 | This is not a Wikipedia article: It is an individual user's work-in-progress page, and may be incomplete and/or unreliable. For guidance on developing this draft, see Wikipedia:So you made a userspace draft. Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL |
Santa Winter Games
The Santa Winter Games is a three day annual event held in the town of Gallivare in Northern Sweden at the end of November. Santas travel from all over the world to compete in five event; reindeer racing, kick sled racing, present wrapping, chimney climbing and an event called 'Santas Christmas Eve'. This involves running around a pole to simulate the effects of drinking lots of brandy. Contestants are scored on style and completion of event. At the end of the three days a champion Santa is named.
The Santa WInter Games has been running since 2002.
List of previous winners
2004 Ron Horniblew, Great Britain
2005 Aare Rabin, Estonia
2006 Japan
2007 Dave Downey, Australia
2008 (no games)
2009 Jimmy Chan, Hong Kong
The Santa Winter Games was the subject of a the documentary World Champion Santa The program follows Dave Downey journey to becoming a champion Santa. World Champion Santa was broadcasted on ABC1 in Australia on December 24th 2009.
References
edithttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/beds/bucks/herts/4046757.stm
http://topics.treehugger.com/photo/064K2nN22C002?q=contest+OR+competition+OR+winner+OR+compete+OR+%22enter+to+win%22+OR+sweepstakes
http://www.cnngo.com/hong-kong/none/worlds-best-santa-hong-kong-man-808993
http://www.responsibletravel.com/Trip/Trip900366.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/guide/netw/200912/programs/DO0846Q001D2009-12-24T220200.htm
http://www.indigofilm.com/programming/catalogue/?rtsid=1363
External links
edit