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The Australian Three Peaks Race® is conducted by the Port Dalrymple Yacht Club.
Collector's
Edition, The First 20 Years
The Australian Three
Peaks Race has a valuable collection of facts and photos in the 102
page publication The First 20 Years. Order your copy now
for just $20 plus postage and handling. Provided with an insert with latest teams and results of subsequent years.
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Read the latest Speaks newsletter.
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The Countdown
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to race start on Good Friday 22 April 2011. |
Advice for runners
Listen to the round the world sailor Tony Mowbray give his comments on the 2004 race to David Iliffe on ABC Radio. [414 KB MP3 file for Real Player.]
Please support our race sponsors and supporters. By giving them your support the race benefits too.
For those who would like to directly support the race or a competing team please contact us. Favourable packages can be offered.
The British Three Peaks Race is held in June each year.
The Race
The Australian Three Peaks Race is a non-stop offshore sailing and endurance mountain running event, commencing at Beauty Point just north of Launceston on the Tamar River and finishing in Hobart on the Derwent River. En route, the running members of each team have to scale Mt Strzelecki, Mt Freycinet and Mt Wellington.
The east-coast course around Tasmania affords the best combinations of suitable mountains, coastal centres, accessibility for followers, press crews and the public. It brings publicity and exposure to two of the more beautiful but remote areas of the State, Flinders Island and the Freycinet Peninsula, and takes competitors, supporting groups and the media the length of the beautiful east coast.
For competitors it offers an interesting alternative for the yachting fraternity and a challenging new activity for runners, climbers and bushwalkers. It is this unique combination of the two disparate disciplines which provides for such a challenging event.
Recent News
Podium finish for Whistler
Not being quite able to make up sufficient time on the last sailing leg Team Whistler still gained a very creditable third place in the British Three Peaks Race. The first four yachts arrived at Fort William within half an hour and the final results were achieved on the mountain run to the summit of Ben Nevis. Congratulations go the David Rees and his team for such a great result over a difficult and tough course especially considering it was the first attempt by the team to compete on this course.
Thur 24 June 2010
Whistler reaches Fort William
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The Race
Australia's premier short-handed sailing endurance mountain running race is held every Easter in Tasmania.
First conducted in 1989, the Australian Three Peaks Race is a major event on the Tasmanian sporting calendar attracting large crowds at various locations and extensive media following each Easter. The next annual race will start on Good Friday, 22nd April 2011.
The People
Each year competitors are drawn from most Australian states and often there are international competitors, though mostly runners.
For competitors it offers an interesting alternative for the yachting fraternity and a challenging new activity for runners, climbers and bushwalkers.
It is this unique combination of the two disparate disciplines of sailing and running that provides for such a challenging event.
The Teams
The race allows for four divisions; Main Racing Monohull and Main Racing Multihull, Fully Crewed and Cruising.The Main Divisions have the original concept of five persons in a team. The Fully Crewed Division is the growth area ideal for those racing for the first time and those not confident with 3 sailors and 2 runners. More ...
The Course
The Australian Three Peaks Race is a non-stop event, commencing at Beauty Point on the Tamar River just north of Launceston and finishing in Hobart on the Derwent River. More ...
The Volunteers
The race is organised entirely by a dedicated and competent team of volunteers who are situated at many places along the race route. Here volunteers, spectators and runners have the chance for refreshments at Mt Strzelecki base station. if you would like to be part of the volunteer team.
Our Sponsor Partners
Our sponsors are more to the race than the title implies. Each year some of our sponsors travel to various race points to watch the competition and "to be involved". The sponsorship partnership we enjoy provides many joint benefits often not experienced in other sponsored activities.
