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Race Across the World is over for another season as best friends Alfie and Owen are crowned winners with 12 minutes to spare. Having spanned seven countries in their no-fly journey across Asia, the best friends pipped mother and daughter Eugenie and Isabel to the post and claimed the £20,000 prize. Arriving in Lombok after a 9,000 mile journey – without phones or planes – from Sapporo, Japan , the pair looked delighted to finally reach their destination.

It came after a tense race to the finish line, which at one point saw the pairs neck and neck in two boats racing across the water. However, the winning pals were crowned after some brilliant navigation skills at the last moment, as they reflected on their friendship being ‘bigger’ than any race. In third came brother and sister Betty and James, as couple Stephen and Viv admitted defeat a little before the final hours, but shared a tearful moment of mutual appreciation along the way.



The finalists all previously agreed that it was best friends Alfie and Owen who were ‘the ones to beat’ during the final leg of the BBC show – and their worries have proved justified. The finalists all recently said that the competition taught them to ‘live in the moment a little bit more’. ‘Appreciate what’s in front of you rather than having to forward plan all the time or having to have an answer for everything,’ Betty said.

The 25-year-old recently opened up to Metro.co.uk about the most touching TV moment this year s.

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