AR World Rankings – May 2017

The next cycle of Adventure Racing World Rankings have now been released online at http://arworldseries.com/rankings/ These ranking include the recent results at Godzone Adventure in New Zealand, Expedicion Guarani in Paraguay and Huairasinchi in Ecuador.

The unstoppable New Zealand Seagate remain on top, but there is just one point separating Columbia Vidaraid in second and Adventure Medical Kits in third. These second and third ranked teams will meet each other in China in June at the XTrail Altay expedition and it will be a race to watch!

The french team Naturex have moved into fourth and nudged the Swedish Armed Forces Adventure Team into 5th place.

Congratulations to to the USA team of Bend Racing/YogaSlackers who have reached their highest ranking to date of 7th. With their experience in Wyoming they may go higher yet with a good result at this years World Championship.

Due to the AR World Championship being held in August this year there are a plethora of Qualifier races in the few months prior to this. So these rankings wont remain current for long with the next update due in just one month’s time which will include the Spain Raid Gallaecia, Expedition Africa, Raid in France and XTrail China.

1 – Seagate – 600 (New Zealand)

2 – Columbia Vidaraid – 514 (USA)

3 – Adventure Medical Kits – 513 (USA)

4 – Naturex – 411 (France)

5 – Swedish Armed Forces Adventure Team – 331 (Sweden)

6 – Merrell Adventure Addicts – 320 (South Africa)

7 – Bend Racing/YogaSlackers – 263 (USA)

8 – Sanlam Painted Wolf – 258 (South Africa)

9 – Shotz Sports Nutrition – 238 (Australia)

10 – Estonian ACE Adventure – 226 (Estonia)

11 – R’ADYS Team Switzerland – 213 (Switzerland)

11 – Haglöfs Silva – 213 (Sweden)

13 – GODZone Adventure OMM – 201 (United Kingdom)

14 – Yealands Family Wines – 188 (New Zealand)

15 – Sweco Adventure – 176 (Sweden)

16 – FMR – 173 (France)

16 – Bivouac Inov8 – 173 (New Zealand)

18 – Swordfox – 158 (New Zealand)

19 – Cyanosis – 155 (South Africa)

20 – Agde Raid Aventure – 148 (France)

20 – Tiki Tour – 148 (New Zealand)

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