Ultimate Athlete OCR — Mount Maunganui (historical obstacle programme)

Reports and event feedback

• Michael Voss and Lydia O’Donnell — demanding obstacles and an uphill sandbag carry ↗

  Selected participants interviewed by Annemarie Quill / SunLive · 2021

  Both selected elite participants describe the course as demanding, particularly the uphill sandbag carry. Michael says his physical work helped him; Lydia finds the obstacles challenging despite her running background.

  The complete original onsite article explicitly dates the Mount Maunganui event 12 June 2021 and identifies the elite Ultimate Beast as nominally ten kilometres with twenty-four obstacles. These are two selected voices in one containing publication, not two independently collected review sources. Reported placings, times and cash/kit prizes are not quality scores or independently checked results. Entry funding is unstated; the interviews concern successful elite participants and do not assess every ability group or the changed 2026 functional-fitness programme. Medical, training and unrelated promotional material are excluded. No numerical overall is supplied.

• Georgia Burt — an enjoyable team outing after pre-race nerves ↗

  Georgia Burt, selected by her employer ZM · 2024

  Says she was nervous beforehand but found the beach obstacle outing extremely enjoyable and wanted to return. The account describes teammates helping at the warped wall.

  The complete original short broadcaster article and selected quotation were read. Publication metadata dates it 16 April 2024, and its stated intention to return in 2025 supports the 2024 context; the exact raced day and class length are unstated. Georgia is a ZM presenter participating with an Under Armour team, so this is employer-selected promotional coverage with a brand affiliation and unknown entry funding. The embedded social post and video were not separately read and are not additional sources. Her enthusiasm does not provide a numerical overall or assess the changed 2026 functional-fitness classes.

Event details

Dates

Last listed edition: Sat 12 Jun 2021

Formats

Historical Ultimate Beast — nominal 10 km / 24 obstacles · Other historical individual and team obstacle classes — exact lengths unverified

Place

Main Beach, Mauao base track and Mount Drury — historical course; precise entrance unverified, Mount Maunganui / Tauranga, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand

Series

Ultimate Athlete

• The original onsite report identifies 12 June 2021 and the beach, Mauao base track and Mount Drury obstacle-course setting. A separate 2024 selected participant account identifies the same Mount Maunganui programme but does not state the exact raced day. The date shown is the exact historical day verified here, not a claim that no later race occurred.
• The organizer’s 10 October 2026 programme describes eight functional-fitness stations separated by 500-metre or 1,000-metre running loops, with the warped wall or lunges as an optional finish. Those changed classes are not presented here as the historical obstacle course, and earlier OCR feedback is not assigned to them.
• Historical class labels and obstacle counts are advertised figures, not certified measurements. No current OCR edition, precise start entrance or native overall rating is verified.

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