400 registered for the XV Ascent to Gran Hotel Bali in Benidorm

On May 26, the fifteenth edition of the Vertical Rise to Gran Hotel Bali will be held in Benidorm, starting at 5:00 p.m., which for the fourth consecutive year has been framed in the world circuit of the Tower Running World Association of racing vertical, with category 120, of which only two tests will be held this year in Europe, one in Poland and this, in Spain.

The Councilor for Sports, Arturo Cabrillo, said that this test involves overcoming "a challenge of 52 floors, 924 steps and 190 meters of height" for all registered, "among which, he stressed, is the Paralympic athlete Haki Doku who will descend the building with his wheelchair. " Cabrillo, who presented the event to the media together with the hotel's general manager, Jerónimo Llinares and the sport's technical director of the event, Miquel Tortosa, pointed out that, in addition to the usual Elite and Open categories, this year will be established "As a novelty" a special prize "for the firemen who make the climb equipped with their full intervention suit that reaches an additional weight of approximately 30 kilos".

On the other hand, Miquel Tortosa announced that 400 registered athletes have already been reached "which is the maximum limit" that had been proposed for the competition. He also pointed out that among the participants there will be 32 firefighters, of which "eight, when they finish their test, will also compete without equipment". Tortosa highlighted the international nature of the event in which you can see elite athletes from Colombia, Mexico, China, Poland, Germany or Italy. In fact, in the press conference was present the transalpine athlete Dario Fracassi, who has come to Benidorm to participate in the climb.

The world circuit of the Tower Running World Association of vertical races gathers the main events held around the world, in buildings as unique as the Empire Estate in New York, the Eiffel Tower in Paris, or the Taipei 101 in Taiwan, among others. .