Hi Seoul Festival High Wire championship

We saw a couple of the competitors in the Hi Seoul High Wire world championship event on Saturday morning. It was perfect weather for the final day of the three day competition: warm and bright with very little wind.

First to go was Valery Svezhov. He walked a steady pace and made it safely across the 1,000 meter long steel rope across the Han river in just over 22minutes. I caught this shot of him afterwards.


Second to go across was the Colombian Alan Martinez. He set off at a blistering pace in an attempt to surpass the target time of 11 minutes 22.49 seconds set by Abudusataer Wujiabudula of China on the first day of the event.

This is a 30 second clip of our view from the ground, of Alan 22 meters above us.



Sadly his time of 11 minutes 30.54 was just 9 seconds slower than Abusataer who remained unbeaten and went on to take the $15,000 first prize. The news stories I found did not have the full results, so here are the final results for the 15 who completed the crossing out of the 18 competitors.

Name	Country	Time
Abudusataer Wujiabudula	CHN	11:22.49
Alan Martinez	COL	11:30.54
Jade Kindar-Martin	USA	11:35.54
Adili Wuxiuer	CHN	11:53.93
Bekhzod Tashkenbaev	UZB	13:02.20
Laszlo Antal Simet	HUN	14:22.45
Jorge Arturo Ojeda	ECU	14:50.41
Pedro Carrillo	USA	17:05.09
Wontae Kwon	KOR	17:06.77
Tsutomu Okamoto	JPN	17:34.86
Valery Svezhov	RUS	22:45.00
Ayixiguli Maimaitimin	CHN	31:40.58
Yana Kazanbaeva	RUS	35:23.42
Olga Simet	HUN	35:49.73
Daisuke	JPN	41:23.97