Athletes and Ranking

How do you sum up a year of the Adventure Racing World Series?   The diversity, scale and global span are hard to encompass as the Series grows each year.  The numbers provide a starting point, but they don’t tell the whole story. In 2022 there were 35 ARWS races, so …

The latest update on the Adventure Racing World Series rankings has been published, with the addition of points won at the recent AR World Championship in Paraguay, and Regional championship races in Europe, Oceania and Africa.  In total, points were added from 14 races around the world in the latest …

The Adventure Racing World Series Rankings have been updated and there is new World #1 ranked team. The update covers the past 4 months, which have been the busiest ever in the history of the AR World Series.  Ranking points have been added from 6 World Series Qualifiers on 4 …

The recent revision of the Adventure Racing World Series rankings saw a new World #1 team announced, improved positions for South American teams, and a significant effect from the Regional rankings around the world.  The top 20 also shows a healthy mix of nationalities, with 10 different nationalities from 4 …

The Adventure Racing World Series has released their latest rankings update, including results from the recent World Championships in Spain, and 24-36 hour races around the world in the ARWS Regional Series from 3 continents. At a global level, there is new world #1 team, and quite a few changes …

The Adventure Racing World Series rankings have been revised and upgraded.  There is a new world #1 team, and there will be significant changes to how the rankings work going into next year. Before those are implemented, however, the new rankings had to take account of the Covid disruption this …

The organising hosts and the ARWS are still hopeful the 2020 Adventure Racing World Championship in Paraguay will go ahead from 10-19 September. Event Director Gustavo Borgognon said “It is a difficult time and the situation is changing every day. We are monitoring everything closely and we hope by September …

The Adventure Racing World Series has appointed Adrian Crane as Head Referee to work with the growing number of race referees working on qualifying races around the world. California based Brit was a natural choice, both for his adventure racing pedigree and as the most experienced World Series referee.  Crane …

Racing along a beach in the dark on Reunion Island at the last Adventure Racing World Championships 400 Team (France) and Team AR Sweden were side by side, racing to the finish line after the all-conquering Team Avaya, who were already 6x World Champions. They were racing for second and …

Adventure Racing started with Raid Gauloises, a multi-day outdoor epic in extreme environments. Most sports start small and get bigger, longer, faster and harder over the years, but not adventure racing, that started with expedition racing, which is still the pinnacle of the sport. They are the races that get …