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Eighth Tortola Torture Set For 2023

Dec 5, 2022

The eighth edition of the Tortola Torture ultramarathon will take place on Saturday, April 15, 2023, on the island of Tortola in the British Virgin Islands. The Tortola Torture is open to individuals, 2-person, and 3-person relay teams.  It’s a 33.74 mile (54km) ultramarathon that circumnavigates Tortola with only 22% on the flat and the…

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Husband & Wife Duo Take Top Slots In 2022 Torture

Apr 13, 2022

The seventh edition of the Tortola Torture took place on Saturday, April 9, with 38 runners competing. In an event first, husband and wife duo – Roddy and Kerry-Ann Dos Santos – took top honours winning the individual mens and womens respectively. Roddy, current record holder for the the 2-person team with Guy Williamson, completed…

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Seventh Tortola Torture This Weekend

Apr 5, 2022

The 2022 edition of the Tortola Torture will take place on Saturday, April 9, with 38 runners competing. Thirteen men and six women will be competing as individuals. They will be joined on the course by one 2-person, and six 3-person teams.

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2021 Event Brings On The Heat

Apr 21, 2021

Seventy-one runners took part in the 2021 KPMG Tortola Torture FU Covid edition. Twenty men and eleven ladies ran as individuals and there were five 2-person and ten 3-person teams. The day was hot, it was hard, it was the Torture!
 Storming Sam Thompson, a 22-year old BVI newbie, caught organisers by surprise by winning the mens with a time of 06:11:37. Justin Smit, competing in his first ever running event, was second with a time of 06:29:26 and Toni Bonzon, who competed in a 2-person team last year, was third in 06:57:46.

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2021 FU Edition Preview

Apr 15, 2021

Seventy-one runners will be competing in the 2021 KPMG Tortola Torture FU Covid edition. Twenty men and eleven ladies are running as individuals and there are five 2-person and ten 3-person teams.

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Kanberra Tea Tree Oil products for KPMG Tortola Torture competitors

Kanberra Tea Tree Oil Products For Our Competitors

Mar 23, 2021

B&G Marine Services, as the BVI dealer for Kanberra products, has joined the 2021 KPMG Tortola Torture as the “sanitizing and freshness” sponsor.

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2021 Event Planned To Go Ahead; Format Changes & Protocols Will Be Introduced

Jan 28, 2021

We are planning to go ahead with the 2021 FU Covid edition of the KPMG Tortola Torture, subject to any government restrictions and protocols that may be in place at the time, particularly on the limitations for group gatherings.

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FU Covid Edition 2021

Sep 9, 2020

2020 event rolls over to 2021, to be held on April 17 as the FU Covid edition. We hope that FU Covid will be as successful as the FU Irma edition in 2018!

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Event Postponed to later in year; date still to be set

Mar 18, 2020

2020 event postponed. We are looking for a suitable new date in the latter part of the year, but while the situation is changing so quickly, we don’t want to fix a new date which may have to change again.  These are extraordinary times.  We will send regular updates until there is more certainty.  All entries will automatically roll over into the new date.

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