Puzzling World Junior Challenge Wanaka

Join hundreds of budding triathletes, from Years 1 to 6 in the Puzzling World Junior Challenge Wanaka. It doesn’t matter if you’ve never raced triathlon before. The Junior Challenge event provides a fun and safe opportunity for all children to challenge and compete individually against their peers in a fun and safe environment.

Swim through Lake Wanaka at Glendhu Bay, bike along the Glendhu Bay lake front and run onto the red carpet and through the Challenge Wanaka finish! You will feel like a real champion as you cross the finish line and are awarded a medal, a T-shirt and more prizes from Puzzling World.

The top girl and boy competitors in each age group will be presented with medals at prize-giving and be given the opportunity to be the balloon kids for the Challenge Wanaka lead pro male and female athletes on the Saturday. 

We hope you will come along for a day of action packed fun and the opportunity to give triathlon a go!

Please note that further information for the 2021 race is being compiled. The handbook and race day information will be available soon!

 Year group categories will be allocated based on the child’s current school year as of the 1^st of January 2021.

• All local Wanaka Primary, Take Karara, Holy Family and Hawea Flat children will register online through their school. Information will be provided in the school newsletter.
• All other junior competitors (not from local schools) can register through the Challenge Wanaka entry system.

Picking up your registration race pack

All local school children (Wanaka Primary, Take Kerara and Holy Family students) will be given their race packs at their local school by their teachers on the Tuesday or Wednesday of race week.

All other junior competitors who do not attend local schools or anyone from Tarras, Makarora or local home school kids; can pick up their registration packs from the Junior Challenge desk, located at Race HQ in the Glendhu Station Woolshed during race week from Wednesday the 17th of February between the times of 9am and 5pm.  Registration packs can also be picked up on the morning of the event from the registration area.

Race Packs

Race packs will include:

• A race number, in the form of a wrist band. Non local students will receive 2 wrist bands. One for their mum or dad to pick up kids at the finish line
• A bike number (kindly donated by Print it Wanaka) that can be mounted between the handlebars of each child’s bike
• A timing device to go on your ankle 
• A Junior Challenge T-shirt
• A numbered helmet sticker
• A swim cap
• Instructions on what to do with all of your race pack contents
• Brief last minute instructions for race day
• A race map