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Team Namako and Team Soro represents Fiji in World's Toughest Race Eco-Challenge Fiji

Team Namako and Team Soro represents Fiji in World's Toughest Race Eco-Challenge Fiji

By Rashika Kumar
09/09/2019

Team Namako and Team Tabu Soro are representing Fiji in the “World's Toughest Race: Eco-Challenge Fiji.” which is being officially launched this afternoon.

Eco‑Challenge Fiji is a race in which teams have to progress 24 hours a day, uninterrupted, over hundreds of miles of mountain jungles and oceans.

One of the members of Team Tabu Soro is 45-year-old Anna Cowley who says its great to have the chance to compete in an Eco-Challenge in Fiji.


Anna Cowley of team Tabu Soro

She says she got into adventure racing living in the highlands of Papua New Guinea.

Bear Grylls is the host and co-producer.

66 teams from 30 countries are competing against eachother at Eco‑Challenge Fiji.

Each team is made up of four members.

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