A German athlete has sprinted up 91 floors in 10 minutes and 53 seconds to win the Taipei 101 race - a leg-burning effort that took him to the top of the world’s tallest skyscraper.

Thomas Dold, a specialist at stair racing who also won this year’s New York Empire State Building run-up, bounded up 2,046 steps to claim 200,000 Taiwan dollars ($7,030) in prize money.

About 2,500 people took part in the annual race to the top of the Taipei 101 building, which was completed in 2004.