Charles Sturt University (CSU) students provided prevention as well as cure for competitors in the 2011 Tour de Timor bicycle race. Six final year physiotherapy students provided screening, treatment and advice on preventing injuries to the 58 Timorese competitors in the week leading up to the race, which this year ran over seven days and 600 kilometres of mountains and rough roads. Developed as part of students’ required practical experience for their profession, the students provided physiotherapy services each day in hot, dusty conditions to competitors and volunteers, with demand peaking at 130 patients in one day. “The students were fantastic. They remained energetic and enthusiastic throughout the two weeks, often working with limited sleep,” said Mr Tim Retchford, placement coordinator and academic with CSU’s School of Community Health, based in Albury-Wodonga. “Competitors, race organisers and doctors and nurses from the National Critical Care and Trauma Response Centre in Australia gave glowing praise for the quality of our students’ work. They were even formally recognised when they received an award from East Timor’s president the Hon. Jose Ramos-Horta.”