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21-555: Skyrunning was founded in 1992 by Italian Marino Giacometti, President of the International Skyrunning Federation which sanctions the discipline worldwide. The SWS was launched in 2004 and has grown to represent the peak of outdoor running defined by altitude and technicality. In 2017, Migu Run, an advanced online and offline exercise and health management platform founded in China, became title sponsor of

42-629: A Sky Race, plus the SkyMasters points. At each race, points will be attributed to the top twenty finishers in a symmetric manner for men and women according to the following grid: The 52-week rolling ranking is a ranking based on results over the last 52 weeks. It includes the points earned in MRSWS and Skyrunner National Series and is updated every week. After 52 weeks, any result completely disappears. The end of season bonus pool increased from €66,000 in 2018 to €75,000 in 2019, split equally between

63-409: A base to distribute the end of season bonus pool. The 2019 Skyrunner World Series season runs from April to October. It consists of 15 races in 11 countries and concludes with the "SkyMasters", the end of season race open only to qualified athletes. Athletes are ranked on their top 4 points results of the season, of which no more than 2 can be "SuperSky Races" - races rewarding twice as many points as

84-685: A handful of fellow climbers. They pioneered races on Mont Blanc and Monte Rosa in the early 1990s. In 1993, with the support of the Fila sportswear company, skyrunning took off across the world's mountain ranges reaching from the Alps to the Himalayas , to Mount Kenya and the Mexican volcanoes. In 1995, the Federation for Sport at Altitude (FSA) was founded to address the need for rules to govern

105-462: The 18th arrondissement of the city. In 1905 the first known tower race was held at the Eiffel Tower . It took place on Sunday 26 November and was organised by a publication called Les Sports . The magazine's aim was to pit champions and elite athletes from various sporting traditions against each other in the ultimate test of fitness. Runners, cyclists, footballers plus amateurs were all among

126-609: The 2018 season, three rankings were published: Sky Classic, Sky Extra and Overall. Sky Classic races were 22 km to 50 km long with 7.5% average elevation and a 1,000m difference of min/max. altitude. The Sky Classic ranking took into account the best five results of the season. The Sky Classic category champions were Pascal Egli from Switzerland and GBs Holly Page. Sky Extra mixed races that were formerly known as Sky Ultra and Sky Extreme. These races were over 50 km long with 6.5% average elevation and 1,000m difference of min/max. altitude. The Sky Extra took into account

147-483: The 283 people who took part in the first ever tower race. The event was repeated again in 1906, and the course record was broken. Further events followed at the Eiffel Tower in 1946 and 1995. After a 20-year break, tower running returned to the Eiffel Tower in 2015 with the inaugural La Verticale de la Tour Eiffel event. That race has now become one of the premier events on the tower running circuit. In 1968,

168-581: The 311 steps of the Monument to the Great Fire of London and back down again in three minutes or less. He managed to complete the challenge in 2:32, which was deemed ‘an extraordinary performance’. The first recorded competitive stair race was held on Bastille Day (14 July) 1903 in Paris. Organised by a publication called Revue Sportive , the event took place on the steps of the famous Rue Foyatier in

189-561: The Migu Run Skyrunner World Series. Skyrunning stands apart from other mountain running activities. The criteria of a SWS Sky Race are: Altitude (average and maximum reached), peak reach, running on snow/glacier, grade II climbing difficulty and increased elevation percentage are other factors also taken into account when defining a Sky Race. The 2019 Skyrunner World Series proposes two ranking systems. The single season ranking, introduced in 2019 and limited to

210-697: The Skyrunner World Series, and the 52-week ranking which encompasses all races, including the Skyrunner National Series races. In 2019, the Skyrunner World Series introduced the first single ranking system. The objective of the general ranking is to unify the circuits and key races to make the series even more competitive and define who is the best Skyrunner in the World; a Skyrunner being someone able to face any type of mountain with technicality, speed and intensity, and serves as

231-684: The Towerrunning World Cup. The most important – about 15 so called "Masters Races" – have a predefined factor of 1.5 to 4, whereas all other races are given 0.5 or 1 depending on the class and internationality of the participants. One of the first known reports of stair running took place in London, England in 1730. A barman at the Baptist Head Tavern on the Old Bailey took part in a challenge to see if he could run up

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252-527: The Vertical discipline and highlight the Vertical Kilometer® skyrunning discipline. Tower running Tower running is a sport which involves running up tall man-made structures. Usually the races take place on the internal staircases of skyscrapers , but the term can cover any foot race which involves a course that ascends a man-made structure. Tower running races often take place at

273-444: The best four results of the season and was won by Pere Aurell of Spain and America's Hillary Gerardi. Overall - all athletes scoring points in any race entered the overall ranking. Their best two results in each category counted for the final ranking. That is the results of the singles races of the various years. Skyrunning Skyrunning is a sport of mountain running above 2,000 metres (6,600 ft) where

294-533: The disciplines contested at the Skyrunning World Championships and Skyrunning Continental Championships. More disciplines are under the ISF regulations: Annual world championship . Annual European championship . Annual world cup , launched in 2004, has grown to represent the peak of outdoor running defined by a vertical climb, altitude, and technical difficulty. Annual cup to promote

315-643: The first Empire State Building Run Up (ESBRU). The ESBRU event has run every year since, except for being canceled in 2020 due to COVID-19, and is the longest continuously running stair racing event in the world. Several more races popped up in the US, and at other venues around the world, such as Singapore, throughout the 1980s, and the sport has been slowly growing since. 2015 saw the inaugural World Championship in Doha , Qatar, with Andrea Mayr (AUT) and Piotr Łobodziński (POL) crowned champions. The 2018 World Championship

336-630: The minimum average incline is 6% over the total distance and at least 5% has an incline of 30% or more. The climbing difficulty does not exceed II grade UIAA . Poles, crampons, and hands may be used to aid progress. The governing body is the International Skyrunning Federation . The sport comprises a number of different disciplines from the short, steep Vertical Kilometer to the more popular SkyRace and SkyMarathon. Ultra SkyMarathons are becoming increasingly popular as are short vertical SkySpeed races which include skyscraper racing . The idea of skyrunning came from Italian mountaineer Marino Giacometti and

357-611: The publication of numerous scientific articles. Today, the sport is managed by the International Skyrunning Federation , formed in 2008 by the board and members of the FSA and founding nations. The principal aims of the ISF are the direction, regulation, promotion, development, and furtherance of skyrunning and similar multisport activities on a worldwide basis. ISF sanctions the Skyrunner World Series . The three main disciplines are Sky, SkyUltra, and Vertical. Those are

378-486: The sport and generally manage this fast-growing discipline, which today counts some 200 races worldwide with around 50,000 participants from 65 countries. The first 10 years of skyrunning history was spent studying the limits of human performance at high altitudes. This was done through the Peak Performance Project, coordinated by Dr. Giulio Sergio Roi, which involved several researchers and has led to

399-770: The sport made its debut in the United Kingdom . Teams from the University of London and the University of Edinburgh went head-to-head at the BT Tower in London, with the Edinburgh team taking victory. That inter-university event was repeated in 1969 and 1970, after which there were years of inactivity for the sport in the UK. Tower running made its debut in the United States in 1978, when Fred Lebow organised

420-601: The top 10 ranked male and female athletes of the season. To be eligible for the end of season bonus pool, athletes must participate in a minimum of four races, at least two must be Sky Races and start at the SkyMasters race. 33 km, 2,400m+ 32 km, 2,819m+ 74 km, 4,350m+ / *SuperSky Race 27km, 1,980m+ 56 km, 4,100m+ 34 km, 2,700m+ / *SuperSky Race 44 km, 3,200m+ 42 km, 3,325m+ / *SuperSky Race 55 km, 4,141m+ 21 km, 2,280m+ 57 km, 4,700m+ 24 km, 2,800m+ / *SuperSky Race 27 km, 2,650m+ 66km, 4,400m+ 37 km, 2,575m+ 27 km, 2,600m+ For

441-853: The world's tallest structures, including Taipei 101 ( Taipei ), Menara Tower ( Kuala Lumpur ), Willis Tower ( Chicago ), CN Tower ( Toronto ), Eiffel Tower ( Paris ), Varso Tower ( Warsaw ), Tower 42 ( London ), Eureka Tower ( Melbourne ), Swissôtel ( Singapore ), the Empire State Building ( New York ), the Bitexco Financial Tower ( Ho Chi Minh City ), and the Torre Colpatria ( Bogotá ). Races are held in either time trial or mass-start format and attract elite athletes from various sports, often with large sums of prize money. The results of more than 160 races on all continents are evaluated each year for

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