Each entrant 18 years or older must enter themselves, using their own unique email address. Participants under 18 must have a parent or guardian enter on their behalf.
Registration requires one team member to register as the team captain, and the other team member to then join the team.
Step One: Team Captain Registration. Once you have registering as team captain, you will be supplied a unique team code (check your confirmation email). Please inform your team mate of the team code to join your team.
Step Two: Team Member Registration. Once you have the team code from the team captain sign up online and enter the team code in the optional code area. Follow steps through to enter personal details and you'll receive a confirmation email at the completion of the process.
| 1 July 2021 | Entries open for 2022 |
| tbc | 75% refund closes |
| tbc | 50% refund closes |
| 31 JANUARY 2022 | Entry cut off date for your personalised bib |
| tbc | 25% refund closes |
| 9 February 2022 | Last day to change your MTB start wave |
| 24 February 2022 | Transport refunds close at 12pm |
| 25 February 2022 | Person-to-person transfers close at 5pm |
| 25 February 2022 | All entries and transport bookings close at midnight |
If you need to withdraw due to change in plans or an injury, you can choose to either refund your entry on the current policy or transfer your entry to someone else, as per the transfer and refund policies below.
There are no transfers to the following year's event.
Withdrawals submitted up until midnight 31 December 2020 will receive 75% refund of the entry fee paid.
Withdrawals submitted between 1 January 2021 and midnight 15 January 2021 will receive 50% refund of the entry fee paid.
Withdrawals submitted between 16 January 2021 and midnight 5 February 2021 will receive 25% refund of the entry fee paid.
Withdrawals submitted after 5 February 2021 will receive no refund. And no roll over / transfer entries are available.
Requests for withdrawals must be notified to the organisers via info@motatapu.com. Refunds will be made via the method your entry was paid (i.e. either credit card or internet banking). Refunds will be made within 10 working days of submission.
Changes between events (i.e. Marathon to Mountain Bike)
Changes submitted up until midnight 31 December 2020 are permitted with the difference (if any) in entry fee required to be paid (no refund if event participant is changing to has a lower entry fee).
Changes submitted between 1 January 2021 and midnight 26 February 2021 are permitted with the difference (if any) in entry fee required to be paid plus a $25 change fee (no refund if event participant is changing to has a lower entry fee). Personalised bibs will no longer be available after 5 February.
Mountain Bike Team member changes
Changes submitted up until midnight 31 December 2020 are permitted at no cost.
Changes submitted between 1 January 2021 and midnight 26 February 2021 are permitted with a $25 change fee.
This policy only applies to the 2021 event.
If the event has to be cancelled prior to Friday 26 February, 5pm due to NZ Government COVID-19 restrictions the following policy will apply.
Athletes will be given 2 options;
Option A - Entry Transfer to 2022
Option B - Receive a refund
If the event has to be cancelled after Friday 26 February, 5pm due to NZ Government COVID-19 restrictions the following policy will apply.
Athletes will be given 2 options;
Option A - Entry Transfer to 2022
Option B - Receive a refund
Transport cancellation requests submitted up until midday Thursday 25 February 2021 will receive a 90% refund of their transport fee. Transport cancellation requests submitted after this will receive no refund of their transport fee.
If you would like to cancel your transport booking please email us at info@motatapu.com
Please note if you have a current Motatapu 2022 entry and wish to transfer your entry to someone else, athlete transfers will open from 1 July 2021.
Participants can transfer their race entry to someone else until 5pm, Friday 25 February 2022 using the approved transfer process via Event Plus. No transfers will be accepted after this date.
It is not permitted to transfer your race entry to someone else other than through this process, including on Race Day.
It is very important for health and safety reasons for us to know the correct identity of every athlete on course, and accordingly it is strictly prohibited to race under another person’s race bib.
Any athletes caught doing this will be disqualified and may be prevented from entering future events.
The process for transferring your entry is as follows:
Participants can request to transfer their entry between different events until the event is sold out or online entries have closed. Once the event is sold out and entries have closed to that event, no transfers will be accepted.
A transfer fee of $25.00 will be charged for all transfers between events.
If you decide to upgrade your event to a longer distance event and space is available, you will need to pay the difference in entry fees.
If you decide to downgrade your event to a shorter distance event and space is available, unfortunately we are not able to refund the difference in entry fees.
If you would like to transfer between race distances, then please email us at info@motatapu.com