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Annual stiletto run in Berlin

Part of the Global City Festival - 18-20.Aug.2006

jml

20.Aug.2006 13:40 hrs

Did anyone catch Glamour Magazine's Stilleto Run in Berlin yesterday? It was part of this weekend's Global City Festival.

Here's an English translation of the blurb:

Organised by Glamour magazine, 100 women were invited to sprint along Berlin's Kurfürstendamm. The requirement was that all of them must wear high-heels at least 7cm high and no wider than 1.5cm. The prize for fastest runner was a shopping voucher for €10,000. There was also a €2,000 prize for the most beautiful outfit worn, and €1,000 for the coolest stilletos.

We should enter Toronto next year!

Some photos are on the the CNN gallery.

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Graphic by James Dignan/Unit.

Carm

20.Aug.2006 14:47 hrs

did they offer free foot massages afterwards?

UrbanAngel

21.Aug.2006 07:07 hrs

I saw this advertised a month or so ago. They're crazy!! I wonder how many injuries there were.

Eleanor Rigby

21.Aug.2006 07:10 hrs

Yeah, those women are really going for it too. I always look like a constipated penguin when I run in heels.

bern

21.Aug.2006 07:40 hrs

Oh my G-G...I think I'm actually speechless. My feet hurt just looking at those pictures...

Toronto

21.Aug.2006 07:56 hrs

You know I would kick ass and win that.

wahoo

21.Aug.2006 08:16 hrs

You definitely would Toronto. Three inch heels are nothing!!

bluedave

21.Aug.2006 08:38 hrs

Gotta say 12 seconds for the 100m is moving anyway, heels or not !

Verbatim

21.Aug.2006 08:39 hrs

You definitely would Toronto. Three inch heels are nothing!!

It's not height that matters, it's the speed.

Deccie

20.Aug.2007 12:57 hrs

the 2nd annual stiletto race was this weekend.

winning time 14.7 seconds.

STILETTO RACE IN BERLIN

Photographer in Berlin

11.Jul.2009 15:49 hrs

This year the winner ran 14.2 seconds.

You can see some photos here:

http://www.demotix.com/news/stiletto-run-b...gh-heels-racing

HAL9000

11.Jul.2009 16:49 hrs

Why don't you post a few Glamour shots of them breaking their ankles? It would make the whole thing make so much more sense.

DimanaD

12.Jul.2009 11:09 hrs

omg, i cant miss that!!

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