The 2021 Virtual OCR World Championships are open now. Hosted by World Obstacle, entry is free and anyone can compete in the global virtual challenge. The top 4 men and women will qualify to compete in the finals round for gold, silver, and bronze medals,
Over on Spartan’s YouTube channel you can watch some of the world’s top athletes compete in the free online series the “Spartan Games: Battle of the Fittest”. Among the lineup is Emma Chapman who was born in New Zealand. A former New Zealand women’s national
Parkour is the official new discipline of gymnastics. At least according to gymnastics. Gymnastic’s national member organisations recently voted at a congress in Baku to ratify moves by their international federation, the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG), to incorporate parkour into the sport. Gymnastics started
This weekend, a team of six athletes from New Zealand will compete in the Obstacle Course Racing World Championships! The Obstacle Course Racing World Championships (OCRWC) take place October 19-21 in London, England. The New Zealand Black Warriors team consists of Scotty Thornton, Caleb Scowen,
New Zealander India Henry was one of six women who set a Ninja Warrior record after they successfully climbed the warped wall on season two of Australian Ninja Warrior. Henry, formerly of Gore but now residing in Australia, smashed her way through her heat on
New Zealander, and four-time IndyCar champion, Scott Dixon tried his hand at the popular show American Ninja Warrior during season 10, in the build-up to the famed Indy 500 event. How did he do? You can watch his Ninja Warrior run below:
‘Australian Spartan’ has been pulled from its primetime tv slot in Australia after just two episodes. The move follows disappointing ratings for the big budget series, scoring just 524,000 viewers for its second episode. Its premiere gained just 816,000 viewers. In New Zealand, the show
World’s Toughest Mudder Moving to Australia? Tough Mudder recently posted a video to its Facebook page implying that 2017 will be the last year for World’s Toughest Mudder in Lake Las Vegas. The post is embedded below. Around the same time Tough Mudder Australia posted
Parkour Earth has been officially established as the International Federation for the sport of parkour. The move comes after the international federation for Gymnastics, Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG), announced earlier this year it would govern parkour by creating a new gymnastics discipline proposed for Olympic
In big news for Oceania, an OCR 24 Hour Enduro Championship was announced last month, to take place in Australia at Lower Portland, just outside of Sydney in 2018. The event is being produced as a partnership between the Australian owned race series True Grit, Destination New