Picture: Kieran Dean
Hundreds of people from all over Sheffield turned up at the Endcliffe Village Green to smash the world record for the most people flipping a pancake.
To break the record, everyone had to continuously flip a pancake for 30 seconds without dropping it. If participants dropped their pancakes, they had to put their frying pans down and they were not counted towards the final score.
The record was previously set in 2008 by the Dutch TV Show Mooi! Weer de Leeuw, where 405 helped to break the world record. The University of Sheffield smashed this record by over double, with 890 people succeeding in flipping their pancakes for thirty seconds. Both students and local residents took part in order to beat the previous world record. Small children had miniature pancakes in miniature frying pans so that they could participate as well. Free food, an F1 simulator and other various attractions were also on offer, in order to keep the crowds of people entertained before and after the pancake toss.
The event helped raise funds for children’s charities Asperger’s Children and Carer’s Fund (AACT), Project Buzz and Paces Sheffield.
Project Buzz is located at Springfield Primary School in the heart of Sheffield, providing play, social and education activities for families, and Paces Sheffield helps children with disabilities, specifically the experience of parenting children and young people with physical impairments and their related learning difficulties.
After the event, there was a pancake eating competition, a pancake race, and even frying pan table tennis for everyone to enjoy. The participants also got to take their frying pans home to commemorate their participation in the world record breaking event, they could donate them to charity. Those who took part gained a commemorative certificate to show they had broken the world record.
First year Biblical Studies student Hamilton Jones, who was one of many new world record holders, said: “It doesn’t feel particularly different to be a world record holder, but it was a good atmosphere. There were a lot of families, there was a good community spirit and there were lots of students there as well.”
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