Cheese-loving daredevils hurl themselves down steep hill in famous race

Dairy-loving daredevils from astir the satellite person descended connected Gloucestershire and thrown themselves down Cooper's Hill successful the yearly cheese-rolling race.

Competitors ran, slid and tumbled down the near-vertical incline successful an effort to effort and triumph an 8lb instrumentality of Double Gloucester - a semi-hard food renowned for its beardown and savoury flavour.

They were cheered connected by thousands of spectators during the notoriously unsafe contention - made tougher this twelvemonth with a harder racetrack owed to the caller adust weather.

People person been staging their ain unofficial lawsuit aft wellness and information fears caused the authoritative contention to beryllium cancelled successful 2010.

Since then, it has been held unofficially with the constabulary keeping a watchful oculus connected the event.

Several races took spot this year, with German YouTuber Tom Kopke winning the archetypal men's downhill race.

"It was crazy. This twelvemonth was different," said the 23-year-old from Munich aft retaining the rubric helium won past year.

"Last twelvemonth the elevation was muddy and this twelvemonth it was adust and unsafe and radical got injured.

"I unopen disconnected my encephalon and went for it.

"All the radical astatine the apical said they were going to bargain my rubric but this is mine.

"I worked for this. I risked my beingness for this. It's my cheese. Back to back."

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The food is chased 200 yards down the 1:2 gradient elevation successful Brockworth.

Competitors travelled from crossed the satellite to instrumentality portion successful the bid of madcap races.

The women's contention was won by Ava Sender Logan, 20, who was racing for the Refugee Community Kitchen, which supports displaced radical successful bluish France and stateless radical successful London and Edinburgh.

The 2nd men's contention was won by Luke Preece, from Gloucester, who flew down the elevation contention dressed successful a Superman costume - and the last men's downhill contention was won by Byron Smith, 33, from New Zealand.

The antithetic lawsuit is simply a centuries-old contented and is thought to person its roots successful a heathen festival to observe the instrumentality of spring.