2026 ASR Open recap 🌎 🌍 🌏

Hey friends, greetings from Paris 🇫🇷

Apex Speed Run is finding the fastest athletes in the real world and qualifying the top performers for the biggest stages. We’re transforming public, outdoor training spots into international proving grounds.

In honor of the first ASR Open, sponsored by Strike Movement, which qualified 6 athletes for the USPK National Championships and 12 for the Parkour Earth World Championships, please enjoy this recap featuring our top players and courses!

→ FULL ASR MAP, STATS, LEADERBOARDS, ETC

• 167 runs submitted

  • ~300 hours of training time

  • ~58.5 minutes of run time

  • ~2.68 miles of displacement

• 51 active players

• 49 active courses

• 27 new world records set

• 15 countries represented

• For the first time, USPK qualifier opportunities for Hawai’i and Puerto Rico, leading to the qualification of 3 athletes

• 215 courses

• 102 cities

• 20 countries

• 270 players

• 1139 runs

Big shoutout to the top 6 men who qualified for the Parkour Earth World Championships this October in Brno, Czechia, and the top 3 who qualified for USPK Nationals in Boston, Massachusetts!

Big shoutout to the top 6 women who qualified for the Parkour Earth World Championships this October in Brno, Czechia, and the top 3 who qualified for USPK Nationals in Boston, Massachusetts!

As the game keeps growing worldwide, some ASR courses have gotten especially popular and competitive. If you can podium on any of these courses, you’re certified fast AF 🔥

1. Bonus shoutout to ASR legends Benati, Leon, and Joey who all crushed it at USPK Nationals and qualified for the SPL5 Parkour World Championships in August!

2. We recently launched a progressive web app for Apex Speed Run, which means you can add it to your phone’s home screen and it will behave just like an app. Check it out here!

3. We also recently soft-launched some new Apex training programs + community resources via our Parkour Skool app. Join us for free 🤝

4. In just 40 days since wrapping the 2026 ASR Open, we already launched 14 new ASR courses in Boston, NYC, Charlotte, and Paris!

5. New YouTube playlist featuring Leon van der Zouwen’s best speed runs 👀

Thanks so much to all 51 ASR Open players for running, setting, and growing this movement. We couldn’t do it without your support.

Want to join ASR? Reply back and we’ll show you how to get started in your area.

Where should we make ASR courses next? Want ASR in your city? Let us know! Anywhere on Earth is fair game 🌎 🌍 🌏

Cheers,
Ryan & Taylor