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In his words: 🇳🇿

When you’re a Kiwi, a flightless bird from New Zealand and also the nickname given to New Zealanders, getting to the Firefighter Challenge worlds means flying over 8,000 miles across 19 time zones.

Our flight departed Auckland on the Tuesday, October 15th at 7.40pm and after 15 hours in the air arrived on Tuesday, October 15th at 3.40pm (4 hours before we departed). So technically @hdthevoice is right - we are somewhat time travellers 😂.

As you can imagine time travel isn’t cheap. It roughly cost $3,000 NZD ($1,700 USD) then you have to add accommodation and car hire etc on top of that. A few of us flew over a week prior to try and get over the jet lag and get a bit of training in prior to day 1 of worlds. Thanks to Ana Ruzevic, @croatian___sensation , for making us feel at home and hosting the 4 of us for the week and for Montgomery Fire for letting us train on their tower!

The heat was a shock to the system as we had just come out of our Winter back home and definitely weren’t use to the 30 degrees Celsius. It was great to get some full course runs in as our last competition was at the start of May!

The New Zealand season is only 5 weeks long with 3 competitions starting with South Islands 29th of March, North Islands the 11th & 12th of April and Nationals the 2nd & 3rd of May. Then we have 5 and a half months to train for worlds. The support of the other New Zealanders when you’re on the track is amazing and with 20 Kiwis at this year’s World Firefighter Challenge you couldn’t miss us! 🇳🇿

It has been a great year for team NZ with a number of Lion’s Dens Achieved both in NZ and at Worlds as New Zealand is the only other place outside of America where you can achieve your den! Also, a number of NZ best ever times and a good haul of medals🥇🥈🥉 for a country of only 5 million.

The Sport is definitely on the rise down under and we would love to see some more Firefighters make the trip down to New Zealand to race and do some sight seeing in our beautiful country!

✍️: @aidangrant101 Team New Zealand

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Music City was a blast 💥

Nashville was all we could’ve hoped for and produced some amazing opportunities to capture our community and its athletes and their supporters.

Seven days of shooting the 2024 @firefighterchallenge World Championship Event has resulted in thousands of images for you to enjoy and share.

ONLY IF YOU WERE REGISTERED and competed in Nashville last month should you be on the look out for an email this evening that will contain a link to all of the images. Enjoy and make sure to tag @firefighterchallenge so we can share your posts. Thank you.

The 2024 @gymreapers World Championship Event of the @taskforcetips Firefighter Challenge Series presented by the 2025 Birmingham World Police & Fire Games (@bhm2025). We are in Music City, Nashville, Tennessee, where members of the @servpro FCL are going head-to-head for global bragging rights in “the toughest two minutes in sports”!

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