Adventure Racing World Series The Ultimate Race of Human Endurance
This year will be the first time that the Huairasinchi World Series expedition adventure race will be held in the lowlands of Ecuador, where the highest point does not exceed 1000 meters above sea level. The city of Tena is the epicenter of this mega adventure and the teams will …
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July, 2022
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8 July
Mountain Magic at Raid in France – Savoie Mont Blanc
Raid in France returned to the international stage and the Adventure Racing World Series this year, with their 11th edition in the majestic Savoie Mont Blanc region of the Alps. It was the first Raid in France since the organisation staged the AR World Championship on Reunion Island in 2018, …
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1 July
Exploring the Endless Mountains in Pennsylvania
The first Endless Mountains Adventure Race joined the Adventure Racing World Series this June as a demonstration race for 2022, attracting a strong entry of 32 teams. Most of the competitors were very experienced US racers, drawn by the reputation and organising talents of Brent Freedland and Abby Perkiss of …
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June, 2022
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22 June
Adventure Racing World Series Partners with USARA to launch ARWS North America Regional Series
The US Adventure Racing Association and Adventure Racing World Series have announced a partnership to launch the ARWS North America Regional series. After the briefing for the new Endless Mountains AR in Pennsylvania (an ARWS Demonstration race) and a presentation from ARWS CEO Heidi Muller, the partnership was announced by …
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20 June
The Inaugural Endless Mountains Adventure Race Sets off into the Pennsylvania Wilds
Thirty-two teams will line up at the start of Rootstock Racing’s inaugural Endless Mountains Adventure Race today. Over five days and 550 kilometers, the 108 racers lining up at the start will paddle scenic waterways, climb and traverse rocky ridges, and trek and bike through some of the state’s most …
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17 June
Expedition Ozark Joins the Adventure Racing World Series for 2023
The Adventure Racing World Series yesterday welcomed Expedition Ozark to their race roster for next year. At a launch presentation in Bentonville, Arkansas, attended by ARWS CEO Heidi Muller, the new expedition race was announced by The Ozark Outdoor Foundation for April 3-8th next year, and the full launch press …
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15 June
Expedition Canada Takes World Series Adventure Racing Back to its Roots
Expedition Canada attracted international teams from 7 different nations to the town of Kelowna in British Columbia, Canada, for the 5th event in the 2022 Adventure Racing World Series. After staging a Demonstration Race last year, the event stepped up to full AR World Series membership this year, with the …
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10 June
The Mountain Designs Geoquest 20th Anniversary race kicks off ARWS Oceania 2022 this weekend
The 20th Mountain Designs Geoquest adventure race will take place this weekend with its headquarters in the coastal hamlet of Shoal Bay, NSW. The race is the first in the 2022 AR World Series Oceania Series, and teams of 4 will race for up to 48 hours; trekking, mountain biking …
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1 June
The Adventure Racing World Championship Goes to Africa for the first time in 2023
The 2023 Adventure Racing World Championship will be hosted by Expedition Africa, and held in the Kouga region of the Eastern Cape of South Africa in October. The race will be the 18th Adventure Racing World Championship, and the first to be held on the African continent. The 700km race …
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May, 2022
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26 May
Adventure Race Croatia – A Remarkable Race For Every Team
Adventure Race Croatia is one of the most popular races in the Adventure Racing World Series, and this year welcomed 48 teams, with racers from 5 continents, including past winners and the current World Champion team. The race took place in the Gorski Kotar and Kvarner regions, on a 590km …
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23 May
Expedition Oregon 2022 Takes Adventure Racing to a new Level of Endurance
Expedition Oregon 2022 was a race which will live long in the memory of the teams who raced and survived it, and of the many thousands of fans who were gripped by the online race coverage. It was a true expedition, a great competition, and lived up to its title …
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5 May
‘A Course Like No Other’ Awaits Teams at Expedition Oregon – America’s Toughest Race
The third race in this year’s Adventure Racing World Series, ‘America’s Toughest Race – Expedition Oregon’, starts on May 9th and the race has already lived up to its title for the Race Director and staff. Just two weeks ago, Central Oregon got hit with a huge snowstorm, blanketing half …
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April, 2022
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25 April
Swedish Armed Forces Adventure Team Top the New Adventure Racing World Series Rankings
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 …
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15 April
Expedition Africa Reaches New Heights in The Kingdom in the Sky
Expedition Africa, the second race in this year’s Adventure Racing World Series, visited the landlocked and mountainous African Kingdom of Lesotho, and it was a race which will go into adventure racing legend. The week-long event took competitors from 11 countries to new levels of endurance and achievement on a …
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12 April
Bend Racing Join Forces with the 2023 Patagonia Raid
Patagonia Raid and Bend Racing have joined forces to stage the 2023 return of the Adventure Racing World Series event in Argentina. Scheduled for Feb 20-28th, 2023, the course will explore the dramatic Patagonian landscapes that have made the region a legendary stop for outdoor adventurers from around the world. …
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2 April
A Journey Through The Kingdom in the Sky – Lesotho Welcomes Expedition Africa
D-Day is here for the teams and Race Directors of ‘Expedition Africa’, who have waited for 2, long years for the 10th edition of their expedition adventure race to take place. Lesotho, The Kingdom in the Sky’, is set to welcome teams, volunteers, media and referees from 19 nations, who …
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March, 2022
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13 March
ARWS CEO Heidi Muller Talks about Life, Family and Adventure Racing
Careful consideration doesn’t always play a part when choosing what you do in life. Sometimes it’s all about emotion, ambition, and taking the opportunities that come your way. When Heidi Muller first went adventure racing 24 years ago, without really knowing what she was getting into, it may not have …
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10 March
The Adventure Racing World Series Returns to Brazil with the Malacara Race
Brazil has played a significant role in the Adventure Racing World Series. It is one of the few countries to host two World Championships (Pantanal in 2015 and Jericoacoara in 2008), and after a gap of a few years ARWS racing returned to the country last year with the Desafio …
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2 March
Team Brazil Multisport Win AR Panama to Launch the 2022 Adventure Racing World Series
A new year of competition in the Adventure Racing World Series began in Panama last week, with the launch of a new race, in a spectacular new location. AR Panama is the latest AR World Series race, and was launched with the backing of the tourism authorities in a country …
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February, 2022
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12 February
The New AR Panama Race Launches the Adventure Racing World Series for 2022
The new Adventure Racing World Series (ARWS) season is here. The series has ten qualifying events for the toughest World Championship on the planet, to be held in Paraguay from September 15 to 25, and the road begins in Panama. Adventure Race Panama, taking place from February 17 to 28, …
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December, 2021
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10 December
New World No. 1 Team and New Regional Rankings in The Adventure Racing World Series
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 …
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November, 2021
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26 November
Expedicion Guarani Is Ready to Welcome the World’s Best Teams to Paraguay for the 2022 AR World Championships
Expedicion Guarani is next year’s Adventure Racing World Championships and the organisers are looking forward to welcoming teams from around the world to Paraguay, to explore their country and meet their people. The race takes its name from the Guarani people, and language (Spanish and Guarani are the official languages …
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October, 2021
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9 October
The Final Team Crosses the Finish Line at the 2021 Adventure Racing World Championships
Team Pena Guara-Sherpa (Spain) were the last team across the finish line of the 2021 Adventure Racing World Championships at Raid Gallaecia today, arriving 16 minutes before the midday course closure time. Not that they were too worried, they even said they thought of stopping for a beer, but heard …
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9 October
11 Different Nations in the Top 20 Teams at the Adventure Racing World Championships
As the race moved into its 7th and final day, 64 teams had now crossed the line, 18 were still on the course (though not all ranked), and of the 64 finishers, 30 had completed the full course. It has been a race with some surprises in the rankings, …
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8 October
Tales From the Finish Line in A Coruna
The finish line for ARWC 2021 is set up by the sailing club marina in down town A Coruna on an open plaza which is part of the modern waterfront development. It’s one of the main tourist and nightlife hubs of the city, giant cruise ships come and go from …
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8 October
Sunshine and Shopping at Sada, the Final Transition
More teams at the Adventure Racing World Championship have been arriving the final transition, which is in the coastal town of Sada at the mouth of the Ria de Betanzos, an ocean inlet which the teams paddle as the penultimate stage of the race. The tidal conditions mean teams have …
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7 October
Estonian and Swedish Teams Complete the Podium at the AR World Championships
The Estonian ACE Adventure – La Sportiva team made one last spirited effort to run across the finish line at the Adventure Racing World Championships in Gallaecia today, and a couple of them even managed a jump to celebrate completing the 610km course. Their feet were blistered and sore, …
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6 October
The Swedish Armed Forces Adventure Team are the new Adventure Racing World Champions!
The team of serving Swedish offices crossed the line in a time of 4 Days 1 Hour and 55 minutes to win the 610km race and take the title for Sweden after more than 4 days of continuous racing through Gallaecia. It is the first time an all Swedish team …
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6 October
You Win Some, You Lose Some – The Estonians Falter on the Final Night
After 4 days of continuous trekking, mountain biking and paddling teams at the Adventure Racing World Championships in Spain have pushed themselves to the limit, and beyond. On what will be their final night on the 610km course, the race leaders Estonian ACE Adventure – La Sportiva set off on …
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6 October
Back and Front of the Race Come Together at AR World Championship
The back and the front of the race came together again today at Transition 4 in As Pontes, when those teams who were short-coursed at TA2 were brought forward to restart the race, setting off again only after the top 5 teams had passed through. Fourteen teams had been bussed …
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5 October
The Leaders in Lugo – Just Minutes Apart
After nearly 3 continuous days of racing, the leading two teams at the Adventure Racing World Championships passed through a checkpoint in the city of Lugo on a wet Tuesday morning. The leading team, Estonia ACE Adventure – La Sportiva, left checkpoint 26 at 8.42, having completed an orienteering challenge …
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5 October
Rivers, Portages, and Cut-Offs
For most teams Day 3 of the Adventure Racing World Championship was spent on the first kayak stage, or trying to get there in time to avoid the first cut-off of the race. Race leaders Estonian ACE Adventure – La Sportiva had spent much of the night on the early …
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4 October
Drama on the First Kayak Stage at the Adventure Racing World Championships
The leaders at the Adventure Racing World Championships 2021 are now paddling the Rio Sil on a 90km kayaking stage, which they began last night. This is stage 3 of 7 in the race, and the teams have been racing for 45 hours non-stop so far, with a third of …
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3 October
The Night of the Navigators – Eastern Europe Leads the Way
The Manzaneda ski resort is the setting for the first transition at ARWC and it took the fastest teams nearly 23 hours to arrive. The length of the trek, the tricky navigation and the bad weather put them a couple of hours behind the predicted fastest time, and it was …
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3 October
Adventure Racing World Championships Starts with Brutal 122km Mountain Run
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 …
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2 October
The 2021 Adventure Racing World Champs Starts in Gallaecia
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 …
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2 October
Final Preparations for the 2021 Adventure Racing World Championships
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 …
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1 October
Community, Pilgrimage and Dedication – The Making of the 2021 AR World Championship
“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 …
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September, 2021
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17 September
Raid Gallaecia Prepares to Welcome Athletes From 24 Countries for the Adventure Racing World Championships
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 …
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3 September
Team Movistar Terra Aventura Win the 18th Huairasinchi Expedition Race in Ecuador
“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 …
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July, 2021
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29 July
XPD Gets Back Out into the Outback to Explore Queenland’s Rivers of Gold
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 …
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21 July
Expedicion Guarani – Back to Its Brilliant Best
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 …
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10 July
Panama Joins the Adventure Racing World Series in 2022
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 …
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1 July
Adventure Racing World Series – Europe Launches for 2022
The first dates for the new European ARWS Regional Series have been announced for next year! The circuit offers exciting new races and opportunities for travel within Europe for 2022, with shorter format events of 24 to 36 hours, designed to challenge the top teams, and to encourage new teams …
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June, 2021
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12 June
The Swedish Armed Forces Adventure Racing Team Win In the Archipelago
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 …
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9 June
The PC 12 World Series Adventure Race – A Dream Come True
There is never a checkpoint #12 in the PC12 Adventure Race in Colombia, because they say it’s the ‘Checkpoint of your dreams’. The race times are all set to 12 minutes after the hour, so this year the race began from Rionegro at 05.12, and to make up for the …
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May, 2021
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20 May
Expedition Oregon Sets The Standard As America’s Toughest Race
Expedition Oregon has always had a reputation for tough courses, and this year added ‘America’s Toughest Race’ to its title. The Race Directors made it clear they didn’t expect many finishers, so teams were in no doubt what to expect, and they relished the challenge of a technical and uncompromising …
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December, 2020
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15 December
World Series Adventure Racing Returns as Huairasinchi Takes Place in the High Andes
The 17th Huairasinchi expedition adventure race took place last week in the spectacular scenery of the high Andes of Ecuador, with teams racing among the volcanoes around Cotopaxi. Thirty-four teams with racers from 8 countries started, and the winners were Ecuadorian team Team Movistar Terra Aventura, which is ranked 9th …
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1 December
New World #1 Team, New Ranking System, and New Regional Races
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 …
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October, 2020
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29 October
Record Entries Show Europe is Ready to Adventure Race Again!
It’s been a challenging year for all sports and especially for international events, and as a result, there will be no World Series, Expedition Adventure Races in Europe this year, but next year is shaping up to be an incredible year for European racing. Race organisers and teams are frustrated …
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