The extreme stair run is once again to take place in Vienna, Austria. On August 31st around 200 participants are to attempt to run the 2,529 steps of the 202 metre Millennium Tower. According to organisers it is the ‘most extreme stair run in the world’. This is the fourth time the event takes place […]
Organisers of the Vienna Chess Open have announced there has been a real boom in the number of people applying to take part. The event takes place for the 18th time at Vienna City Hall from August 17th to August 25th. Johann Pöcksteiner, from the Vienna Chess Association said: “Players will not only find optimal […]
The junior World Grass Sking Championships was opened in Rettenbach, Burgenland in Austria yesterday evening (Weds) for the third consecutive year. Keen skiers from ten countries will battle it out to become grass ski champion. The Austrian Ski Team is represented by six skiers from four provinces, including Kristin Hetfleisch, Lisa Wusits and Andreas Guttmann. […]
Swiss cyclist Mathias Frank has won the infamous Glockner stage of the Tour of Austria. The 26-year-old from Team BMC was fastest on the stretch between Matrei and Sankt Johan im Pongau (Salzburg). He was rewarded with a 2,504 Euro bonus at the top of the 15-kilometre climb – a figure which represents the altitude […]
The ski jumping complex in Tschagguns (Vorarlberg) will cost 27 percent more than the planned 12 million Euros. The regional president Harald Sonderegger (ÖVP) said the extra 3.2 million Euros are due to the bad ground conditions. The figure includes 400,000 Euros for damages caused by the extreme weather conditions of June. Project officials are […]
Austria’s star hurdle sprinter Beate Schrott from St. Pölten will compete at the World Championships in Moscow in August despite her current injury. Doctors who carried out a medical test in Vienna on Monay said the hurdle champ would have to miss a week of training due to a thigh injury she suffered on Sunday […]
Over 1,000 runners in fancy dress took part in the second edition of the Schönbrunn Zoo run in Vienna on Tuesday. The six-kilometre route led by a man dressed as a polar bear took the 1,500 competitors around the animal enclosures. Zoo director Dagmar Schratter said: “Everyone was enthusiastic about the run between elephants, zebras […]
The FIS Grass-Skiing Junior World Championships opens up in Burgenland from 31 July to 4 August. Beating off stiff competition, the ski-centre in Rettenbach impressed a panel of judges from the International Ski Federation (FIS) enough to host the World Championships in their small village of 350 people. Johann Gschwandtner of the organising committee said: […]
Top footy clubs will descend on Styria again this year for their pre-season training session. Up to 22 teams from 13 countries including English premier clubs West Bromwich and Fulham, Danish champs FC Copenhagen and Germany’s Bundesliga clubs Hertha BSC will base themselves in the Austrian province for the duration of the 18th Football Camp. […]
BMW-driver and 2012 winner Bruno Spengler came first at the three day DTM Rally Championship in Styria this weekend. BMW took the top three places with Marco Wittmann finishing in second position and Timo Glock coming third. Spengler said: “The car was splendid during the whole race and the team really did a superb job.” […]