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Pensacola Beach Firefighters Challenge

Date:
Fri, Apr 10, 2026 at 4:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Location:
41 Pickens Road
Escambia County, Florida
32561
United States
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Links:
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Firefighters!

Pensacola Sports is excited to host the annual Pensacola Beach Firefighters Challenge on April 10-11, 2026.

Test your skill, strength, and stamina on the sugar-white sands of Pensacola Beach. Register a team or challenge yourself and do the course solo. The Pensacola Beach Firefighters Challenge is a great family-friendly event to build camaraderie, compete, have fun, and win!

There will be Individual and Team Firefighter Challenges and bring the kids out to try the Kids Challenge, happening on the same course with obstacles that simulates the same obstacles as the firefighters.

NEW! kids challenge will take place on the same course as the firefighters and simulate the same obstacles in kid form.

Kids must be 5 - 12 years old to participate. Space is limited!

Kid Challenge Format:

This is a time based competition. We will have two courses going at the same time, but just as the adults, they are not competing against each other. Age group winners will run three deep, (1st, 2nd & 3rd will be awarded)

5-6

7-9

10-12

Kids will receive a challenge coin and winners will receive a prize.

Bring your family to make it a vacation!

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