In a contest that has seen all four teams take the lead on different legs, it was a hard-fought battle in the last episode on BBC One on Wednesday night as the teams all vied to be first.
Series five of the popular show has seen the participants race across China, Nepal, and India, travelling 14,100km through the world’s largest continent Asia without smartphones or bank cards.
Brothers Melvin and Brian, sisters Elizabeth and Letitia, teenage couple Fin and Sioned, and mother and son Caroline and Tom were neck-and-neck towards the end of the final leg as they headed to watch the sun rise at Kanniyakumari in the very south of India.
Sioned and Fin were the youngest-ever competitors in the show (Photo: BBC/Studio Lambert )And despite stopping for a bird safari on route, they still managed to arrive first at Kanniyakumari by taxi.
Caroline and Tom were the first to make it to the final checkpoint (Photo: Studio Lambert/BBC/PA)After receiving their first instructions to reach the tip of India, the mother and son duo raced through huge crowds of people trying to watch the sunrise to make it to the front of Our Lady of Ransom Shrine and then negotiated to get a boat for 1,000 rupees to Arockiapuram fishing village where they headed on foot to the Vattakottai Fort.
Arriving at the signing-in book on top of the fort, they discovered they were the first to sign the book and had won the race.
Sisters Elizabeth and Letitia arrived a close second (Photo: BBC/Studio Lambert)
Just 19 minutes behind them came sisters Elizabeth, 33, and Letitia, 26, closely followed by Fin, 18, and Sioned, 19, who took third place 45 minutes after the winners.
“It would have been incredible to have come first, but obviously we can’t all come first… we’ve gone more than 12000km…”
Brothers Brian, 62, and Melvin 65, who started the final leg with a 17-hour disadvantage, arrived at the final checkpoint little over three hours after Caroline and Tom.
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Brothers Brian and Melvyn had a 17-hour disadvantage in the final leg of the race (Photo: :BBC/Studio Lambert)
What do you get for winning Race Across the World?
Race Across the World requires competitors to spend 51 days on an arduous trek across a continent with just the cash equivalent of the air fare for the same journey.
The first duo to reach the final checkpoint receives £20,000 in cash.
Caroline and son Tom became the first mother-and-son team to win the series (Photo: Studio Lambert/BBC/PA)“We’ve enjoyed being with everybody but my God this race has meant so much.
While Tom said: “Doing the experience in itself is winning, but to actually get to that book first and open it and to see that it was empty was something that I’ll remember for the rest of my life.”
But days on overnight buses, treacherous roads and sparsely-equipped hostels has also given them a taste for more travel.
“Mum and I want to go backpacking again so some of it will be used for that,” said Tom.
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