Former top Kiwi international athletes Rob and Rachel Hamill have been lured to the returning Mountains to Sea multisport event this weekend to help form a Dream Team.
The Mountains to Sea event ran from 1987 to 1997 before going into limbo returns to the national multisport calender when a field of up to 80 competitors line up tomorrow to tackle the three-day event that tracks from Ruapehu to Wanganui.
The husband and wife Hamill have joined forces with Wanganui athlete Aaron Cox to form what organisers describe as the Dream Team.
Marathon rowing champion Rob Hamill will be taking on the mountain bike leg on day one. Hamill has been a New Zealand International rowing representative for 16 years and his numerous rowing achievements include World Championship silver, Commonwealth gold and a world record on the indoor rowing machine.
Hamill represented New Zealand at the Atlanta Olympics and published The Naked Rower on how he and Phil Stubbs captured headlines around the world winning the first Atlantic Rowing Race in 41 days.