The Amazing Race Australia 3
| The Amazing Race Australia v New Zealand |
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| Season run | 4 August (AU), 5 August 2014 (NZ) – 25 September 2014 (AU), 7 October 2014 (NZ) |
| Filming dates | 7 March – 30 March 2014 |
| Presenter | Grant Bowler |
| Winning team | Daniel Little & Ryan Thomas |
| Season statistics | |
| Continents visited | 6 |
| Countries visited | 10 |
| No. of legs | 10 |
| Distance traveled | 90,000 km (56,000 mi) |
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The Amazing Race Australia 3 is the third series of The Amazing Race Australia, the Australian version of The Amazing Race. Officially titled The Amazing Race Australia v New Zealand, the race featured ten teams of two (five from Australia and five from New Zealand), each in a pre-existing relationship, in a race around the world for a A$250,000 grand prize.
The show's premiere date for Australia's Seven Network was August 4th, 2014 after The X-Factor's Monday show. New Zealand's TV2 had a premiere date of August 5th, 2014 after its airing of My Kitchen Rules 5.
Australian intensive care nurses Daniel Little & Ryan Thomas were the winners of the race.
On August 14th, 2012, the Seven Network announced the show was looking for contestants for its third series. Despite calling for contestant applications, the show was absent in the Seven Network's 2013 upfronts and was replaced by an unsuccessful revival of the Australian version of The Mole.
The show was then renewed again on 22 October 2013. It was also announced that Seven's in-house production company, Seven Productions would produce the season and activeTV would not be involved, unlike the previous two seasons.
Filming began in March 2014 at Uluru in Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park. The race travelled across six continents and ten countries and covered over 90,000 kilometres (56,000 mi); it is the first time that one of the international spin-offs of The Amazing Race traveled to all six inhabited continents and the race course was the longest amongst the spin-offs (third overall behind two of the American version's race courses).
The Speed Bump was introduced for this series. Replacing Marked for Elimination, it required a team that finished last in a non-elimination leg to perform an additional task at some point during the next leg. The Express Pass returned for the first time since the first series, allowing the team that placed first in the first leg to skip any later task in the race. The Salvage Pass also returned, however, it was awarded to the team that arrived first in the sixth leg rather than the first.
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