Record stone skimmers at Shropshire championship
Stone skimming is all the rage as the self-styled British championships attracted the highest number of throwers in its history – who broke multiple long distance records.
The British Stone Skimming Championships is held at Walcot Lake in Lydbury North, near Bishop's Castle, and this year nearly 200 people came from all over the country to compete.
Organiser Heather Ashton said competitors were particularly strong in the men's categories, with new records for the event being set across age groups.
She said: "We had a really wonderful day blessed by great weather. We had 178 people actually skimming, throwing 326 sets of four stones. That's a record for us, I think the most before was 265. It means in total a about 1,300 stones were cast into the lake."
"We probably had about 10 men all doing very well, pushing 80m and all our records were left behind a bit."
