We organise endurance events in the South West with a particular focus on inclusive events that cater for all ages & abilities.
Sportiva Events organises over thirty running, swimming, biking and multisport events across Devon & the South West: triathlons, duathlons, open water swims, running races on trail & road & cycle sportives on road & gravel.
25/09/2025
We're excited to announce that we've teamed up with the Green Table Cafe and Dartington Hall Trust, to host two great running events on our local patch (just one mile from Sportiva Events HQ). On Friday 21st November, it's the Dart Challenge. This is a six hour challenge from 9am-3pm where you can do as many or as few 5K laps of the Dartington Estate as you can fit in. The following evening, Sat 22nd Nov, we have the return of the Dark Dart Dash. This was one of the very first events we got involved in organising back in 2014 and after a gap of a few years it's back. Night trail runs around the Dartington Estate with a choice of 10K or 5K + kids races
23/09/2025
Actor Kris Marshall was among the competitors taking part in Sunday's
21/09/2025
Some photos from the bike and run legs at Dawlish today. Lovely day for it!
21/09/2025
Here are the teasers from the swims and sea wall today, all the photos will be available on the results page shortly.
21/09/2025
Well done to everyone who took part in today's triathlons and swims at Dawlish Warren. We hope you all enjoyed it and a massive thank you to all our marshals, Teignmouth Beach Surf Life Saving Club who did the water safety, our first aiders, timing team etc etc. Results are on our website now and photos by our two photographers Nik and Martin are coming very soon. We lucked out with the conditions this year after the torrential rain of last year and the cancelled swim of 2023.
21/09/2025
Sea conditions looking good for today's and at
14/09/2025
13/09/2025
Just waiting for the final finishers at and . We've managed to avoid virtually all the rain although there were a few fairly epic puddles to deal with on the gravel ride. Results in first link and photos coming soon
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Our mission is to deliver excellent endurance sports events covering triathlon & duathlon, open water swimming, cycling & running.
We work to improve events each time we run them & that's one of the most challenging parts of the process. There is no perfect venue and dealing with landowners, traffic, councils, the general public & other stakeholders can be challenging.
Sportiva Events started as a hobby. After moving to Devon from the South East there didn’t seem to be any duathlons, my favourite multi-sport events, in the local area. I spotted a possible bike course on my door step and teamed up with Stewart Bergman and Rory Aitken to stage the first Dartington Duathlon in Spring 2013.
In 2017 Stewart decided to concentrate on his cycling Sportives and I took over the Dartmouth Triathlon and Devon Duathlon and added three existing events from the Torbay area originally set up by Brendon Prince.
Since October 2017 I have worked full time on these events. In Feb 2018 we rebranded to Sportiva Events with the help of the design team at Left Bridge. And in October 2020 we moved some running races under the Sportiva umbrella which were previously part of Something Wild Events.
I now have a great team of people who work alongside me on the Sportiva Events events including Helen Simcoe Walker, Nigel Evans, Dawn Lamerton & Tim Mockford.
