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25 octobre 2018

IHGF Lightweight Worlds: and the winner is Scott FARR...

Want to know about the IHGF / SAAA lightweight World Championship? This is a competition for throwers under 200 pounds or 91 kilos... They have just taken place in the USA, three weeks after the European Championships in Luzarches France (Just one click...

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20 juin 2018

Fefor, Norway: an IHGF show of Strength for Men and Women

For Francis BREBNER's International Highland Games Federation, strength is for both men and women as you can see on the photo Last week-end in Fefor, Norway, there was no discrimination on the photo. Beauties and the Beasts While 12 men from 12 nations...

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10 septembre 2015

12 great champions, 12 grinning faces

Throwing weights, stones or heavy corks isn't particularly easy... And, thanks to our photographers, you can see that on the twelve champions' faces Craig SINCLAIR and Dan Mc KIM throwing weights for distance Seb WENTA et Matt VINCENT throwing the Bressuire...

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12 août 2015

Jean-Louis COPPET: "Unforgettable emotions in a magic setting"

An interview with Jean-Louis COPPET, the man in charge of the IHGF Worlds in Bressuire: "Loads of memories cross the mind two months later. And it is not an easy job to sort things out. What with the time-consuming and busy preparation work, the events...

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Tags: bressuire, Jean-Louis Coppet, English, results, bressuire highland games, world championship, le blog des Highland Games

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17 juillet 2015

Cats and dogs, hammers and tongs

In Bressuire just like everywhere in the World, Highland Games are fun under the sun. But they are not necessarily a pain under the rain. That was the case in Bressuire for the IHGF Worlds Everybody was great on Saturday when the sun was shining But athletes,...

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14 juillet 2015

Bressuire the Scot: An Auld Alliance at the Château

Just look at that! Scottish pipers are listening to the Bressuire Mayor with a painting of the old castle in the background... Definitely, we are in Bressuire-the-Scot You want more? Just have a look at the painting offered to Jean-Michel BERNIER by Francis...

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4 juillet 2015

Independance Day:"May the fourth be with you!"

"May the fourth be with you!" Today's special dedication from the Bressuire speaker-blogger is for our American Heavies on Independance Day Dan McKIM and Matt VINCENT gave us a fantastic competition in the old Bressuire castle... And the 10.000 spectators...

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26 juin 2015

Bressuire new records (1) keg over bar

In Bressuire, you can throw a 25,3 k weight over the bar and break a new record at 5.10m. But you can also throw the Coreff keg over the bar and send it just a little bit higher: 5,11 meters. This is what Dan McKIM did in Bressuire on Saturday and that's...

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15 juin 2015

Bressuire Worlds: Tous les résultats, all the results

Bressuire: The top 3 1- Dan McKIM, USA 2- Matt VINCENT, USA 3- Matt DOHERTY, Canada Photo: Louis FRADIN Thanks to PF Productions, you can find all the results on the blog. Tous les résultats sur le blog grâce à Franck POUHET, le Monsieur Informatique...

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15 juin 2015

The IHGF Worlds in Bressuire: and the winner is...Dan McKIM

The spectators had to wait until the last event, the weight over bar, to know the name of the 2015 IHGF World Champion. Dan Mac KIM threw it over a 5.10m bar, a new Bressuire record, but Matt VINCENT failed three times. So, after two titles in 2011 and...

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14 juin 2015

Bressuire-the-Scot: more photos and a link to watch the Games

What a fantastic day in Bressuire for the Highland Games World Championship. After the first post yesterday after 4 events: 1-VINCENT, 2-Mc KIM 3- RIDER just have a look at these photos by Jean-Patrick JOLLY, Loulou FRADIN and Clotilde CADU THE OPENING...

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13 juin 2015

The IHGF Worlds afer 4 events: 1-VINCENT, 2-MacKIM, 3-RIDER

Without winning a single event, the American Matt VINCENT is leading the IHGF Worlds in Bressuire. He has got his 12 points after finishing second at the open stone and at the heavy weight. He finished third at the hammer and fifth at the caber Dan Mac...

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Tags: bressuire, Craig Sinclair, English, Scott Rider, bressuire highland games, world championship, le blog des Highland Games, Dan Mc KIM, Matt Vincent

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11 juin 2015

The Bressuire IHGF World Championships in just a few clicks

Want to know all the throwers, their personnal bests and their victories? As easy as ABC to have all the portraits in English or French. Just click on Champions Want to discover all the records and imagine how many could tumble in Bressuire? No problem!...

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7 juin 2015

"Entertainment galore": A poem for the Games

A few years ago a meeting took place When San Francisco and Bressuire came face to face; Which of these cities would have the honour to host The World Championship of the Games that we cherish the most? In spite of having such a formidable foe, Bressuire...

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Tags: bressuire, English, Mary Pinet, poetry, bressuire highland games, world championship, 2015, le blog des Highland Games

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31 mai 2015

All the records: how many will tumble in Bressuire?

With such a fantastic line-up for the IHGF Worlds, records will tumble in Bressuire. That's for sure! So it's essential to know the 12 champions' personnal bests. The blog gives you all the information you need for each of them on the menu: Just click...

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24 avril 2015

The Bressuire volunteers ready for the IHGF Worlds

Just have a look at this photo! These happy people are some of the 200 volunteers and more who are ready for the IHGF Worlds in Bressuire on June 13, 14. Don't worry, be heavy They want this competition to be very successful because this is a historical...

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8 avril 2015

Bressuire IHGF Worlds: Highland Games with a French touch

Ici, ici, c'est les Highlands" "Here we are in the Highlands!" That could be the spectators' slogan for the IHGF World Championship on June 13,14 in Bressuire, France. And everybody must admit that, in the old castle, Bressuire just looks like Scotland...

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5 avril 2015

The 12 champions: 8-Pieter-Karst BOUMA

"I am a dairy farmer in the North of the Netherlands, Friesland. I live near the Dutch legend Wout ZILJSTRA who introduced me into the games! Before I started with highlandgames, I played some soccer, did ice-skating and started strongman a few years...

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26 mars 2015

The 12 champions 7-Lukasz WENTA on the box?

No wonder Lukasz WENTA from Poland, just like his brother Seb WENTA, is a big fish in the world of professionnal Highland Games. And 27 years after the film "a fish called Wanda" was released, the IHGF is ready to announce an exceptionnal show in Bressuire...

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21 mars 2015

Francis BREBNER Part 2: "And the winners will be..."

An interview with the IHGF president Francis BREBNER (Part 2) Usually, Francis BREBNER enjoys being the interviewer and that was the case in Bressuire in 2012 when the blogger shot him asking questions to David FREY from Germany and Janne HARTIKAINEN...

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