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Örnsköldsvik, 23 January 2006 |
| Now we are facing a new exciting adventure racing year, and the preparation for the AR World
Championship 2006, is going really good.
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ARWorld Series Dates to be Announced |
| The dates and events in the ARWorld Series 2006 will be announced on the new arworldseries.com website shortly |
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All Teams Home in 2005 Adventure Racing World Championship |
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All teams in the 2005 Adventure Racing World Championship have arrived home although some a little later than others.
Cross Sportswear crossed the finish at 6.47pm and Sierra International at 7.58pm last night.But the Kiwi team Orion Adventure did not arrive out of the bush at TA 10 until this morning at 8.15am. They missed the after party function and are all in good spirits! |
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Merrell finish |
| Merrell Wigwam have made it to Tauranga Bay in sixth place. |
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Fourth and fifth are in |
| Port Nelson has finished the race in fourth at 4.21pm 22 minutes ahead of Swedish team Halti who came in fifth. |
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07-Sep-2010 01:21:50 |
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MAJOR INTERNATIONAL RESPONSE TO THE 2005 ADVENTURE RACING WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP |
| 04-Nov-2005 22:06:22 |
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March 8 2005: The world’s top adventure racers will gather on the West Coast of the Southern Alps in New Zealand from November 11- 19 to compete in the third Adventure Racing World Championship.
Entries for the race opened on February 1 and more than 50 teams have already registered. The deadline for registration is the end of March and teams will be notified of their selection on April 15.
Teams are encouraged to complete their online registration now if they are keen to race. This would ensure they are included in the selection process.
"The response has been huge," says ARWorld Series Director Geoff Hunt. "We thought there would be a lot of interest but you’re never quite sure till it happens."
Around 65 per cent of the teams entered are international, representing a wide range of countries.
"They are coming from all over. Of the three world championship events the New Zealand one will have the best representation by far. We are definitely attracting all the world’s top adventure racing and endurance athletes."
Teams entered so far come from Canada, United States, Australia, Great Britain, Poland, Croatia, Sweden, Finland, Brazil, Holland, Chile, South Africa, Spain and New Zealand.
Mr Hunt says teams such as the American Nike ACG Balance Bar team which won the world championship in Newfoundland last year will be formidable. Cross Sportswear from Sweden which was runner-up, just 20 seconds behind Nike, will also be after revenge in New Zealand.
New Zealand will field the all powerful Seagate team made up of Nathan Fa’vae, Richard Ussher who has recently won the 2005 Coast to Coast, Kristina Anglem and George Christison. Christison was a key member of Team Kathmandu which won the 2004 Southern Traverse, also held on the West Coast.
Another strong Kiwi assault will come from Merrell which includes veteran racers Jeff Mitchell, Neil Jones and Ian Edmond. American Robyn Bennicasa will captain the team. A Queenstown team includes top racers Haydn Key and Bas Smith who are joining forces with the husband and wife partnership of Wendy and Willy Roberts.
Go-Lite Timberland which was runner up in last year’s Southern Traverse will be a team to watch along with the crack Swedish team Lunhags Adventure. Five Swedish teams have entered the World Championship and the Finnish team Nokia which won the Explore Sweden race held as part of the ARWorld Series will be a strong challenger.
The British team Saab Salomon returns with three members of the Davies family Jim, Phil and Nicky. Nicky who is a firefighter is a well known and popular competitor. She was part of the Greymouth Top 10 Holiday Park team which was sixth in the 2004 Southern Traverse and is keen to improve her ranking this year.
Adventure racers claim the world championship on the West Coast will be a highlight of their adventure racing careers.
The feedback is that it is - "the world’s best location to compete against the world’s best racers" and a "classic epic traverse, the only one worth racing in."
Rebecca Rusch of the US team Montrail sums it up –"Geoff has a reputation for putting on real adventure races. We can be assured it will be difficult navigation, difficult terrain and a quality race course. This will be one of the most c |
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