1st Extreme Ironing World Championships
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The 1st Extreme Ironing World Championships was the inaugural championship for the British sport of extreme ironing.
The first event, held in mid-September 2002 in Valley, Bavaria, a small village near Munich in the district Miesbach, was host to competitors from ten nations, comprising 12 teams (three were from Britain).
Ironing championship sections
- Urban- Involved ironing in/on/around a broken down car.
- Water- A fast flowing river was the location for this station. Competitors could use surfboards, canoes or rubber rings to help them.
- Forest- Ironing at the top of a tree did not suit all the competitors.
- Lauda- A purpose-built climbing wall, which ironists had to climb and iron a T-shirt.
- Freestyle- The section where "anything goes".
