The 2016 Skyrunner World Series was the 15th edition of the global
skyrunning
Skyrunning is a sport of mountain running up to or exceeding where the minimum average incline is 6% over the total distance and at least 5% has an incline of 30% or more. The climbing difficulty does not exceed II grade UIAA. Poles, crampons and ...
competition,
Skyrunner World Series
The Skyrunner World Series is an annual international championship of skyrunning (high altitude endurance races) and the official International Skyrunning Federation (ISF) race circuit for mountain running. Each year the Skyrunner World Series pr ...
, organised by the
International Skyrunning Federation
The International Skyrunning Federation (ISF) is the world governing body for skyrunning. The ISF today counts 41 Member nations. The Federation of Sports at Altitude (FSA) used to be the organization which governed and managed the sports of skyrun ...
from 2002.
From this edition is included a new category,
Sky Extreme
Skyrunning is a sport of mountain running up to or exceeding where the minimum average incline is 6% over the total distance and at least 5% has an incline of 30% or more. The climbing difficulty does not exceed II grade UIAA. Poles, crampons and ...
.
Results
Category Sky
Sky champions of the season are the Italian
Tadei Pivk
Tadei Pivk (born 20 July 1981) is an Italian male sky runner, who won two Skyrunning World Cup in the SkyRace (2015, 2016).
Biography
He won 2015 Skyrunner World Series and 2016 Skyrunner World Series in SkyRace category.
Selected results
Na ...
and the American
Megan Kimmel
Megan Kimmel (born 1980) is an American female sky runner and mountain runner who won 2016 Skyrunner World Series in SkyRace
Skyrunning is a sport of mountain running up to or exceeding where the minimum average incline is 6% over the total dis ...
.
Category Ultra
Category Vertical
Category Extreme
References
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External links
Skyrunner World Series
2016
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