The Amazing Race 20
| The Amazing Race 20 | |
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| Season Run | February 19 – May 6, 2012 |
| Filming dates | November 26 – December 19, 2011 |
| No. of Episodes | 11 |
| Winning team | Rachel Brown & Dave Brown, Jr. |
| All-Stars |
Brendon Villegas & Rachel Reilly, Mark Jackson |
| Season Stats | |
| Continents visited | 5 |
| Countries visited | 9 |
| Cities visited | 22 |
| No. of legs | 12 |
| Distance traveled | 36,000 mi (58,000 km) |
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The Amazing Race 20 is the twentieth installment of the reality television show The Amazing Race. The Amazing Race 20 features eleven teams of two, each with a pre-existing relationship, in a race around the world.
The twentieth Race premiered on Sunday, February 19, 2012. It aired on CBS in the United States on Sunday nights at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT with the two-hour season finale on May 6, 2012. The show is hosted by Phil Keoghan.
Married couple Rachel and Dave Brown, Jr., were the winners of The Amazing Race 20. They also set a record on the American version of the show for winning the most legs in a single season, at eight.
CBS renewed the series for its 20th season in June 16, 2011. This season spans a little over 36,000 miles (58,000 km) in twenty-two cities and five continents with first-time visits to Paraguay and Azerbaijan. It featured tasks where teams are forced to skydive in Argentina, visit a famous castle that inspired Disney in Germany and train with Maasai warriors in Tanzania. Italy was also confirmed for this season.
In Leg 8, two teams (Brendon and Rachel and Vanessa and Ralph) survived a Double U-Turn and were not eliminated.
During Leg 10, Bopper and Mark won the Fast Forward, yet were eliminated on the same leg, marking the second time in the show's history that this has happened (the first time being Dennis and Andrew on Leg 3 of season 3).
The cast includes former Big Brother contestants Brendon Villegas and Rachel Reilly as well as Major League Soccer players Elliot and Andrew Weber, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus clowns Dave and Cherie Gregg and professional golfer Maiya Tanaka who previously appeared on the Golf Channel's reality competition The Big Break. It also includes a pair of federal agents (who lied to other teams by saying they were kindergarten teachers), United States Border Patrol agents, and dating divorcees.
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