By Jonathan White
Table tennis players of all age groups scooped awards at the Crewe and District Table Tennis Championships in Nantwich.
And for the first time in its 91-year history, the league had an over 80s competition between Tom Osborne and Mel Green!
The World Snooker Championship is the highest stage that the sport offers and it attracts top players from all over the globe to compete each year.
Typically the legendary names dominate the headlines with the likes of Ronnie O’Sullivan, Mark Selby often tipped to achieve snooker’s greatest prize.
Nantwich duathlete Katie Latham has continued her form as she prepares for the World Duathlon Championships next year.
The 37-year-old won the ladies section of the Cholmondeley Castle Multisport Standard Duathlon in 2 hours 36 minutes and 31 seconds.
The quirky famous World Worm Charming Championships are back at Willaston this Saturday June 24!
The event, which has attracted international attention in the past, takes place at Willaston Primary Academy on Derwent Close.
Four Swimmers from Nantwich Seals won a host of medals at the North Midlands Championships at Macclesfield Leisure Centre.
Emily Lines, Tal Nurse, Archie Smith and Finn Malcolm proved a formidable foursome with a 79% success in their events – higher than some of the larger clubs in attendance.
A teenager from Nantwich has earned a call up to play hockey for Wales in the U16s European Championships.
Freya Diamond, 16, will take part in the tournament in Basel, Switzerland in July 6-9.
By Jonathan White
Organisers of the World Worm Charming Championships in Willaston have called off this year’s event due to “uncertainty around coronavirus restrictions”.
The annual event held at Willaston Primary School attracts international attention, but will not take place this year.
A South Cheshire woman is firmly in the passenger seat as she joins a sidecar racing team looking to compete in 2021 championships.
Amy Dodd, from Crewe, has joined Newark sidecar driver Simon Horton, despite the 2020 Pre Injection Sidecar Racing Championship being cancelled because of COVID-19.
Nantwich-born Mike Burgess has tasted more success at the latest World Pasty Championships.
A group of young Nantwich Riding Club dressage riders are celebrating after winning the team of four dressage competition at the British Riding Club National Championships at Lincoln Showground.
By Jonathan White
Nantwich Town’s Weaver Stadium hosted a different type of sport – the international “Universal Sieger” German Shepherd dog championships!
It was the first time Universal Sieger (German word for winner) was held in the UK and was hosted by the German Shepherd Dog League of Great Britain in their centenary year.
Organisers are busy plotting the 40th World Worm Charming championships which take place in Willaston next month.
The event – now known worldwide – will once again take place in the grounds of Willaston Primary Academy near Nantwich.
A Nantwich man who set up a pasty business in America has gobbled up his competitors to win the World Pasty Championships for the second year running.
Pure Pasty owner Michael Burgess, 57, opened his bakery in Virginia in 2010 – a year after emigrating there.
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