world since the start of the pandemic! Whilst there weren’t any international competitors this time, we still had the best in the world competing…

Three outdoor races last weekend and Q1 coming Sunday
We can finally report a few small steps that begin the long-awaited return to the usual stairing times. Last weekend, for the first time in a year, we had three races on a single weekend ! All of them were outdoor events. The American Lung Association,…

January 13, 2021 – National Take the Stairs Day
Today is the second Wednesday of the year - an important day for Towerrunners especially in the Americas !

All the Best for 2021 to the Towerrunning Family !
ARG AUS AUT CHI CHN CRO CZE EST GEO GER ITA JPN MAS MEX MGL POL SIN SLO SVK USA This coming season hopefully will be as different from the last one as 2020 was different from 2019. We are looking forward real race atmosphere on the stairs of our world…

2 Guiness World Records Today
November 18 - Wai Ching Soh (MAS) - Four Seasons Hotel - Kuala Lumpur "Greatest vertical height stair climbing in one hour" - 1295,95m - Ryoji Watanabe (JPN) - Skytree - Tokyo "Fastest verical mile stair climbing" - 1:06:58

2 World Record Attempts On One Day
November 18 - Wai Ching Soh (MAS) - Four Seasons Hotel - Kuala Lumpur - Ryoji Watanabe (JPN) - Skytree - Tokyo Tomorrow we will see another (distance) duel between the two best Asian Towerrunners and this time both can be winners ! "Greatest vertical…

Recent Real Races
October Maribor (SLO) - Macau (MAC) - Piotta (SUI) - Shenzhen (CHN) - Changsha (CHN) November Sapporo (JPN) - Bangkok (THA) - Tokyo (JPN) In this pandemic year 2020 we had 8 real races since October and as of today no more in the calendar ... There were…
About us
The TWA is the only worldwide governing body for this kind of running discipline. Currently the Towerrunning World Association consists of the three presidium members and representatives of nine national associations. The organization is responsible for regulating and promoting stair races on a worldwide basis. The TWA backs the Towerrunning Tour uniting the most prestigious races worldwide and manages a worldwide ranking. World and Continental Championships are held too.
