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World Egg Throwing Championships

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Jun 30 2008

Egg-cited contestants from around the world dropped in to compete in the World Egg Throwing Championships, part of the Swaton Vintage Day, near Swaton, in Lincolnshire on Sunday.

The championships are mere hatchlings in comparison to other egg-centric British events, at only 3 years old, but already draw a huge crowd, with contestants from as far a field as Holland, the USA, Swaton and Yorkshire TV, making it a truly international, and well documented event!

The games consisted of 5 disciplines this year, ‘Throw & Catch’, ‘Static Relay’, ‘Target Throwing’, ‘Russian Egg Roulette’, and ‘Egg Trebuchet’. It was claimed that the eggs, classified as not fit for consumption, could be at least 6 months old, having been stockpiled from local, happy and free-range sources.

Big orange gowns provided a certain amount of protection in some disciplines, but happily there ware plenty of contestants coming away with egg on their face. A cracking good time had by all!

 

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The vast majority of posts in this blog are about quirky & eccentric competitions & festivals. I started it in 2006 in France with a competition I’ll never forget. Where contestants battle it out to become the World Champion Pig Squeeler, or ‘Cri du Cochon’. I had little knowledge back then of quite how far my pursuit of these kind of events would lead me. I’ve travelled all over Britain (and occasionally further afield) to capture our curiosities and quirks. There’s nothing uniquely eccentric about the British, you’ll find people all over the world up to all sorts of weird and wonderful activities, but we do have a remarkable capacity to embrace the madness. ‘A Brit Different’ is the book that was born from it, my labour of love! So what next? There’s always something interesting going on, so watch this space, only time will tell!

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