Champion chaser breaks record in Gloucestershire's deathdefying cheese rolling race UK News
Chris Anderson is a groundworker and a British Army veteran, best known for winning the annual cheese rolling at Cooper's Hill in Gloucestershire a record 23 times. Chris is sponsored by Spa Security Ltd. He now spends his spare time training with Severn AC running club and entering local races. [1] Biography
Chris Anderson from Brockworth holds his prize cheeses after he won... News Photo Getty Images
Chris Anderson is a former light infantryman in the 1st Battalion, The Rifles of the British Army. [2] He comes from Brockworth, the village in Gloucestershire at the foot of Cooper's Hill, venue for the cheese rolling races. Anderson first competed in the annual cheese rolling in 2004 at the age of 17 and came second.
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Chris Anderson won both the race and a wheel of cheese for the 23rd time, and he swears that this is the last year he's going to compete. "I was so scared beforehand," he said, according to.
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Gloucestershire soldier Chris Anderson won his 23rd race, after a year off in 2019, and said this was his final event. Competitors chased a 7lb (3kg) Double Gloucester cheese down the almost.
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Teetering into their start positions at the top will come 19 madcap competitors and the 20-time Cheese Rolling Champion Chris Anderson. On the Master of Ceremony's command, a 4kg Double Gloucester wheel will be released, quickly accelerating up to 70mph. One second later, the world's wackiest and arguably most dangerous running race will begin.
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The 8lb (3.6kg) Double Gloucester is chased 200 yards down the 1:2 gradient Cooper's Hill at Brockworth every year. Chris Anderson, 28, won the first two downhill races - his 16th and 17th Cheese.
Cheese rolling champion Chris Anderson breaks record in 2018 Gloucester race UK News
The bizarre tradition of Cheese Rolling often leaves competitors with bruises and broken limbs. It's all in the name of winning a 8lb (3.6kg) Double Gloucester thrown down the very steep Cooper's.
Cheese rolling champion Chris Anderson breaks record in 2018 Gloucester race UK News
A new champion has been crowned at the death-defying annual cheese rolling race. Max McDougall, 22, won the first men's downhill race after tripping and tumbling down Cooper's Hill. Veteran.
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Chris Anderson, cheese rolling veteran, climbing Coopers Hill before unexpectedly taking part on June 5, 2022 - he had previously announced his retirement (Image: Reach Plc staff)
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Chris Anderson's first experience of falling down the near-vertical hill where an annual cheese-rolling race takes place was when he was a teenager after having a few drinks one night.
Cheese Rolling 2017 Chris Anderson and Keavy cheese champions Metro News
Champion cheese chaser Chris Anderson broke the all-time record for most wheels of cheese won in the annual cheese rolling race in Gloucestershire, England..more.more
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A champion cheese-chaser has equalled the all-time record for the most cheeses won in the death-defying Cheese Rolling Race. Chris Anderson, 29, has now taken home a total of 20 double Gloucester.
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Chris Anderson, 30, has now become the winningest cheese-racer of all time, having claimed history's greatest number of dairy product discs in his 14 years of competition. Over the course of his.
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Chris Anderson, 30, has now taken home a total of 21 Double Gloucester cheeses over the past 14 years at the Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling and Wake competition. He broke the previous record.
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15K subscribers 30K views 5 years ago Chris Anderson is a rock star amongst the Cheese Rolling community, having just reached the record achievement of winning 20 competition cheeses. Show.
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Chris Anderson holds his cheese aloft after winning a cheese rolling race for the 23rd time at Coopers Hill in Gloucestershire (Image: Reach Plc staff)
