| Event | Type | Record Holder | Time | Date | Notes | Full Results |
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| Vertical Kilometer | running | Marco De Gasperi | 34m41s | 7/14/03 | Marco De Gasperi did 35m15s in 2002 and this was 17 seconds less than the previous record by Thierry Icart in 1998) he
shot up the 1000m vertical climb of the Olympic downhill run, the Face
de Bellevarde, making him the first man to break the 1,700m/h wall - the
theoretic limit set by physiologists. Corrine Favre has the fastest women's time with 45m12s also on 7/14/03. |
reference |
| Marathon run above 4,000 meters | running | Matt Carpenter | 2h52m | 1998 | Run near Everest basecamp. | |
| Marathon run above 5,000 meters | running | Matt Carpenter | 3h22m | 1995 | Run in Tibet. Carpenter is considered the fastest man in the world at high altitude. | |
| Most vertical gain in 24 hours | biking | Alessandro Forni | 24h | Oct. 19/20, 2002 | Forni climbed 17,650 metres by ascending Monte Bondone 23 times. In total he covered around 500 kilometres at an average speed of 20.88 km/h. He had three rest periods during his record attempt: 18 minutes, 40 minutes and 1 hour and four minutes. | |
| Most vertical gain in 24 hours | running | Adriano Greco and Jean-Yannick Botet | 24h | Aug. 25/26, 2001 | 17,575m! - almost exactly as much as the cyclist above The 703m ascent took place between August 25 and August 26, 2001, on the Massif de Solaise at an altitude between 1.836m and 2,539m. Descent was by chairlift down the same course giving the athletes time to rest and take in liquids (12 litres) and nourishment. The average speed of the vertical climb amounts to 733 metres per hour (or 878m/h if the chairlift is counted). |
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| Most vertical gain in "one stint" | biking | Jens Blatter | 37h | 2003 | We're not quite sure if there really is an "official" record for this, but in the absence of any other claim, it seems that Swiss mountain biker Jens Blatter has just set a new record for the greatest elevation climbed in one stint. According to a report from German news agency sid, Blatter spent 37 hours repeatedly tackling the 705 metre ascent from Visp to Visperterminen in Switzerland, clocking up 27 trips and 19,035 vertical metres. |
reference: www.cyclingnews.com |