Unilever Vitality Athletes

ABOUT

The Unilever Vitality Athletes started as a response to the move of Foods research from Vlaardingen to Wageningen, when URDV employees, running together as the Vitality Runners Vlaardingen, would spread out over various Unilever locations in The Netherlands: Rotterdam Weena, Rotterdam De Brug and Wageningen Campus.

As a way to stay connected a new group without a location in the name should be created. At the same time, this was a good opportunity to further include other endurance activities like cycling, swimming, team-running and triathlons. To arrange this, the Unilever Vitality Athletes was founded as an umbrella, where each activity would get their own branch: Bikers can cycle around, the Crawlers focus on the swimming, the Dashers are running around and the triathletes combine the three of these. On top of that, the charity run RoPaRun team event under the name Team 51 has its place as well.

After creating the Athletes with its sub-divisions, the Unilever design team was involved to create a new logo for the Athletes, Bikers and so on. This logo can be found in all our communications.

The website is designed, build and maintained by Kees van Malssen.

The Unilever Vitality Athletes is for employees, trainees and other people related to Unilever in The Netherlands.
For all types of athletic, physical activity. To train, to learn, to enjoy, to compete! Go to the various sections for more detailed information. Activities are open to all Unilever personel, as well as those with good connections with the Unilever Vitality Athletes.
Activities can be arranged around the various Unilever locations, but can also be on different locations, or even in collaboration with Unilever athletes in other countries.

Bikers, Crawlers and Triathletes are new branches under the umbrella.
Team51 is the Roparun team.

UV Bikers

Cyling, group rides, knowledge exchange, power tables. You will find this with the UV Bikers. Great event in the planning: a Ride to Wageningen, spring 2019. For more details, look in the Bikers section.

UV Crawlers

Swimming is a great all-body workout. For extra motivation to go for a swim, knowing that others will be swimming helps a lot. Quite a few colleagues already go on weekly swims in Vlaardingen, but in Wageningen there will be even better facilities!. Look for more info and some great, inspirational movies etc in the UV Crawlers section.

UV Dashers

Dashing away, running as fast and as far as you can get. In the new setup, starting 2018, the UV Dashers are the nation wide successor of the Vitality Runners Vlaardingen. Anticipating the move to Wageningen, Rotterdam and other locations, a new name and new concept is launched: the Dashers.
Look in the UV Dashers section for current events, race results, training schedules and much, much more. Even better: join one of the weekly trainings on Tuesday or Thursday, 12:15 sharp!

UV Triathletes

Even though some people struggle to just swim, bike or run, others combine the three in one event and go for a triathlon. For those who want a taster first, there are also options to participate in a team event. For more details, look at the UV Triathletes section.

Unilever Vitality Runners

How to combine the good with the nice? Join the Ropa Run team 51. With a relay running event from Paris or Hamburg, to Rotterdam, the teams collect money for the RopaRun charity.

Locations of the UV Athletes

If you want to be contact person for your location and/or activity, please contact the webmaster.

Unilever Food Research Centre Hive Wageningen

At this moment most UV Athletes activities are organised in/from Wageningen. For more details Click here

We are looking for active contacts in Hellendoorn, Breda and Rotterdam (Weena, Hofplein). Interested? Drop us a mail!

Website control: Kees van Malssen

2026-05-25

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