The 2020 edition of the Taipei 101 Run Up has been cancelled due to fears around coronavirus. Despite coronavirus cases in Taiwan being currently below 50, the organisers have taken the precautionary decision to postpone the event. No new date has been set for the race which was due to take place on 9th May. […]
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Taipei 101 Run Up (Towerrunning World Championship) postponed following coronavirus concerns
Posted: March 6, 2020 in NewsTags: Taipei 101 Run Up, Towerrunning World Championship
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World Championship 2018: Walsham storms to world tower running title
Posted: May 8, 2018 in NewsTags: Lotte Tower Run Up, Suzy Walsham, Taipei 101 Run Up 2018, Towerrunning world championship 2018, Valentina Belotti, vertical world circuit 2018, Zuzana Krchova
In her 100th tower running event, Suzy Walsham added the title of World Champion to her long list of achievements on Saturday in Taiwan. There were no surprises as the Australian won both races in the two-part championship format. The event began with a climb up the first 35 floors of Taipei 101. Walsham was […]
World Championship 2018: Piotr Lobodzinski defends his title in Taipei
Posted: May 6, 2018 in NewsTags: Christian Riedl, Frank Carreno, Gorge Heimann, Mark Bourne, Piotr Lobodzinski, Ryoji Watanabe, Taipei 101 Run Up 2018, World Championship 2018
Piotr ‘Showtime’ Lobodzinski stormed to victory at Taipei 101 on Saturday to secure his second consecutive tower running world title. In a dominant performance, the 32-year-old Polish star won both races in the two-part championship format to finish well clear of second-placed rival Christian Riedl. The championship event began with a ‘sprint’ up the first […]
World Championship 2018: Harris and Shakespeare ready for action
Posted: May 4, 2018 in NewsTags: David Harris, Sonja Shakespeare, Taipei 101 Run Up 2018, Tower running world championships 2018
David Harris says he will ‘enjoy every painful minute’ as he prepares for the World Championship race at Taipei 101 on Saturday. Harris is in Taipei with fellow Team GB athlete Sonja Shakespeare, with the pair the only British representatives at the championship. ‘I did the Taipei race last year, so at least know what […]
World Championship 2018: can Lobodzinski be beaten?
Posted: May 3, 2018 in News, Upcoming EventsTags: Christian Riedl, Mark Bourne, Piotr Lobodzinski, Taipei 101 Run Up 2018, Towerrunning world championship 2018
In less than 48 hours time the 2018 tower running world champion will be crowned. Who will it be? 2015 world champion and current world number one Piotr ‘Showtime’ Lobodzinski is the understandable pre-race favourite. In March, the Polish star took victory at La Verticale de la Tour Eiffel, holding off the challenge from most […]
World Championship 2018: Belotti ready to push for the title
Posted: May 1, 2018 in News, Upcoming EventsTags: 535 in Condotta 2018, Andrea Mayr, Suzy Walsham, Taipei 101 Run Up 2018, Tower running world championships 2018, Valentina Belotti, Zuzana Krchova
Italian mountain running legend Valentina Belotti will attempt to add a tower running world championship title to her long list of achievements when she races at Taipei 101 on Saturday. The in-form Belotti returns to the venue where she won from 2011-2014, with the hopes of mounting a challenge against race favourite Suzy Walsham. A […]
A guide to the tower running World Championship 2018
Posted: May 1, 2018 in News, Upcoming EventsTags: Andrea Mayr, Kristin Frey, Paul Crake, Piotr Lobodzinski, Suzy Walsham, Taipei 101, Taipei 101 Run Up 2018, Thomas Dold, Tower running world championships 2018
The tower running World Championship 2018 is almost here. On Saturday 5th May, the world’s best tower runners will do battle on the stairs of Taipei 101 to decide who will be crowned world champion. We take a look at the venue, the course records, previous winners and the World Championship race format to keep […]
Injured Mayr out of World Championship
Posted: April 26, 2018 in NewsTags: Andrea Mayr, Taipei 101 Run Up 2018, Towerrunning World Championship, World Championship 2018
The 2015 world tower running champion Andrea Mayr has been forced to withdraw from this weekend’s World Championship event at Tapei 101 due to injury. The Austrian sustained an ankle injury back in February, and has now confirmed her withdrawal from the biggest event of the season. The Olympic marathoner has been largely absent from […]
What’s happening with the Vertical World Circuit 2020?
Posted: May 12, 2020 in NewsTags: Allianz Tower Run, One World Trade Center stair climb, The Broadgate Tower Run Up 2020, Tunnel to Towers Tower Climb, Vertical World Circuit, VertiGo Paris
The first half of the 2020 tower running season has been completely halted by coronavirus restrictions and there hasn’t been a tower race anywhere since mid-March. Dozens of races, including big events such as the Empire State Building Run-Up and the TWA World Championship race at Taipei 101, have been postponed or cancelled outright. But […]
Where is Andrea Mayr? On the trail of one of the world’s greatest athletes
Posted: November 7, 2019 in NewsTags: Andrea Mayr, Empire State Building Run-Up record, Taipei 101 Run Up record, Towerrunning World Championship 2020
In a sport as small and widely ignored as tower running, you’d be forgiven for having never heard of one its finest practitioners. Even more so when you consider this legend has routinely dipped in and out of the sport over a 15-year period, gracing it with short, but lasting, flashes of brilliance before disappearing […]
Vertical World Circuit 2018: Lobodzinski and Walsham win in Seoul
Posted: May 14, 2018 in NewsTags: Alice Macnamara, Lotte Tower Run Up 2018, Mark Bourne, Piotr Lobodzinski, Ryoji Watanabe, Suzy Walsham, vertical world circuit 2018
Piotr Lobodzinski and Suzy Walsham took the first victories in the 2018 Vertical World Circuit on Sunday at the Lotte World Tower International Sky Run in Seoul, Korea. Just a week on from their respective World Championship wins in Taipei, the pair raced up 2,917 steps to the top of the world’s fifth tallest building to kick […]
UK Tower Running Championship 2017
Posted: February 13, 2017 in News, Upcoming EventsTags: Beetham Tower, UK tower running championship 2017
The third installment of the UK tower running championship begins in just under two weeks time on Sunday 26th February with The Christie Tower Run at Beetham Tower in Manchester. The first race of the planned six-race series starts at the tenth tallest tower in the UK and is hosted by The Christie Charity. Two-time UK […]
Mark ‘The Marauder’ Sims retained his UK championship title last Sunday with a win at the Broadgate Tower Run Up. The Liverpool-based elite dominated the five-race UK championship, which began in February, taking four wins and a third place finish. His four victories came in Leicester (St George’s Tower), Portsmouth (Spinnaker Tower), London (20 Fenchurch St and […]
UK Championship Series: Spinnaker Tower
Posted: October 7, 2015 in NewsTags: Spinnaker Tower stair race, Spinnaker Tower-thon, Stair race uk, UK tower running championship
The UK Tower Running Championship Series continues this coming Sunday (11th Oct) with a race at Portsmouth’s renowned Emirates Spinnaker Tower. The sprint race, which covers 530 steps, was won in 2014 by Mark Sims in a time of 2.32 who will be back this year vying to retain his title and add to his impressive second […]
Showtime Lobodzinski crowned Towerrunning World Champion
Posted: March 31, 2015 in NewsTags: Darren Wilson tower running, Mark Bourne stair climber, Piotr Lobodzinski, Torch Doha stair race, Towerrunning world champion, Towerrunning World Championship
The Towerrunning World Championships took place last weekend in Doha, Qatar. In the most competitive stair running field ever assembled, athletes took on three climbs, over two days of racing, to determine who would be crowned world champion. Action began on Friday morning with an open race up the building’s 1,304 to determine the 30 […]
