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See all the flipping good fun in our video of yesterday's pancake race





Battling for the position of top tosser, best pancake catcher and fastest pancake relay team, outrageous outfits were again the order of the day.
The event, arranged by Soroptimist International Newbury and District, was a big success, attracting a bumper crowd.
The weather played fair and kept dry and event compere, John Hampson from the Newbury Weekly News described the going as good to firm.
The winning team, from Newbury Hall International School, Enborne Road, Newbury, were variously accused of cheating, stuffing their team with talented 'foreign ringers' and using performance enhancing substances.
But the captain, Charles Lawrence from Reading, who led a team hailing from Russia and Japan, said their victory was all down to careful planning, hard work and good strategy.
He said: “We decided to enter last night and spend a few minutes working out how to flip a pancake. After that it was all systems go. None of us have been in a pancake race before and we were not feeling confident, but we decided not to have pancakes before the race, which may have been a good strategic decision.”
Placed second in the very close final was the aptly named Energie Fitness Smurfs, a team from the Parkway-based gym.
The Smurfs nearly did not make it to the final, and only qualified by pipping the Newbury Weekly News team to the post in a race between the also-rans.
The prize for top tosser went to Eddie, the Eddie Catz cat, mainly because the announcer mistook him for a tiger.
Prize for best dressed team went to King’s Road based legal firm Thomas Eggar, whose theme was Ye Oldy World, and who wore full armour.
Following the races, pancakes were tossed from St Nicolas’ Church and the winning pancake was caught, after lots of pushing and shoving, by Tom Brannagan who represented Newbury charity Swings and Smiles.
This was followed by pancakes for lunch at St. Nicolas’ Church Hall where everyone set aside their rivalry and made friends again.
To see highlights from the event, click on the video below.



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