World Highwire Championships

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.

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

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