World Highwire Championships
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[edit] The 1st World Highwire Championships
Held May 3-5, 2007 in Seoul, Korea during the city's annual Hi Seoul Festival, the competition is a test of balance, agility, concentration and, more specifically, speed. Competitors race individually across a thin cable, 30-millimeters thick, which is stretched one-kilometer long over the Han River.
Of the 18 highwire walkers competing, 16 successfully completed the walk, earning the distinction of co-owning the Guinness World Record for longest skywalk.
Two competitors were disqualified for non-completion of the walk. One, Wang Hui of China, tired halfway through and jumped into the water a few meters below him where a rescue boat was waiting while another, Alexey Marchenko of Russia, made a misstep just 100 meters from the end and fell about 10 meters. Both were wet but uninjured and jovial.
[edit] Final Results
| Pos. | Name | Country | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Abudusataer Wujiabudula |
China | 0:11:22.49 |
| 2 |  Alan Martinez |
Colombia | 0:11:30.54 |
| 3 |  Jade Kindar-Martin |
USA | 0:11:35.54 |
| 4 | Adili Wuxiuer |
China | 0:11:53.93 |
| 5 |  Bekhzod Tashkenbaev |
Uzbekistan | 0:13:02.20 |
| 6 | Laszlo Antal Simet |
USA | 0:14:22.45 |
| 7 |  Jorge Arturo Ojeda |
Ecuador | 0:14:50.41 |
| 8 | Pedro Carrillo |
USA | 0:17:05.09 |
| 9 |  Wontae Kwon |
South Korea | 0:17:06.77 |
| 10 |  Tsutomu Okamoto |
Japan | 0:17:34.86 |
| 11 |  Valery Svezhov |
Russia | 0:22:45.00 |
| 12 | Ayixiguli Maimaitimin |
China | 0:31.40.58 |
| 13 | Yana Kazanbaeva |
Russia | 0:35:23.42 |
| 14 |  Olga Simet |
Hungary | 0:35:49.73 |
| 15 | Daisuke |
Japan | 0:41:23.97 |
| X | Wang Hui |
China | Disqualified |
| X | Alexey Marchenko |
Russia | Disqualified |
| ? | Ekaterina Maksimova |
Russia | TBD |
