World Black Pudding Throwing Championships

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Crowd gathered outside the Royal Oak, Ramsbottom, for the 2007 championship

The World Black Pudding Throwing Championships are held annually in Ramsbottom, Greater Manchester, England, outside the Royal Oak pub on Bridge Street on the second Sunday of September. The event was originally held outside the Corner Pin pub in nearby Stubbins before that pub was closed and converted to offices. Money raised by the event is donated to local good causes. [1]

Local legends claim the tradition dates back to the War of the Roses. Warring factions of the House of Lancaster and the House of York at a battle in Stubbins, Lancashire, in 1455 are said to have run out of ammunition and resorted to throwing food at each other; black pudding from Lancashire and Yorkshire puddings from Yorkshire. [2]

The competition was revived by a pub landlord in 1839 and revived again in 1984 by the Stubbins Community Trust. [3] [4] It has been a popular custom in the town ever since, drawing thousands of spectators to watch every year. [5]

Competitors must knock down the most Yorkshire puddings, placed on a 7.6-meter-high plinth, by hurling three black puddings at them.

Note: Although the popular title for this competition uses the word "throwing", the local organizers are attempting to correct this title by using the correct term, "hurling", thus calling it the World Black Pudding Hurling Championships, since according to the rules of the competition the black puddings are hurled underhand rather than thrown overhand.

List of winners

1990Ste Thornley
1996Flag of England.svg Dave Howarth (ENG) [6]
2000Flag of England.svg David McCabe (ENG) [7]
2001Flag of Australia (converted).svg Jim Riley (AUS) [8]
2002Flag of England.svg Steven Pilkington (ENG) [8]
2003Flag of England.svg Nick Connor (ENG) [9]
2004Flag of England.svg John Burns (ENG) [10]
2005Flag of England.svg Mark Greaves (ENG) [11]
2006Flag of Wales (1959-present).svg Dave Jones (WAL) [12]
2007Flag of England.svg Paul Rudge (ENG) [13]
2008Flag of England.svg Adam Arthern (ENG) [14]
2009Flag of Turkey.svg Huseyin Ozluk (TUR) [15]
2010Flag of England.svg Terry Ryan (ENG) [16]
2011Flag of Australia (converted).svg Warwick Turner (AUS) [17]
2012Flag of England.svg Alan Cunliffe (ENG) [18]
2013Flag of Turkey.svg Huseyin Ozluk (TUR) [19]
2014Flag of England.svg John Barrett (ENG) [20]
2015Flag of England.svg Mark Cannon (ENG) [21]
2016Flag of England.svg Gavin Ogden (ENG) [22]
2017Flag of England.svg Nick Pennell (ENG) [23]
2018Flag of England.svg Andrew Ferrier (ENG) [4]
2019Flag of England.svg Tom Lowden (ENG) [24]
2020No event
2021Andrew Ferrier

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