The Amazing Race 5
The Amazing Race 5 was the fifth installment of the popular reality television show, The Amazing Race.
In this installment of the show, several modifications were made to the rules and features of previous races. These changes included:
- Yield - This was a brand-new element in the game that allowed a team to force another team to stop racing for a predetermined amount of time.
- Fast Forward decrease - This race had Fast Forwards (passes to skip directly to the next checkpoint) on only two predetermined legs, as opposed to previous seasons, which had them on all legs but the last.
- Non-elimination twist - In this season, teams who finished last on non-elimination legs were penalized by being stripped of any money they had accumulated, and by receiving no money for the next leg. In previous seasons, there was no penalty for finishing last on non-elimination legs.
Results
Spoiler warning: Plot or ending details follow.
The teams are (in order of how they finished, starting from the first one eliminated and ending with the winner):
| Place
| Team
|
| 11th
| Dennis & Erika
|
| 10th
| Alison & Donny
|
| 9th
| Jim & Marsha
|
| 8th
| Bob & Joyce
|
| 7th
| Marshall & Lance
|
| 6th
| Charla & Mirna
|
| 5th
| Kami & Karli
|
| 4th
| Linda & Karen
|
| 3rd
| Brandon & Nicole
|
| 2nd
| Colin & Christie
|
| 1st
| Chip & Kim
|
Race locations
The following is a list of locations the teams have traveled to during the race.
- Santa Monica, California (Starting point)
- Punta Ballena, Uruguay
- Buenos Aires, Argentina
- San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina
- Saint Petersburg, Russia
- Cairo, Egypt
- Luxor, Egypt
- Lake Manyara, Tanzania
- Nairobi, Kenya
- Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Calcutta, India
- Rotorua, New Zealand
- Manila, Philippines
- Calgary, Canada
- Dallas, Texas (Finish line)
The Amazing Race 5 was preceded by The Amazing Race 4 and will be followed by The Amazing Race 6.
