Welcome to the Federation for Sport at Altitude
To everyone who has ever dreamt of sport – sport in the open air, and to those who have discovered the pleasure of practising sport at altitude. Today, sport above 2,000m altitude is a reality in many parts of the world: running, biking, skiing, duathlons, triathlons – SkySports from the sea to the sky, almost touching the clouds…
WHAT IS SKYRUNNING
Running from the sea to the sky, from the plains to the earth’s highest peaks.
WHO ARE THE SKYRUNNERS
Skyrunners are international runners from different athletic backgrounds. Love of the mountains and running unites them.
WHERE
The Alps, Tibet, Nepal, Kenya, Colorado, Mexico – wherever sky and mountains meet.
THE RESULTS
Many people have asked why the sky, yet skyrunning has already achieved important athletic results: forty races over 4,000m in altitude, ten records on the world’s most spectacular mountains, a marathon on the world’s highest plateau.
Here’s a selection:
Fila Everest SkyMarathon: 42 km at 4,400m in 2:52:57
Fila Kenya SkyMarathon: 42 km to 4985m in 5:03:22
Mont Blanc: 54 km to 4810m and back in 6:45:24
The Matterhorn: from Breul-Cervinia to the summit and back in 3:14:44
The Vertical Kilometer: between 2000m – 3000m in 35:32
The world’s highest marathon: 42 km at a level 5,200m in 3:22:25
Himalayas: ascent to 8013m in 12 hours
PEAK PERFORMANCE PROJECT
Incredible, but true, this compelling new sport transforms a ‘normal’ three-day excursion into a three-hour race. Performances at altitude can today be compared to limits attained in other sports.
To what extremes can man run? How high can he climb in an hour? What is man’s peak performance at altitude?
Now, we are beginning to supply the answers.
The Peak Performance Project is working for this goal with a team of athletes, doctors and psychologists, technical researchers, organizers, promoters and the support of important sponsors.
RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY
Not just empty words but tangible facts. In only seven years, history has been made:
* medical and psycho-physiological research
* scientific papers published in prestigious international journals
* a conference on skyrunning and lectures at medical conferences
* a line of high technology apparel and footwear
* unique physiological and technological know-how
* an exclusive information source for sport at high altitude