Cheese rolling race: Hundreds compete in Coopers Hill event

Hundreds of radical person taken portion successful the yearly food rolling utmost sporting event.

Competitors chased a 7lb (3kg) Double Gloucester food instrumentality down the almost-vertical Coopers Hill successful Brockworth, adjacent Gloucester.

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Matt Crolla, 28, from Manchester, won the archetypal race. The women's contention was won by Delaney Irving who was knocked unconscious arsenic she chased the cheese.

"I'm gladsome I'm beauteous conscious and I've not got galore superior injuries," said Mr Crolla.

Asked however helium prepared for the contention helium said: "I don't deliberation you tin bid for it, tin you? It's conscionable being an idiot."

Women's champion Ms Irving, 19, from Vancouver Island successful Canada, said the contention was "good... present that I retrieve it".

"I retrieve running, past bumping my head, and past I woke up successful the tent," she said.

"I inactive don't truly judge it, but it feels great."

Kyla Hill, of Team Cheese, the radical of volunteers who assistance organise the event, said she was "passionate" astir food rolling.

"It puts america [Brockworth village] connected the map, makes america a spot famous, draws radical successful from implicit the world," she said.

"I was talking to a mates past nighttime who'd travel implicit from Washington especially."

Another planetary victor was Ryoya Minami from Japan. Asked wherefore helium entered the race, helium replied "because I emotion cheese".

Ms Hill added others had travel from Texas and Switzerland for the event.

Swiss brace Midori Gasseling and Kim Scherer tried their luck but did not win.

"It's mode tougher than it looks," Midori said.