Mahadev Rizal becomes 8th Tower Runner

Nepal's Mahadev Rizal has become the 8th Tower Runner. The competition was held at Komtar Penang and Malaysia Tower is the running National Championship.

Nepali Participant Rijal was 8th out of 284 participants, reaching the destination in 9 minutes and 22 seconds.

Race course was 83 flights of 1381 steps, 68 floors and elevation gain was 249 meters.

Construction of The TOP Komtar tower started in 1974, and was completed 12 years later (1986).

After the completion, the player Rizal has expressed his commitment saying that

"I'll come back stronger with proper training next edition".

What exactly is Tower Running?

In short, it is a sport of climbing stairs competitively in tall buildings. As sports, tower runs have been around since the early part of the 20th century and are now gaining popularity. In Malaysia, this popularity is greatly boosted by the outstanding performance of our own athlete, Mr Soh Wai Ching, who has become the world’s number 1 Tower Runner after taking up the sport seriously in the last few years. Together with other passionate athletes, he has founded the Malaysia Tower Running Association (MTA) to promote the sports of tower running in Malaysia.

Tower-running races take place in some of the world’s most iconic buildings, such as the Eiffel Tower in Paris, and the Empire State Building in New York.