The Mandurah Island Challenge is a community-based sports event offering athletic and kayaking events for all age groups and ability levels. Now approaching its sixth year, the event is well established on the local sporting calendar, attracting around 1,000 athletes in each year's event.
This year's Mandurah Island Challenge will take place on 25 March 2012 and is again sponsored by ALCOA - long-time sponsors of the Peel Health Foundation.
In addition to the 6.5km fun run/walk and two kayak events, the 2.5km schools fun run/walk continues to gain popularity and attracted entries from around 500 school children in 2011.
NEW for 2012 are the 2.5km Seniors Walk (alongside the 2.5km schools event, and using the same course), a 6.5km Bike Ride run in conjunction with the annual Bike Week (using the same route as the 6.5km fun run/walk, but being run in advance of the run/walk event).
In addition, an optional event will be a water-based "Splash & Dash" event run by the Just-4-Fun Aqua Park alongside the Start/Finish Arch.
With unparalleled waterways, beaches and natural environment, the Mandurah estuary offers an ideal setting for the event, which is complimented by a range of race day activities for participants as well as their family and friends.
Founded by the Peel Health Foundation as a means of raising much-needed funds to address the present and future health needs of the Peel region, the Alcoa Mandurah Island Challenge is well-supported by the Mandurah community and will continue to gain prominence in the future.
The Peel Health Foundation thanks all the event sponsors who have contributed towards the success of the event. Please visit our Sponsors page to see all those organisations who have helped.
As in previous years, a healthy breakfast will be available on site throughout the morning - this year kindly sponsored by Sunbreakers Restaurant. A gold coin donation will be all that is required.
Online Entry is available now, and paper Entry Forms for the 6.5km Fun Run/Walk and Seniors Walk will be available at various locations from mid-January. Click here for details.
Entry Forms for the Schools Event will be supplied through local schools' Phys Ed teachers during Term 1, 2012
In July 2011 the Foundation's Board of Directors launched the Foundation's new project - a mobile health service to provide a much needed service to the wider rural communities in the Peel region. Potential services for the mobile clinic include women and children’s services, mental health, chronic disease services, dental care, aged care services, and diabetes health.
The Foundation, in partnership with major sponsors ALCOA of Australia and Mandurah Barbagallo Volkswagen, has set a fund-raising target of $250,000 to cover the purchase and fit-out of the mobile service. The Foundation Directors hope that with the financial support of the Peel Community the service will commence in mid-2012.
