A young woman from Germany has won the World Air Guitar Championships in Finland, only the second female to ever win. Aline ’The Devil’s Niece’ Westphal went up against 14 other contestants from all over the world in front of a 7,000 strong crowd at Oulu, Finland yesterday. Each contestant had to perform two rounds, [...]
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The world’s number two professional competitive eater, Pat Bertoletti, has stormed his way to a new world record in dumpling gobbling. Chicago’s Bertoletti came first in this weekend’s Day-Lee Foods World Gyoza Eating Championship held in Los Angeles. Gyoza are Japanese dumplings, about the size of a goldfish, and Bertoletti managed to guzzle 264 in [...]
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Yesterday saw the world mobile phone-throwing championships being held in Finland. The Finns unsurprisingly took most of the glory. The men’s, women’s, and junior events all went to Finnish competitors, only the freestyle event was won by a foreigner. Oskari Heinonen won the men’s event with a throw of 76 metres, Netta Karvinen took women’s [...]
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Two pocket billiard players from County Durham have smashed the world record with a 72-hour marathon pool match. Colin Pilcher and Marc Murray decided to try and beat the previous record of 53 hours 25 minutes of constant pool playing in aide of local charity Heel and Toe, who help children with dyspraxia. The pair [...]
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Today saw the World Snail Racing Championships 2011 held at the Congham Church Fete in Norfolk. This international event takes place annually and attracts snails and their jockeys from right across the globe. Competing this year were people and molluscs from as far afield as Japan and Devon. Last years champion snail-jockey Claire Lawrence attended [...]
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There’s been something of an upset at last week’s Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest, an up-and-coming new competitive eating star says she may quit the sport due to a scoring scandal. The beautiful Grace Lee gobbled 24 wieners at last Monday’s inaugural ladies hot dog eating contest at Coney Island. [...]
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Renegade gurgitator Takeru Kobayashi claims to have beaten Joey Chestnut‘s world record for consuming hot dogs. Kobayashi sensationally quit Major League Eating last year when he refused to sign a contract enabling him to compete in the same league as the likes of Joey Chestnut and Sonya Thomas. This means the six-time Nathan’s Famous Hot [...]
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There is simply no stopping Joey ‘Jaws’ Chestnut, the world’s number one competitive eater has gorged himself on yet another victory at the Super Bowl of competitive eating. This is the fifth year in a row that 27-year-old Joey Chestnut has claimed the revered Mustard Belt at Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog [...]
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Sonya “the Black Widow” Thomas has been crowned hot dog queen at the first ever women’s hot dog eating contest. 43-year-old Sonya weighs in at only 100lbs but she punches well above her weight in the field of competitive eating. The world’s number one female gurgitator was always favourite to win at Nathan’s Famous Fourth [...]
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