for the next Eiffel Tower Vertical challenge, which will take place on March 15 2018.<\/strong> 129 runners (including 50 elite athletes and 79 runners selected by a lottery) will race to climb as fast as possible the 1665 stairs\u00a0 of the East pole staircase, up to the top of the tower.<\/p>\nThis original race is a challenging sportive achievement. Americans are actually the ones who kind of invented the vertical race with the organization of competitions in some of their most famous sky scrapers. But the Eiffel Tower challenge is the only vertical race in a completely open space.<\/p>\n
In 2017 the winner of the male trophy was Piotr Lobodzinski in 7\u201954″76, the winner of the female trophy was the Australian Suzy Walsham in 9\u201934\u2019\u201975, and all the runners have been finishing. Which is quite encouraging!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
If you are among the 250 million people who visited the Eiffel Tower since its opening in 1889, you may have climbed the \u201cTall lady\u201d staircases up to the second floor. 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