CURRENT NEW ZEALAND OFFICIAL BACKYARD ULTRA EVENTS
Pigs Backyard Ultra
4th February 2023
Dunedin
Riverhead Backyard ReLaps Ultra
1st April 2023
Auckland
Pigs Backyard Ultra
1st July 2023
Christchurch
Current New Zealand Record
Sam Harvey with 46 loops at the NZ venue of the World Backyard Team Champs in Auckland on October 2022
INTERNATIONAL BACKYARD COMPETITION
The International Backyard Ultra website is here
The three NZ Backyard ultras are official silver ticket events and this means that the winners of each event automatically get selected in the NZ World Team Backyard Champs which are held every second year (the next one is on 15 October 2022). The rest of the 15 person team is made up from the at-large list which is the highest number of loops run in any official backyard ultra between August 2020 and August 2022.
The World Individual Backyard Champs is held in Tennessee (USA) every second year (next in 2023) and this is made up of the winner of each of the 50 nations in the World Team Backyard Champs. In addition to those champions, there will be an additional 25 runners selected from the At-Large list… the top performances of the previous 2 year qualifying period (August 16, 2021 to August 15, 2023).
2022 World Team Backyard Champs
Team Results from the 2022 World Team Backyard Champs
Leaderboard from the 2022 World Team Backyard Champs