The winners of Race Across the World were revealed on tonight's show on BBC One.20:55, 21 May 2026Updated 21:05, 21 May 2026The winners of Race Across the World was confirmed tonight after a gruelling trek. Contestants Jo and Kush managed to snag the win tonight after the BBC One show came to an end with the best friends becoming the first pair to reach the final checkpoint in Hatgal in Northern Mongolia.‌They have revealed how they are set to spend their £20,000 winnings, with plans to invest their incredible win. "I'm definitely going to invest a fair amount into my future, and when I say invest into my future, I will invest into what I enjoy doing to hopefully build a career out of it, like travelling. Whatever is left is going straight into a savings account to go on a deposit for a house," said Kush, 19.‌‌READ MORE: Who won Race Across the World? 2026 winners announced after tense finalREAD MORE: BBC Race Across the World stars reveal 'turning point' after 'not getting on'Jo, also 19, added that that was his plan too: "I want to spend some on my family and then a nice trip away, a holiday, but the majority of it will go into an ISA so hopefully I can buy a house sooner."The pair revealed their delight at winning the race, Kush said following the win: "It feels like a fever dream. It’s such a bittersweet feeling, because it's now finished and that's the end of our travelling, but it shows that all our hard work, sacrifice, loss of sleep and hunger has all succeeded and it is so fulfilling to know that it hasn't gone to waste. We just wanted to get to Mongolia, so winning was just an extra joy.""Seeing the empty book is what we dreamt of from day one, and to actually see it, in real life and not a dream, it’s just unreal. Season 6 is our season! And the pay cheque is nice too," added Jo.‌Starting from Palermo in Sicily, the duo raced over 12,000 km through Europe and Asia, across the world ’s largest continental landmass, across Eurasia and into the snow covered Mongolia.They beat out father and daughter Andrew and Molly who came in second place, just three hours behind the winners. In third place came siblings Katie and Harrison, while in-laws Mark and Margo came in fourth place - 25 hours later.When Kush and Jo arrived at the checkpoint the pair felt "sick" at first, but were quick to start celebrating when they realised they were the first pair at the checkpoint and had won the series.‌The boys piled on top of each other in the snow shouting “We did it. We won!" Writing their names in the book, Jo said: “The dream from the start was opening the final book and seeing it empty, so that actually happening... it’s hard to get my head around it.” Kush added: “I hope we did Liverpool proud. Big up scousers!”The duo revealed that they always believed they were capable of winning, with Kush commenting in a press release that he knew "right from the second we applied!" He added: "Once we avoided elimination though, we changed up our tone very quickly. It was almost like now we’ve got to win, because we’ve made such an effort to stay in this game.""I think for me it was from leg 6 when we finished in first place, I was like wow, we can actually do this. Going forward from that point, it was all about persistence," said Jo.Article continues belowAll episodes of Race Across the World are available to watch on BBC iPlayer.Like this story? For more of the latest showbiz news and gossip, follow Mirror Celebs on TikTok, Snapchat, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Threads.