EGVGA Results 2011

* individual trophy class

Category 1 - Atlantic Giant Pumpkins

Pumpkin - European EGVGA growers *
Rank Grower Info Weight kg Weight lb
1 Jos Ghaye [Belgium] BELGIAN RECORD 717.5 1582
2 Beni Meier [Switzerland] SWISS RECORD 702.0 1548
3 Nick Gladines [Belgium] 605.5 1335
4 Mark & Frank Baggs [UK] 605.0 1334
5 Sergio Moretti [Italy] ITALIAN RECORD 594.0 1309
6 Leo Cuypers [Belgium] 591.5 1304
- Sergio Moretti [Italy] 589.0 1298
7 Team Heavy East [Germany] 582.8 1285
8 Jan Styra [Poland] POLISH RECORD 580.5 1280
9 Janko Lovse [Slovenia] SLOVENIAN RECORD 550.0 1213
10 Jonas De Swert [Belgium] 541.0 1193
11 Ian & Stuart Paton [UK] 532.0 1173
12 Thomas Puchner [Austria] AUSTRIAN RECORD 509.0 1122
13 Jean-Claude Derouin [France] 505.0 1113
14 Matthias Würsching [Germany] 499.6 1101
15 Stefano Cutrupi [Italy] 496.0 1093
16 Herman Boonen [Belgium] 494.2 1090
- Matthias Würsching [Germany] 492.5 1086
- Nick Gladines [Belgium] 491.6 1084
17 Robert Jaser [Germany] 497.6 1057
18 Paul Boonen [Belgium] 466.6 1029
- Janko Lovse [Slovenia] 457.4 1008
19 Luc Vanheuckelom [Belgium] 453.5 1000
20 Jef Boonen [Belgium] 453.0 999
Pumpkin - non-European EGVGA growers
Rank Grower Info Weight kg Weight lb
1 hil & Jane Hunt [Canada] 664.4 1464.8lb
2 Joe Menting [USA] 570.8 1258.5lb
3 Don Young [USA] 546.6 1205.0lb
4 Chris Lyons [Canada] 468.1 1032.0lb

Category 2 - Cucurbitaceae 1

Squash *
Rank Grower Info Weight kg Weight lb
1 Andreas Baumert [Germany] EUROPEAN RECORD 573.0 1263
2 Jos Ghaye [Belgium] BELGIAN RECORD 542.8 1197
3 Leo Cuypers [Belgium] 430.0 948
4 Phil Hunt [Canada] 397.8 877
5 Matthias Würsching [Germany] 389.6 859
6 Herman Boonen [Belgium] 387.6 855
- Leo Cuypers [Belgium] 374.8 826
- Herman Boonen [Belgium] 374.0 825
7 Hans Van Bael [Belgium] 334.4 737
8 David Thomas [UK] 303.2 668
9 Rick Sanders [Germany] 287.0 634
10 Mark Baggs [UK] 290.0 639
11 Tuija Osmala [Finland] 283.0 624
12 Juan Jose Ramos [Spain] SPANISH RECORD 281.5 621
- Hans Van Bael [Belgium] 280.8 618
13 Norbert Andres [Germany] 265.0 585
14 Jacqueline Molter-Steffen [Germany] 251.0 553
15 Jean Kinnen [Luxembourg] LUXEMBOURG RECORD 235.2 519
16 Iwan Horde [Netherlands] 227.0 500
- David Thomas [UK] 218.8 482
17 Marie-France Hansen [Luxembourg] 202.2 446
- Leo Cuypers [Belgium] 182.2 402
18 Norbert Andres [Germany] 170.2 375
19 Maija Karvinen [Finland] 144.0 317
20 George Rogers [UK] 108.0 308
Cantaloupe
Rank Grower Info Weight kg Weight lb
1 Mehdi Daho [France] EGVGA RECORD 18.375 40.5
- Mehdi Daho [France] 17.965 39.6
2 David Thomas [UK] 1.200 2.6
Field Pumpkin
Rank Grower Info Weight kg Weight lb
1 Mehdi Daho [France] EGVGA RECORD 57.15 126.0
2 Joe Menting [USA] 45.8 101.0
3 Chris Lyons [Canada] 44.9 99.0
4 Andreas Baumert [Germany] 39.4 86.9
5 Al Eaton [Canada] 38.6 85.0
6 Phil Hunt [Canada] 30.8 68.0
7 Johannes Offermann [Germany] 29.9 65.9
8 Roger Ruëgger [Switzerland] 29.5 65.1
9 Rick Sanders [Germany] 27.7 61.1
10 Stefan Eckhardt [Germany] 27.6 60.9
11 Fabrice Boudyo [France] 23.4 51.5
12 Joachim Hammerl [Austria] 20.4 44.9
13 Bradley Wursten [ Netherlands] 19.2 42.3
Watermelon
Rank Grower Info Weight kg Weight lb
1 Stefano Cutrupi [Italy] EGVGA RECORD 99.50 219.0
2 Bryan Mailey [Canada] 93.70 206.5
3 Phil & Jane Hunt [Canada] 90.20 198.8
4 Tuija Osmala [Finland] FINNISH RECORD 62.00 137.0
5 Joe Menting [USA] 55.60 122.5
6 Mehdi Daho [France] 43.70 96.3
7 Fabrice Boudyo [France] 26.95 59.4
8 Peter Glazebrook [UK] 20.00 44.0
9 Joanne Borcsok [Canada] 19.40 42.8

Category 3 - Cucurbitaceae 2

English marrow *
Rank Grower Info Weight kg Weight lb
1 Peter Glazebrook [UK] 48.4 106.7
2 Tuija Osmala [Finland] FINNISH RECORD 45.0 99.2
3 Malcolm Carter [UK] 42.6 94.0
4 David Thomas [UK] 41.4 91.3
- Tuija Osmala [Finland] 39.2 86.4
- Peter Glazebrook [UK] 39.2 86.4
- David Thomas [UK] 38.8 85.5
5 Peter Bohnert [Germany] 35.6 78.5
6 Bradley Wursten [Netherlands] 32.0 70.5
- Malcolm Carter [UK] 31.3 69.0
7 Nicolas Hamm [France] FRENCH RECORD 29.8 65.7
- Malcolm Carter [UK] 27.2 60.0
8 Andreas Baumert [Germany] 26.4 58.2
9 Johannes Offermann [Germany] 26.1 57.6
10 Robert Jaser [Germany] 25.4 56.0
11 Joannis Höllein [Germany] 19.8 43.6
12 Joost Wouters [Netherlands] 19.4 42.8
13 Joanne Borcsok [Canada] 17.9 39.4
14 George Rogers [UK] 17.4 38.4
15 Thomas Puchner [Austria] 16.6 36.6
- Joost Wouters [Netherlands] 15.0 33.1
16 Team Garten Tulln 15.0 33.1
Cucumber (heavy)
Rank Grower Info Weight kg Weight lb
1 David Thomas [UK] EGVGA RECORD 10.130 22.35
2 Mehdi Daho [France] FRENCH RECORD 7.700 16.98lb
- Mehdi Daho [France] 7.100 15.65
- Mehdi Daho [France] 6.175 13.61
- Mehdi Daho [France] 5.750 12.68
3 Bradley Wursten [Netherlands] DUTCH RECORD 5.502 12.1lb
4 Malcolm Carter [UK] 5.018 11.06
5 Fabrice Boudyo [France] 4.900 10.80
- Mehdi Daho [France] 4.778 10.53
- Malcolm Carter [UK] 4.762 10.5
6 Raimund Burghardt [Germany] 4.222 9.31
7 Roger Ruëgger [Switzerland] 4.190 9.24
8 Tuija Osmala [Finland] 2.820 6.22
- Tuija Osmala [Finland] 2.660 5.86
9 Christoph Schieder [Austria] 2.429 5.36
Cucumber (long)
Rank Grower Info Length cm Length in
1 David Thomas [UK] EGVGA RECORD 85.5 33.7
1 Bradley Wursten [Netherlands] EGVGA RECORD 85.5 33.7
3 Peter Glazebrook [UK] 80.0 31.5
- Peter Glazebrook [UK] 78.5 30.9
- David Thomas [UK] 71.8 28.3
4 Mehdi Daho [France] 71.0 28.0
5 Raimund Burghardt [Germany] 69.0 27.0
- Mehdi Daho [France] 68.2 26.9
- Raimund Burghardt [Germany] 55.6 21.9

Category 4 - Heavy root

Beetroot
Rank Grower Info Weight kg Weight lb
1 Joanne Borcsok [Canada] 18.40 40.6
2 Peter Glazebrook [UK] 12.60 27.8
3 David Thomas [UK] 6.40 14.2
4 Mark Raymont [UK] 5.00 10.9
5 Johannes Offermann [Germany] 0.97 2.1
Carrot *
Rank Grower Info Weight kg Weight lb
1 David Thomas [UK] EGVGA RECORD 5.90 13.00
- David Thomas [UK] 4.75 10.50
2 Peter Glazebrook [UK] 4.15 9.10
- Peter Glazebrook [UK] 3.20 7.10
3 Mehdi Daho [France] 2.80 6.20
4 Fabrice Boudyo [France] 1.76 3.87
5 Tuija Osmala [Finland] FINNISH RECORD 1.74 3.83
6 Bradley Wursten [Netherlands] 1.62 3.57
7 Team Garten Tulln [Austria] 1.55 3.42
8 Mark Raymont [UK] 1.40 3.10
9 Maija Karvinen [Finland] 1.20 2.65
10 George Rogers [UK] 1.15 2.54
11 Jan Molter [Germany] 0.62 1.37
- Jan Molter [Germany] 0.60 1.32
Parsnip
Rank Grower Info Weight kg Weight lb
1 David Thomas [UK] WORLD RECORD 7.85 17.30
- David Thomas [UK] 5.56 12.30
2 Peter Glazebrook [UK] 4.60 10.10
- Peter Glazebrook [UK] 3.90 8.60
3 Bradley Wursten [Netherlands] 3.40 7.50
4 George Rogers [UK] 1.98 4.40
5 Tuija Osmala [Finland] FINNISH RECORD 1.74 3.83
6 Joanne Borcsok [Canada] 1.72 3.80
7 Johannes Offermann [Germany] 1.45 3.19
8 Mark Raymont [UK] 0.98 1.96
Potato
Rank Grower Info Weight kg Weight lb
1 Peter Glazebrook [UK] WORLD RECORD 4.98 10.98
2 David Thomas [UK] 1.66 3.66
3 Bradley Wursten [Netherlands] 0.84 1.86

Category 5 - Long

Beetroot
Rank Grower Info Length cm Length in
1 Peter Glazebrook [UK] EGVGA RECORD 584.0 230.0
2 Mehdi Daho [France] FRENCH RECORD 355.0 139.8
3 Bradley Wursten [Netherlands] 234.0 92.1
4 Johannes Offermann [Germany] 66.5 26.2
Carrot
Rank Grower Info Length cm Length in
1 Mehdi Daho [France] FRENCH RECORD 240.0 94.5
2 Peter Glazebrook [UK] 237.6 93.5
- Mehdi Daho [France] 222.0 86.6
3 Bradley Wursten [Netherlands] 156.0 61.4
4 Joanne Borcsok [Canada] 132.1 52.0
- Bradley Wursten [Netherlands] 117.0 46.1
5 Johannes Offermann [Germany] 102.2 40.2
- Johannes Offermann [Germany] 74.0 29.2
Long gourd *
Rank Grower Info Length cm Length in
1 Al Eaton [Canada] 334.8 131.8
2 Bradley Wursten [Netherlands] EUROPEAN RECORD 310.0 122.0
3 Bryan Mailey [Canada] 300.0 118.0
4 Fabrice Boudyo [France] FRENCH RECORD 295.0 116.1
5 Roger Rüegger [Switzerland] SWISS RECORD 293.5 115.6
- Roger Rüegger [Switzerland] 292.0 114.7
6 Phil & Jane Hunt [Canada] 289.0 113.8
7 Josef Stocker [Austria] AUSTRIAN RECORD 287.0 113.0
8 Chris Lyons [Canada] 283.0 111.5
9 Peter Bohnert [Germany] 265.7 104.6
10 Norbert Andres [Germany] 265.5 104.5
11 Mehdi Daho [France] 263.0 103.5
12 Maija Karvinen [Finland] 257.0 101.2
13 Johannes Offermann [Germany] 251.8 99.1
- Norbert Andres [Germany] 239.5 94.3
14 Rick Sanders [Germany] 239.5 94.3
15 Jean-Claude Derouin [France] 235.0 92.5
15 Andy Hamilton [Canada] 235.0 92.5
- Johannes Offermann [Germany) 232.5 91.5
17 Martin Rudorfer [Germany] 230.0 90.6
18 Thomas Puchner [Austria] 218.0 85.8
19 Team Garten Tulln [Austria] 212.0 83.5
20 Joachim Hammerl [Austria] 174.0 68.5
Parsnip
Rank Grower Info Length cm Length in
1 Peter Glazebrook [UK] EGVGA RECORD 418.8 164.9
2 Joanne Borcsok [Canada] 144.8 57.0
3 Johannes Offermann [Germany] 84.8 33.4
Runnerbean
Rank Grower Info Length cm Length in
1 Peter Glazebrook [UK] EGVGA RECORD 80.5 31.8
- Peter Glazebrook [UK] 78.0 30.7
2 George Rogers [UK] 69.5 27.4
3 Mehdi Daho [France] 68.0 26.8
4 Stefan Eckhardt [Germany] 67.0 26.4
- Mehdi Daho [France] 66.0 26.0
5 Bradley Wursten [Netherlands] 65.0 25.6
6 Roger Ruëgger [Switzerland] 50.4 19.8

Category 6 - Brassica

Cabbage
Rank Grower Info Weight kg Weight lb
1 David Thomas [UK] 50.8 112.0
- David Thomas [UK] 44.8 98.8
2 Peter Glazebrook [UK] 33.4 73.6
- Peter Glazebrook [UK] 33.4 73.6
3 Phil Hunt [Canada] 26.5 58.4
4 Joanne Borcsok [Canada] 20.9 46.0
Kohlrabi
Rank Grower Info Weight kg Weight lb
1 David Thomas [UK] EGVGA RECORD 15.52 34.2
2 Joanne Borcsok [Canada] 15.15 33.4
3 Jan Molter [Germany] 9.26 20.4
4 Team Garten Tulln [Austria] 8.40 18.5
5 Johannes Offermann [Germany] 6.48 14.3
6 Martin Rudorfer [Germany] 6.47 14.3
7 Maija Karvinen [Finland] 5.07 11.2
8 Tuija Osmala [Finland] 5.01 11.0
9 Jean Kinnen [Luxembourg] 4.80 10.6
10 Peter Bohnert [Germany] 4.75 10.5
Radish
Rank Grower Info Weight kg Weight lb
1 David Thomas [UK] 4.00 8.82
2 Peter Glazebrook [UK] 3.95 8.70
3 Bradley Wursten [Netherlands] 1.30 2.87
Swede *
Rank Grower Info Weight kg Weight lb
1 David Thomas [UK] EGVGA RECORD 34.10 75.2
- David Thomas [UK] 29.80 65.7
2 Peter Glazebrook [UK] 21.20 46.7
3 Mark Raymont [UK] 15.80 34.9
4 Joanne Borcsok [Canada] 14.70 32.4
5 Bradley Wursten [Netherlands] 8.80 19.4
6 Maija Karvinen [Finland] 8.69 19.2
7 Tuija Osmala [Finland] 5.61 12.4
8 Johannes Offermann [Germany] 1.76 3.9

Category 7 - Tall

Amaranth
Rank Grower Info Height cm Height in
1 Bo Persson [Sweden] EUROPEAN RECORD 810 318.9
2 Mehdi Daho [France] 353 139.0
3 Hezekiah Wahl [USA] 338 133.1
Corn *
Rank Grower Info Height cm Height in
1 Bernhard Preis [Germany] EUROPEAN RECORD 822.0 323.6
2 Mehdi Daho [France] FRENCH RECORD 656.0 258.3
3 Johannes Offermann [Germany] 615.5 242.3
4 Joanne Borcsok [Canada] 593.0 233.5
5 Iwan Horde [Netherlands] 513.0 202.0
6 Hezekiah Wahl [USA] 505.0 198.8
7 Tuija Osmala [Finland] FINNISH RECORD 491.0 193.3
8 Bradley Wursten [Netherlands] 481.0 189.4
9 Christoph Schieder [Austria] 458.0 180.3
10 Tom Delles [Luxembourg] 440.0 173.2
11 Fabrice Boudyo [France] 406.0 159.8
12 Rick Sanders [Germany] 381.0 150.0
13 Team Heavy East [Germany] 346.0 136.2
14 Joost Wouters [Netherlands] 255.0 100.4
Sunflower
Rank Grower Info Height cm Height in
1 Thomas Puchner [Austria] EGVGA RECORD 530.0 208.7
2 Hezekiah Wahl [USA] 447.0 176.0
- Hezekiah Wahl [USA] 421.5 165.9
3 Team Heavy East [Germany] 408.0 160.6
4 Mojca Rehar Klancic [Slovenia] 405.0 159.4
5 Joanne Borcsok [Canada] 400.0 157.5
5 Iwan Horde [Netherlands] 396.0 155.9
6 Marie-France Hansen [Luxembourg] 382.0 150.4
7 Bradley Wursten [Netherlands] 368.0 144.9
8 Jean-Claude Derouin [France] 360.0 141.7
9 Mehdi Daho [France] 351.0 138.2
10 Joost Wouters [Netherlands] 276.0 108.7
Sunflower (head)
Rank Grower Info Width cm Width in
1 Martin Rudorfer [Germany] EGVGA RECORD 70.0 27.6
2 Jan Molter [Germany] 65.7 25.9
- Jan Molter [Germany] 53.6 21.1
3 Hezekiah Wahl [USA] 52.0 20.5
3 Thomas Puchner [Austria] 52.0 20.5
5 Tuija Osmala [Finland] FINNISH RECORD 51.0 20.1
5 Juha Ollila [Estonia] ESTONIAN RECORD 51.0 20.1
7 Mojca Rehar Klancic [Slovenia] 50.0 19.7
- Mojca Rehar Klancic [Slovenia] 50.0 19.7
8 Rick Sanders [Germany] 49.5 19.5
9 Joanne Borcsok [Canada] 45.7 18.0
10 Team Garten Tulln [Austria] 44.0 17.3
11 Tom Delles [Luxembourg] 40.0 15.8
12 Bradley Wursten [Netherlands] 36.0 14.2
13 Joannis Höllein [Germany] 35.0 13.8
- Bradley Wursten [Netherlands] 35.0 13.8
14 Jean Claude Derouin [France] 34.0 13.4
15 Mehdi Daho [France] 28.0 11.0

Category 8 - Other heavy

Celery
Rank Grower Info Weight kg Weight lb
1 David Thomas [UK] EGVGA RECORD 24.6 54.2
- David Thomas [UK] 24.4 53.8
2 Peter Glazebrook [UK] 13.4 29.5
Leek
Rank Grower Info Weight kg Weight lb
1 Peter Glazebrook [UK] EGVGA RECORD 7.40 16.3
- Peter Glazebrook [UK] 7.00 15.4
2 Bradley Wursten [Netherlands] 0.87 1.9
Onion
Rank Grower Info Weight kg Weight lb
1 Peter Glazebrook [UK] WORLD RECORD 8.15 17.97
- Peter Glazebrook [UK] 7.30 16.10
- Peter Glazebrook [UK] 6.80 15.00
2 Mehdi Daho [France] FRENCH RECORD 2.94 6.47
- Mehdi Daho [France] 2.34 5.16
3 Fabrice Boudyo [France] 2.21 4.86
4 Iwan Horde [Netherlands] 0.87 1.91
- Iwan Horde [Netherlands] 0.83 1.83
Pepper
Rank Grower Info Weight kg Weight lb
1 Mehdi Daho [France] EGVGA RECORD 0.584 1.29
2 Johannes Offermann [Germany] 0.575 1.27
- Mehdi Daho [France] 0.484 1.07
3 Bradley Wursten [Netherlands] 0.469 1.03
- Bradley Wursten [Netherlands] 0.463 1.02
- Johannes Offermann [Germany] 0.400 0.88
- Mehdi Daho [France] 0.400 0.88
4 Fabrice Boudyo [France] 0.280 0.61
Tomato *
Rank Grower Info Weight kg Weight lb
1 Chris Lyons [Canada] 2.410 5.32
2 Fabrice Boudyo [France] 2.255 4.97
- Fabrice Boudyo [France] 2.170 4.78
3 Roger Ruëgger [Switzerland] SWISS RECORD 2.050 4.52
4 Peter Glazebrook [UK] 2.000 4.41
- Fabrice Boudyo [France] 1.990 4.39
- Roger Ruëgger [Switzerland] 1.950 4.30
- Fabrice Boudyo [France] 1.940 4.27
5 Nicolas Hamm [France] 1.862 4.11
6 Tuija Osmala [Finland] FINNISH RECORD 1.796 3.96
- Fabrice Boudyo [France] 1.785 3.94
7 Mehdi Daho [France] 1.737 3.83
- Fabrice Boudyo [France] 1.650 3.64
8 Christoph Schieder [Austria] AUSTRIAN RECORD 1.644 3.62
9 Mojca Rehar Klancic [Slovenia] 1.600 3.53
10 Joannis Höllein [Germany] 1.600 3.53
11 Phil & Jane Hunt [Canada] 1.597 3.52
- Tuija Osmala [Finland] 1.586 3.50
- Mehdi Daho [France] 1.490 3.28
- Mehdi Daho [France] 1.488 3.27
- Tuija Osmala [Finland] 1.470 3.24
- Tuija Osmala [Finland] 1.452 3.20
- Fabrice Boudyo [France] 1.425 3.14
- Mehdi Daho [France] 1.353 2.98
- Fabrice Boudyo [France] 1.340 2.95
- Peter Glazebrook [UK] 1.300 2.87
12 Johannes Offermann [Germany] 1.293 2.85
13 Peter Bohnert [Germany] 1.200 2.65
14 Joe Menting [USA] 1.125 2.48
- Mehdi Daho [France] 1.070 2.35
15 Malcolm Carter [UK] 1.063 2.34
16 Bradley Wursten [Netherlands] 1.056 2.33
17 Peter Bohnert [Germany] 0.870 1.91
18 Debra Rebel [USA] 0.780 1.72
19 Rick Sanders [Germany] 0.759 1.67
20 Robert Jaser [Germany] 0.720 1.59

Non-competition classes

Beetroot (Mammoth) - heavy
Rank Grower Info Weight kg Weight lb
1 Christoph Scheider [Austria] AUSTRIAN RECORD 21.70 47.8
2 Thomas Riegebauer [Austria] 17.65 38.9
3 Maija Karvinen [Finland] FINNISH RECORD 8.80 19.4
4 Jean-Claude Derouin [France] 7.35 16.2
5 Bradley Wursten [Netherlands] 5.40 11.9
6 Fabrice Boudyo [France] 5.30 11.7
7 Tuija Osmala [Finland] 4.97 11.0
8 Robert Jaser [Germany] 3.68 8.1
Eggplant
Rank Grower Info Weight kg Weight lb
1 Mehdi Daho [France] 1.136 2.50
- Mehdi Daho [France] 1.050 2.31
Pepper (sweet + chili) - long
Rank Grower Info Length cm Length in
1 Roger Ruëgger [Switzerland] 28.9 11.4
Rabaquet Gigante Squash
Rank Grower Info Weight kg Weight lb
1 Joan Codina [Spain] 46.5 102.5