The Amazing Race 22

Production

Development and filming

Contestants

Results

• A placement with a dagger indicates that the team was eliminated.
• An placement with a double-dagger indicates that the team was the last to arrive at a Pit Stop in a non-elimination leg, and had to perform a Speed Bump task in the following leg.
• An italicized and underlined placement indicates that the team was the last to arrive at a Pit Stop, but there was no rest period at the Pit Stop and all teams were instructed to continue racing. There was no required Speed Bump task in the next leg.
• A indicates that the team won the Fast Forward.
• A indicates that the team used an Express Pass on that leg to bypass one of their tasks.
• A indicates that the team used the U-Turn and a indicates the team on the receiving end of the U-Turn.

Race summary

Leg 1 (United States → French Polynesia)

• Episode 1: "Business in the Front, Party in the Back"
• Prize: Two Express Passes
• Eliminated: Matt & Daniel

• Los Angeles, California
• Los Angeles → Bora Bora, French Polynesia
• Anau → Motu Piti A'au
• Motu Piti A'au

• Teams set off from the Griffith Observatory and drove to Los Angeles International Airport, where they had to book one of two flights to the island of Bora Bora in French Polynesia. The first five teams arrived on the first flight one hour before the remaining six teams on the second flight. Once there, teams found their next clue outside the Bora Bora Airport.
• In this season's first Roadblock, one team member had to sign up for one of six helicopter flights. They then had to perform a tandem skydive from over above the island while their partner traveled via water taxi to the landing zone on Anau. Once the team members reunited, they were given their next clue.
• After the first Roadblock, teams had to travel by water taxi to Eden Beach, where they found their next clue.
• In this leg's second Roadblock, the team member who did not perform the previous Roadblock had to search among 400 sandcastles for one with a clue buried beneath it. If a sandcastle didn't have a clue, they had to rebuild it before they could search under another.
• After the second Roadblock, teams had to assemble a va'a outrigger canoe and then paddle to the Pit Stop: Motu Café.

• Katie, Jennifer, and Daniel chose to quit the second Roadblock. Max & Katie and Caroline & Jennifer were issued four-hour penalties that were applied at the start of the next leg, while Matt & Daniel were the last team to arrive at the Pit Stop and were therefore eliminated.

  Leg 2 (French Polynesia)

• Episode 2: "Loose Lips Sink Ships"
• Prize: A trip for two to London, England
• Eliminated: Idries & Jamil

• Motu Toopua
• Motu Toopua
• Bora Bora
• Bora Bora

• At the start of this leg, teams had to board a water taxi and travel to the Hilton Bora Bora Nui, where teams had to search for a wedding chapel and find a Polynesian priest, who gave them a traditional blessing and their next clue.
• This season's first Detour was a choice between Pick a Pearl or Take a Trunk. In Pick a Pearl, teams traveled offshore, where they had to dive down and untie lines of pearl oysters. They then had to open them until they found two red pearls and then swim to an oyster farmer where they could trade them for their next clue. In Take a Trunk, teams dove underwater, wearing special diving helmets, to a series of treasure trunks. They then had to unpack its contents and set up an underwater picnic table in order to receive their next clue.
• After the Detour, teams had to choose a personal water craft and use a map to guide them to Motu Tapu, where they found their next clue.
• In this leg's Roadblock, one team member participated in a traditional Polynesian test of strength by walking on a pair of stilts while kicking a coconut across a stretch of beach. If they fell, they had to return to the start to resume, but the position of the coconut was not reset. Once they successfully kicked the coconut over the finish line, teams could run to the nearby Pit Stop.

• Dave tore his Achilles tendon near the end of this leg while running to the Pit Stop.