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An Australian man has beaten 75 other contestants
from around the world to win a race up the stairs of the world's tallest
building, Taipei 101.
Paul Crake, 30, ran up 91 floors containing 2,046 steps in 10 minutes,
29 seconds.
Mr Crake, who has won a similar race up the Empire State Building five
times, won US$5,920 in prize money.
The women's race was won by Austrian Andrea Mayr, who finished in 12
mins, 38 seconds and also won a $5,920 prize.
Austrian Rudolf Reitheiger, who beat Mr Crake in this year's Empire
State Building race, came second in the men's competition.
Mr Crake and Ms Mayr missed out the $30,000 on offer for
completing the gruelling
race in under 10 or 12 minutes respectively.
A further 1,001 people took part in a so-called "self-challenging" race
up the skyscraper.
Taipei 101 is 508 metres tall and was finished in 2003, although
Chinese developers have said Shanghai's World Financial Centre will be
taller when completed in 2007.
"Tower-running" races take place up the tallest buildings and
structures across the world.
The Sears Tower in Chicago, the CN tower in Toronto and the Azrieli
tower in Tel Aviv have all held recent events.
Runners also race up the longest staircase in the world - the service
staircase for the Niesenbahn railway near Spiez, Switzerland, which has
11,674 steps.
An event for the long-distance stairway runner also takes place in Radebeul, Germany,
where competitors run up 397 stairs 100 times to equal the height
of Mt Everest.
(Agencies) |
一場國際登高賽在世界第一高樓臺北101大廈舉行，一位澳大利亞選手擊敗了來自世界各地的75位競爭者成為本次比賽的冠軍。
現年30歲的保羅·克勒克在10分29秒內爬完了91層樓、總共1026級臺階。
克勒克先生曾5次獲得帝國大廈登高賽冠軍，此次奪冠的獎金為5920美元。
在女子組比賽中，奧地利選手安德魯婭·梅耶獲得冠軍，成績是12分38秒，她也獲得了5920美元的獎金。
奧地利人魯道夫·賴特格爾在男子組比賽中屈居第二，他曾經在今年的帝國大廈登高賽中戰勝過克勒克。
克勒克和梅耶如果各自能夠在10秒和12秒內完成這項令人精疲力竭的比賽的話，就能獲得3萬美元獎金，遺憾的是他們都與其失之交臂。
另外有1001人同時參加了名為“挑戰自我”的攀登摩天大樓的比賽。
臺北101大廈高508米，2003年正式落成，中國的房地產開發商表示上海2007年即將建成的世界金融中心將比臺北101大廈更高。
世界各地的第一高樓和建筑物都舉行過類似的爬樓比賽。
芝加哥的西爾斯大廈，多倫多的加拿大國家電視塔和特拉維夫的阿茲列里大廈最近都舉行了類似的爬樓比賽。
選手們還爬過世界上最長的樓梯，瑞士施皮茲附近Niesenbahn火車站的服務樓梯，總共有11674級。
德國拉德博伊爾還舉行了距離最長的爬樓梯的比賽，397級樓梯，參賽者們爬了100趟，相當于珠穆朗瑪峰的高度。
(中國日報網站薛曉文編譯) |
Updated: 2005-11-22 09:05
