Australian woman wins race up Empire State Building for a record sixth time

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The Empire State Building.

It took Australian Suzy Walsham just 12 minutes and 30 seconds to win the 38th Empire State Building Run-Up Wednesday night for a record-setting sixth time.

First-time winner Christian Riedel of Germany took the men's competition at 10 minutes and 16 seconds. Racers climb up 1,576 steps, or about one-fifth of a mile vertically, to the building's 86th-floor observatory. To ensure that everyone can safely participate, elite groups go first, followed by the general field in staggered shifts, The Associated Press reports.

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US
Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.