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Registration Opens for The World Champs in New Zealand

01.02.2005

Registration is now open for the 2005 Adventure Racing World Championship which is being staged on New Zealand\'s West Coast of the Southern Alps in November.

The Queenstown based sports event management company, Southern Traverse, has secured the rights to run the World Championship on November 11-19th, with the West Coast Development Trust as principal sponsor.

The championship has a prize pool of NZ $100,000 and the winners receive $50,000, 2nd $25,000, 3rd $10,000, 4th and 5th $7,500.

ARWorld Series director Geoff Hunt says there are a number of qualifying criteria for the world event. \"Teams who have placed first in ARWorld Series events automatically have free entry to the worlds. Second placed teams have priority and a range of other criteria is applied which allows teams to enter.\"

There are still several events on the world circuit which teams can enter and aim to win free entry, or meet the other qualifying criteria, for the world championships in New Zealand.

They include the Bergson Winter Challenge in Poland, a new race to the series which will be held in early March, the Appalachian Extreme in Maine USA in May, the new Wilderness ARC in Scotland and the Terra Incognita in Croatia in September.

\"They all offer a great opportunity,\" said Hunt. \"We are impressed with the professionalism surrounding the Polish event and the race in Croatia is well established as one of Europe\'s premier events.\"

Intense interest is expected in this year\'s World Championship because it is being staged in New Zealand and particularly because it is on the West Coast.