Supported athlete Natalie White was on the podium in both races in the Milan stair running champs. An excellent performance considering she has only just recovered from a hamstring injury sustaining over the xmas period.

The 4th Vertical Sprint took place last Sunday (24th January 2010) with a first heat up the Pirelli building, 31 floors, 710 steps, followed by another heat – 39 floors and 866 steps on the Lombardy Region’s spectacular new headquarters, inaugurated today. One-hundred-and-eighty athletes from ten countries took the city by storm in this extraordinary, original skyscraper race, the world’s only double tower race.

Next stop on the nine-race Vertical World Circuit® is New York’s Empire State Building Run-Up on February 2, followed only five days later by the NSPCC StepChange, the first race on London’s Gherkin, and on to Basel, Berlin, Taipei, Sydney, Barcelona and the final in November in Singapore.

Links below:

http://www.mudsweatandtears.co.uk/2010/01/25/milans-vertical-sprint-a-double-tower-triumph/

http://www.verticalrunning.org/3skl/vortal/vistasrl/index.jsp?id_lingua=0&id_struttura=104&idManifestazione=4&opzione=Gallery&anteprima=-1

http://www.podisti.it/foto/092009/displayimage.php?album=1082&pos=6

http://www.podisti.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4376:milano-vertical-sprint&catid=51:primapagina&Itemid=97

Women’s results

1° DANIELA VASSALLI (Italy) 9’58”03 (Grattacielo Pirelli 4’40”12 – Altra Sede 5’17”91)

2° ANNA FROST (New Zealand) 10’23”79 (Grattacielo Pirelli 4’55”49 – Altra Sede 5’28”30)

3° NATALIE WHITE (Great Britain) 10’46”58 (Grattacielo Pirelli 5’00”81 – Altra Sede 5’45”46)

4° TINA GOMEZ (Spain) 11’03”00 (Grattacielo Pirelli 5’07”36 – Altra Sede 5’55”64)5° CRISTINA BONACINA (Italy) 11’59”20 (Grattacielo Pirelli 5’34”49 – Altra Sede 6’24”71)6° MICHELA ACQUISTAPACE (Italy) 12’09”00 (Grattacielo Pirelli 5’41”00 – Altra Sede 6’28”00)7° ELENA CASIRAGHI (Italy) 12’19”13 (Grattacielo Pirelli 5’48”40 – Altra Sede 6’30”73)8° ANNAMARIA GALBANI (Italy) 12’41”23 (Grattacielo Pirelli 5’57”65 – Altra Sede 6’43”58)9° SARA DE MARIA (Italia) 12’55”24 (Grattacielo Pirelli 5’54”82 – Altra Sede 4’25”52)10° NADIA BOLIS (Italy) 13’17”61 (Grattacielo Pirelli 5’52”96 – Altra Sede 7’24”65)

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