Team Vegan was launched in February 2008 after a small group of vegans decided to enter a team in Auckland's annual Round the Bays fun run, and, after putting the word out, found that loads of other vegans were keen to join them.

Team Vegan quickly grew to more than 30 members and the entrants realised that many wanted a more permanent sports group that could organise outings and events where we could meet and train with other vegans.  Team Vegan was born.

It did not take long for the concept to be picked up in other cities. When several Team Vegan members travelled to Christchurch for the annual Vegan Triathlon in mid February 2008, word spread and Christchurch vegans got involved as well, planning their first event - a Team Vegan presence in Le Race, a 100km cycle race from Christchurch to Akaroa.

Today Team Vegan has around 45 members nationwide. Our goal is simple, we want to raise the visibility of vegan sportspeople, promote health and fitness within the vegan community and help dispel negative vegan stereotypes by showing what a fit energetic bunch we really are!

Any vegan who is in to sports can join us simply by buying Team Vegan gear and going out and competing in it.  Eventually we hope to add features to this website to allow our members to post their own event notices and profiles. In the meantime members contact us when they plan to enter an event and we promote that event to our members to see if others in the vegan community are interested in joining them. After any event we post news and pictures on our website and report back on how the team and/or our members went. 

Some of our members are competitive triathletes, some run marathons and long distance cycle races, others are regular/casual runners or sportspeople, while others just want to get out there and have fun doing active sporty things with other vegans on a more social level. We are a diverse bunch and welcome all vegans, of all fitness levels and abilities - so you have no excuses, join us today!

GO TEAM VEGAN!!