Bizarre World Egg Throwing Championships to return for 20th anniversary

The yearly event, which is held successful a agrarian Lincolnshire village, draws successful competitors from astir the satellite and involves teams of 'catchers' and 'tossers' battling it retired for the apical spot

There are galore weird and fantastic sporting contests retired determination you whitethorn not beryllium alert of, and to observe World Egg Day contiguous (October 10) immoderate radical are taking portion successful a precise antithetic contention – the World Egg Throwing Championships.

Held successful the agrarian Lincolnshire colony of Swaton, the lawsuit was founded successful 2005 and has seen competitors from each astir the world spell head-to-head, with New Zealand coming retired victorious successful the inaugural competition. Each vigor sees teams' 'tossers' propulsion an ovum to the 'catchers' implicit distances that summation by 10m each time.

The 5 pairs that successfully propulsion the ovum the furthest without smashing it spell done to the expansive final. Swaton Vintage Day precocious announced the 2025 lawsuit volition instrumentality spot connected Sunday, June 29.

"It mightiness not beryllium javelin, but it is considered an utmost sport," an introductory video connected the event's web tract states. Andy Dunlop, the World Egg Throwing Federation President, adds: "People person said ovum throwing isn't a existent athletics – but of people it is.

"It's not similar javelin wherever you've conscionable got a feline throwing a pointed instrumentality down a tract – this you've got to propulsion the ovum implicit an ever-increasing region and you've got to drawback it astatine the acold extremity without breaking the egg. Nobody successful javelin throwing tries to drawback the javelin."

The 2024 lawsuit saw British three-times satellite champions Joe Wilson and Brad Greenwood clasp their crown with a region of conscionable implicit 50m. Brad explained the cardinal to occurrence to Poland Daily: "It's each astir ovum selection. If you get an ovum that's excessively circular you can't usage it – you request the much pointy ones. And the tiny and compact ones - they're much solid. You request a bully looping throw." Joe added: "With brushed hands!"

Past rival Dr Ben Nicholson shared footage of his acquisition connected X, penning successful a caption: "It wasn't to beryllium contiguous astatine the satellite ovum throwing championship, making it to the 30m people with a spouse who tin lone propulsion 20m. Coming backmost stronger adjacent twelvemonth #eggonmyface.

As good arsenic ovum throwing, the amusive time besides plays big to a bid of different egg-themed events including the World Russian Egg Roulette Championship, the Egg Throwing Static Relay and the World Egg Trebuchet Challenge.

According to the event's hosts, £100,000 has been raised implicit the years for local, nationalist and planetary bully causes including implicit the years including Lincs & Notts Air Ambulance, L I V E S, McMillan Cancer Support, children's hospices and section churches and assemblage centres.