The Amazing Race 15
| The Amazing Race 15 | |
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| Season Run | September 27 – December 6, 2009 |
| Filming dates | July 18 – August 7, 2009 |
| No. of Episodes | 11 |
| Winning team | Meghan Rickey and Cheyne Whitney |
| Unfinished Business |
Herbert "Flight Time" Lang and Nathaniel "Big Easy" Lofton, Zev Glassenberg and Justin Kanew |
| All-Stars | Herbert "Flight Time" Lang and Nathaniel "Big Easy" Lofton |
| Season Stats | |
| Continents visited | 3 |
| Countries visited | 9 |
| Cities visited | 20 |
| No. of legs | 12 |
| Distance traveled | 25,000 mi (40,000 km) |
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The Amazing Race 15 is the fifteenth installment of the reality television show The Amazing Race. It featured 12 teams of two, with a pre-existing relationship, in a race around the world.
The fifteenth cycle started on Sunday, September 27, 2009, with a two-hour premiere. It aired on CBS in the United States, and CTV Television Network (CTV) in Canada, on Sunday nights at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT with the season finale on December 6, 2009. The show was hosted by Phil Keoghan. In Asia, it was on-air on AXN.
Dating couple Meghan Rickey and Cheyne Whitney were the winners of this Race.
The complete season was released on DVD on May 21, 2014.
CBS aired the fifteenth season during the start of the 2009–2010 television season. CBS was the first broadcaster to announce that the show would be broadcast on Twitter, following Keoghan's own announcement of the show's renewal via Twitter.
The fifteenth season spans eight countries in 21 days. Teams traveled 25,000 miles (40,000 km) visiting: Japan, Vietnam, Cambodia, the United Arab Emirates, the Netherlands and Sweden, as well as Estonia and the Czech Republic, which appeared on the show for the first time. It also introduces new features to the race: One team was eliminated right at the Starting Line and a new twist was added, the Switchback, where teams faced one of the series' previous most challenging Roadblocks. The race revisited the infamous Stockholm Roadblock of Season 6, in which one team member had to unroll one of 270 hay bales with only 20 containing clues. Instead of being an exact duplicate, however, this Race's Stockholm Roadblock involved fewer bales (186) and instead of 20 clues, only seven flags were hidden. Additionally, the original version had the nine teams competing; by the time this race reached the task, only five teams were involved. Also, the original version's task leg was an elimination leg, but the leg that featured the Switchback was a non-elimination leg.
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