{"id":603050,"date":"2026-05-25T13:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T13:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/603050\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T13:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T13:48:10","slug":"cheese-rolling-2026-german-youtuber-tom-kopke-among-coopers-hill-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/603050\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheese rolling 2026: German YouTuber Tom Kopke among Cooper&#8217;s Hill winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Winners come from all over the worldpublished at 13:55 BST<\/p>\n<p>13:55 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1l98ssq-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/31eda9d3-0b69-4d6e-a94f-15f8427735f8.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Clara Bullock<br \/>Live page reporter<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Men running down the hill.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/28702be2-187b-447c-8200-bc057b9a6e28.png.webp\"  width=\"976\" height=\"549\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Reuters<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The cheese rolling races have now officially finished, with spectators and competitors heading for the shade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tom Kopke, from Germany, won the first downhill men&#8217;s race &#8211; his third triumphant visit to Cooper&#8217;s Hill in a row.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The son of 23-time champion and Guinness World Record winner Chris Anderson, 11-year-old William, won the first children&#8217;s uphill race, with Ariadne taking the girl&#8217;s title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Niels, from the Netherlands, clinched the title in the second downhill men&#8217;s race.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The second children&#8217;s uphill race was won by Xander, 16 and Dotty, 11.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Alix Heugas, from France, continued the international theme when she took the women&#8217;s title in the downhill race.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jamie, from Stroud in Gloucestershire, won the men&#8217;s uphill race to take some local glory, with Ariel Dempsey winning it for the women.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And, finally, Otto, from Florida in the United States, won the third and last downhill men&#8217;s race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Winners come from all over the worldpublished at 13:55 BST 13:55 BST Clara BullockLive page reporter Image source,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-603050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}