ARWS Qualifiers

The Adventure Racing World Championship has begun. All teams are currently in stage one. This is a brutal 122km mountain that has 5800m elevation gain. At the time of writing team Blizzard from Russia are leading and Swedish teams Orbital Adventure Racing and NIAR Adventure Racing Team are in second …

At midday in the town of Monforte de Lemos the 90 teams in the 2021 Adventure Racing World Championships – Raid Gallaecia set off from the Plaza de la Compania.  After a 3 year gap ARWC is back with a bang, with one of the largest fields ever and racers …

The magnificent Plaza de María Pita in A Coruna was the perfect setting for the team presentation at the 2021 Adventure Racing World Championships. After handing in all their gear and bike boxes, and with the race maps not due to be given out until just before tomorrow’s start, the …

“It’s like having our family back, like we are home again.” Those were the words of Brazilian racer Camila Nicolau as she sat high in the Coliseum stadium sorting out her personal equipment for the Adventure Racing World Championships in Gallaecia. Around her, and below in the centre of the …

The Adventure Racing World Championship will make a spectacular return in Spain between October 2nd and 10th, when Raid Gallaecia will stage one of the biggest ever expedition adventure races. The World Championships is the pinnacle of achievement in the world’s toughest sport and is hosted by a different World …

“This Huairasinchi was a really special one, one of the toughest of the past decade for sure. They were extremely hard stages with tricky navigation and on some stages we just concentrated on not getting lost, and then tried to push hard on the more physical stages. You had to …

XPD, Australia’s iconic World Series expedition adventure race, took place in North Queensland last week with 31 teams trekking, biking and paddling non-stop for up to 6 days on a 472km course, starting and finishing in the beach resort of Palm Cove. The 11th edition of the race was one …

Expedicion Guarani returned to the Adventure Racing World Series last week, and despite the enforced break in 2020, it was like it had never been away.  World class teams were welcomed to Paraguay by organisers who could not do enough for them, and presented with a course which was both …

PRESS RELEASE: PANAMA CITY, PANAMA – July 8, 2021 – Adventure racing fans have a new international sporting event to look forward to in February 2022: the Adventure Race Panama (AR Panama). As part of the Adventure Racing World Series (ARWS), AR Panama is an endurance racing circuit where adventure …

The Swedish Armed Forces Adventure Team showed they are as fast and capable at sea as they are on land when winning the Nordic Islands Adventure Race.  They are unbeaten in all 4 editions of the race and beat 3 teams above them in the top 10 of the world …