The Amazing Race 5

The Amazing Race 5 is the fifth season of the reality television show, The Amazing Race. It premiered on July 6, 2004 and ended on September 21, 2004 on CBS.

Leaderboard
This chart shows each teams ranking per leg according to their official check in at the Pit Stop. However, time penalties issued before the start of the next leg due to improperly performed tasks are not reflected here. Notes Chip & Kim and Kami & Karli initially arrived 1st and 2nd, respectively, but they had missed the clue to the Detour, having simply arrived by chance at one of the options. They had to go back and retrieve the clue before checking in, causing them to fall to 8th and 9th, respectively. Marshall & Lance, exhausted and already in dead last, decided to quit the race during the Roadblock, marking the first time ever that host Phil Keoghan had to eliminate a team still on the race course. Leg 8 had an unaired Roadblock that involved buying and delivering nuts. Only Chip and Linda have confirmed to participated in this Roadblock. Leg 13 had an unaired Roadblock that involved pitching a teepee. All three teams have confirmed members performing the task.

Pitstop Greeters

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Franchise

 * First season to visit all the six inhabitable continents.
 * First time visits to Uruguay, Argentina, Russia, Egypt, Kenya, Tanzania, United Arab Emirates, Philippines, and Canada.
 * First introduction of the Yield which allows any one team to force another team to stop racing for a predetermined amount of time.
 * Only season to have a Yield available on every leg of the race.
 * First season where all the final three teams are co-ed teams.
 * Coincidentally all the final three teams were in love relationships.
 * Last season where no limitation on individual performing the multiple number of Roadblock.
 * First season to implement the penalty for the last team to arrive at the non-elimination leg were required to turn over all the money they accumulated throughout the race and also not receive any money on the next leg.
 * First season to only have one same-gender team of that one gender, one male team.
 * Least number of all-male teams, 1 (tied with Season 6 and Season 12).
 * First season that a same-gender team did not win a leg.
 * First season to have three female teams finish in the top 6.

US

 * Second season to have back-to-back non-elimination legs after Season 3.
 * For the first time, a single-member in each of the the final 3 team (Kim, Christie and Nicole) performed only 1 Roadblock on the entire race, making them the second, third and fourth (last) person to perform only a single Roadblock to reach the final 3.
 * Flo had performed only 1 Roadblock on Season 3.


 * First season that the Finish Line was located in a Southern state of the United States.
 * First time also the race did not end on the West Coast nor the East Coast.