Yuncheng Evening News (Reporter Jing Yiping) Between the canyon cliffs, above the rolling waves, 100 meters in the air, stepping on a flat belt only 2.5 cm wide, flipping, jumping, handstanding, running, and crossing...... On April 20th and 21st, the "Climbing the Ladder and Leaping the Dragon Gate" Yellow River Big Ladder Cliff High-altitude Flat Belt International Challenge and the 2024 CHT China High Altitude Flat Belt Tour Challenge-Yuncheng Station was held in the Hejin Yellow River Big Ladder Cliff Scenic Area. 20 top athletes from China, France, Spain and other countries and regions staged thrilling competitions barefoot in the air to compete for the world's "king of high-altitude running".
Flat belt sports is a sport derived from rock climbing, known as "ballet on the rope", players maintain body balance on the flat belt, while completing walking, jumping, somersaults and other difficult movements, is a very challenging, internal and external double cultivation of balanced competitive sports, set challenge, competition, performance, viewing in one, by the majority of young people love.
The competition consists of two events: individual sprint competition and team competition, which are divided into multiple rounds. On the same day, at a height of 100 meters in the visitor center of the Yellow River Great Ladder Cliff Scenic Area, four flat belts with a width of 2.5 centimeters were like line scores, erected in parallel between the cliffs. The athletes walked quickly on the high-altitude flat belt, their hands open and constantly swinging up and down, maintaining balance, and launching a peak duel, staged a thrilling extreme visual feast, showing everyone the shocking fusion of sports competition and fashion art on the bank of the Yellow River.
"Be careful!" "Oops, it's falling!" "This one is so stable!" "Wow! It's so exciting, it's so shocking!"...... The competition was exciting, and the contestants walked on the flat belt, not only to overcome the impact of factors such as fear of heights and imbalance, but also to withstand the test of high altitudes and strong winds. With a 100-meter abyss under their feet and competitors chasing them, the players withstood huge psychological pressure and turned many challenges into danger with their profound skills, which attracted the exclamations of tourists watching the game.
After intense competition, Shi Hailin from China won the individual sprint championship with his extraordinary strength, He Jinyi, also from China, won the second place, and the third place was won by France's Benoit Humm. The team event was won by Wang Junxi and Xiong Baidong from China, the runners-up were Shi Hailin from China and Felipe Mora Jimenez from the United States, and Yu Chao and Li Kangchao from China won the third place.
According to the introduction, this event is sponsored by Hejin Rural Commercial Bank and Shanxi Zhenxing Group Co., Ltd., which is the Yellow River Ladder Cliff Scenic Area to actively promote the "tourism + sports" model, convey the concept of healthy life combining tourism and sports to the public, and create a characteristic development road. The competition aims to promote the development of extreme sports in Shanxi, raise the public's awareness of high-altitude flat belt sports, and promote international cultural exchanges.
Photographer Reporter Xue Jun Ru Ya