'The Amazing Race' Wins Emmy Award

'The Amazing Race' won Outstanding Reality-Competition Programme trophy at the 66th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards here.

The reality television game show is about team of two people, who have some form of a pre-existing personal relationship. They race around the world in competition with other teams.

Jane Lynch, who won a 2010 Primetime Emmy for 'Glee', bagged Outstanding Host trophy for a Reality or Reality-Competition Programme award for 'Hollywood Game Night'.

'Shark Tank', which features aspiring entrepreneurs making business presentations to a panel of potential investors, received Outstanding Structured Reality Programme award Monday night.

Outstanding Unstructured Reality Programme award went to 'Deadliest Catch'. It portrays the real life events aboard fishing vessels.