{"id":7692,"date":"2013-08-04T04:44:56","date_gmt":"2013-08-04T04:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disnaija.com\/nigeria-news\/german-wins-chinas-first-skyscraper-race\/"},"modified":"2013-08-04T04:44:56","modified_gmt":"2013-08-04T04:44:56","slug":"german-wins-chinas-first-skyscraper-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/german-wins-chinas-first-skyscraper-race\/","title":{"rendered":"German wins China\u2019s first skyscraper race"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hundreds of runners in China sprinted their way up 82 floors and more than 2000 stairs as the country’s first ever “vertical run” was held in a Beijing skyscraper on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Thomas Dold of Germany emerged on top of the 330 metre (1080 feet) tall China World Trade Center Tower 3, Beijing’s tallest building, just 10 minutes and 22 seconds after setting off from its ground floor to take the men’s title.<\/p>\n
“You have to run between three and four steps per second,” Dold said, adding that he had bounded up the building’s 2041 stairs two at a time.<\/p>\n