World Black Pudding Throwing Championships

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]

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

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
1994 Gandalf the Grey (ENG)
1995 Gandalf the White (ENG)
1996 Dave Howarth (ENG)[6]
2000 David McCabe (ENG)[7]
2001 Jim Riley (AUS)[8]
2002 Steven Pilkington (ENG)[8]
2003 Nick Connor (ENG)[9]
2004 John Burns (ENG)[10]
2005 Mark Greaves (ENG)[11]
2006 Dave Jones (WAL)[12]
2007 Paul Rudge (ENG)[13]
2008 Adam Arthern (ENG)[14]
2009 Huseyin Ozluk (TUR)[15]
2010 Terry Ryan (ENG)[16]
2011 Warwick Turner (AUS)[17]
2012 Alan Cunliffe (ENG)[18]
2013 Huseyin Ozluk (TUR)[19]
2014 John Barrett (ENG)[20]
2015 Mark Cannon (ENG)[21]
2016 Gavin Ogden (ENG)[22]
2017 Nick Pennell (ENG)[23]
2018 Andrew Ferrier (ENG)[4]
2019 Tom Lowden (ENG)[24]
2020 No event
2021 Andrew Ferrier

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