Three Black Puddings, a Twenty-Foot Plinth and a Stack of Yorkshire Puddings Decide a World Title in Ramsbottom Next Month
The World Black Pudding Throwing Championships are held on the second Sunday of September outside a pub on Bridge Street. The organisers insist the puddings are hurled, not thrown.
The World Black Pudding Throwing Championships are contested outside The Oaks pub on Bridge Street in Ramsbottom, Greater Manchester, on the second Sunday of September, which in 2026 is 13 September. Competitors are given three black puddings and must knock as many Yorkshire puddings as possible off a twenty-foot plinth.
The format
| Element | Detail |
|---|---|
| Ammunition | Three black puddings per competitor |
| Target | A stack of Yorkshire puddings on a 20 ft plinth |
| Technique | Underhand only |
| Scoring | Yorkshire puddings dislodged |
| Venue | Outside The Oaks, Bridge Street, Ramsbottom |
| Proceeds | Local good causes |
Hurling, not throwing
The organisers are firm that the correct verb is hurling, on the technical grounds that the pudding is delivered underhand rather than overhand. It sounds like pedantry and it is not: the underhand restriction is the entire competitive constraint. Remove it and the event becomes a throwing contest that the strongest competitor wins. Keep it and the whole thing turns on trajectory, release point and how a dense cylindrical object behaves in the air, which is why the same names keep coming back.
Recent champions
| Year | Champion |
|---|---|
| 2025 | Ged Flanagan (ENG) |
| 2024 | Harry Ogden (ENG) |
| 2023 | Stu Pearson (ENG) |
| 2022 | Stuart Hubbart (ENG) |
| 2021 | Andrew Ferrier (ENG) |
Repeat winners are rare. Huseyin Ozluk of Turkey won in 2009 and 2013, and Andrew Ferrier in 2018 and 2021, which makes them two of the few names on the roll of honour more than once.
Where it sits on Playdash
Playdash does not price black pudding throwing. This is editorial coverage of the novelty competitive calendar rather than a market preview.
Format, venue, rules and past champions as published in encyclopaedic and calendar listings for the World Black Pudding Throwing Championships. The 2026 date given here is derived from the stated second-Sunday-of-September rule rather than from a published 2026 announcement, and entry fees were not confirmed in the sources consulted. Correct at the time of writing on 29 August 2026.