The Amazing Race 23

 is the twenty-third installment of the reality television series, The Amazing Race. CBS announced the season premiere will be Sunday, September 29, 2013. Teams were officially announced on August 28, 2013.

Teams

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Results
The following teams participated in the Race, with their relationships at the time of filming. Placements are listed in finishing order:

Route

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Leg 1 - Episode 1 (United States → Chile)
Title: "We're Not in Oklahoma No More" - Tim (of Tim & Danny)
 * Starting Line: Melody Ranch Motion Picture Studio, Santa Clarita, California, United States
 * Teams will receive a clue regarding a phone call and must pick a Ford Focus to make a call at the other side to receive instructions. Teams must dial a phone number which will tell them their first destination: Iquique, Chile. The first flight has limited number of seats.
 * 2301-Paragliding.png Flight from Los Angeles International Airport, Los Angeles to Diego Aracena International Airport, Iquique, Chile
 * Upon arrival in Iquique, teams must look for a man named Javier in Zona de Parapentes, Alto Hospicio to receive their next clue.
 * Zona de Parapentes, Alto Hospicio
 * Who wants to follow the leader?: The team member performing the first Roadblock must direct their taxi driver to the destination where their partner, who must paraglide down to the beach, will land.
 * 2301-ChesterFish.png Muelle Prat, Iquique
 * Who's got their oars in the water?: The team member who performed the paragliding in the first Roadblock must collect five fish from one of three boats by retrieving them on a rowboat to receive their next clue. The three boats had a limited number of fish each, and if any boat ran out of fish, the performer must paddle out to one of the other boats to get the fish.
 * Teatro Municipal de Iquique, Iquique
 * 2301-TimMarieFirstPlace.png

Leg 2 - Episode 2 (Chile)
Title: "Zip It, Bingo" - Marie
 * Museo Corbeta Esmeralda, Iquique
 * Teams must repeat to the officer on the deck the famous quote, "¡Al abordaje, muchachos!," that was said by the ship's last captain Arturo Prat at the Battle of Iquique to receive their next clue.
 * Atacama Desert - Irlanda 3 road sign, Tarapacá Region
 * Atacama Desert - Mina de Sal Punta de Lobos, Tarapacá Region
 * Brining: Teams must carry bags of salt and dump them into a pool which must reach the neutral buoyancy where the teams are comfortably floating to read the local newspaper in order for the salt miner to give them their next clue.
 * Mining: Teams must break open halite boulders with pick axes and sledgehammers until they have found their next clue.
 * From Terminal Rodoviario, Iquique to Terminal San Borja, Santiago
 * Plaza de Armas, Santiago
 * Paseo Ahumada and Merced 738, Santiago
 * Who's got the knack to pack?: One team member must play the role of a Chilean shoeshiner called a "lustrabota" where they have to polish the shoes of a waiting customer then figure out how to put back together the station into the cart, which they must finally bring to at the storage depot six blocks away where they will receive their next clue.
 * Cascada de las Animas, San José de Maipo
 * An unaired task required teams to zip-line above the Maipo River to the pit stop at the foot bridge.
 * Cascada de las Animas - Foot Bridge, San José de Maipo

Leg 3 - Episode 3 (Chile → Portugal)
Title: "King Arthur Style" - Jason
 * Flight from Comodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport, Santiago to Lisbon Portela Airport, Lisbon, Portugal
 * Martim Moniz Square, Lisbon
 * Teams must take a Lisbon tram from Martim Moniz Square to Miradouro das Portas do Sol.
 * Miradouro das Portas do Sol, Lisbon
 * Teams must search for Fado performers that would hand them a painting of the Embassy Coach sent by King John V to Pope Clement XI. Teams must figure out that the painting is telling them to travel to the National Coach Museum.
 * National Coach Museum, Lisbon
 * Teams must find the Embassy Coach illustrated in the painting that they were given where they will find their next clue.
 * Fábrica Sant'Ana (Cerâmica Artistica), Lisbon / Padrão dos Descobrimentos, Lisbon
 * Tiles: Teams must put together a life-size puzzle using porcelain tiles in order to receive their next clue.
 * Miles: Teams must get a giant-sized compass at the Jerónimos Monastery then travel to Padrão dos Descobrimentos, where they will have to compute for the distance on a large map traveled by explorer Ferdinand Magellan on his voyage from Seville to the Philippine Islands. Once they have the correct answer of 16,500 nautical miles, a man dressed as Magellan would give them their next clue.
 * Monsanto Forest Park - Clube Português de Tiro a Chumbo, Lisbon
 * Who has the hands for slings and arrows?: One team member must wear a suit of armor then fire an arrow using a ballista through a shield 150 feet (46 m) away. Once it has been successfully shot, the knight would give them their next clue in a form of a shield with their clue written on the back.
 * Castle of the Moors, Sintra

Leg 4 - Episode 4 (Portugal → Norway)
Title: "Beards in the Wind"

Pitstop Greeters

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