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Wok racing is a sport
Sport

Sport is an activity that is governed by a set of regulation of sport or traditions and often engaged in competitively. Sports commonly refer to activities where the physical capabilities of the competitor are the sole or primary determinant of the outcome , but the term is also used to include activities such as mind sports and motor...
 developed by the German TV host and entertainer Stefan Raab
Stefan Raab

Stefan Konrad Raab is a German entertainer, music producer, singer and comedian. He attended Jesuit boarding school Aloisiuskolleg in Bonn. Before entering the media world, he worked as a butcher and studied law school before dropping out of college after five semesters....
. Modified Chinese
China

China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....
 wok
Wok

A wok is a versatile round-bottomed cookware and bakeware originating in China. It is used especially in East Asia and Southeast Asia. South Asia also uses a similarly-shaped vessel known as a karahi....
s are used to make timed runs down an Olympic bobsled track. There are competitions for one-person-woksleds and four-person-woksleds, the latter using four woks per sled. The World Wok Racing Championships are aired by the German television channel ProSieben as special edition of Raab's show TV total
TV total

TV total is a Germany late-night television comedy talk show that has run since March 8, 1999, on ProSieben and is currently aired at around 23:15 from Monday to Thursday....
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History
Wok racing was inspired by a bet in the German TV show Wetten, dass..?
Wetten, dass..?

Wetten, dass..? is a German language game and entertainment TV show. It is the most successful television show in Europe.The shows are broadcast live six to seven times a year from different cities in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland and can easily attract 50% and more of all German speaking Europe on that evening....
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Wok racing is a sport
Sport

Sport is an activity that is governed by a set of regulation of sport or traditions and often engaged in competitively. Sports commonly refer to activities where the physical capabilities of the competitor are the sole or primary determinant of the outcome , but the term is also used to include activities such as mind sports and motor...
 developed by the German TV host and entertainer Stefan Raab
Stefan Raab

Stefan Konrad Raab is a German entertainer, music producer, singer and comedian. He attended Jesuit boarding school Aloisiuskolleg in Bonn. Before entering the media world, he worked as a butcher and studied law school before dropping out of college after five semesters....
. Modified Chinese
China

China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....
 wok
Wok

A wok is a versatile round-bottomed cookware and bakeware originating in China. It is used especially in East Asia and Southeast Asia. South Asia also uses a similarly-shaped vessel known as a karahi....
s are used to make timed runs down an Olympic bobsled track. There are competitions for one-person-woksleds and four-person-woksleds, the latter using four woks per sled. The World Wok Racing Championships are aired by the German television channel ProSieben as special edition of Raab's show TV total
TV total

TV total is a Germany late-night television comedy talk show that has run since March 8, 1999, on ProSieben and is currently aired at around 23:15 from Monday to Thursday....
.

History


Wok racing was inspired by a bet in the German TV show Wetten, dass..?
Wetten, dass..?

Wetten, dass..? is a German language game and entertainment TV show. It is the most successful television show in Europe.The shows are broadcast live six to seven times a year from different cities in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland and can easily attract 50% and more of all German speaking Europe on that evening....
. In November 2003, the First official Wok World Championship was broadcast from Winterberg
Winterberg

Winterberg is a town in the Hochsauerland district, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany....
. The immediate success led to the second world championship in Innsbruck
Innsbruck

Innsbruck is the Capital of the federal state of Tyrol in western Austria. It is located in the Inn River Valley at the junction with the Wipptal , which provides access to the Brenner Pass, some 30 km south of Innsbruck....
 on March 4, 2004. Participants are mostly b-list celebrities like pop singers, actors, and TV hosts, but there are also known athletes that have ongoing professional careers in winter sports, like three-time Olympic champion Georg Hackl
Georg Hackl

Georg Hackl is a Germany former luger who was three time Olympic Games and World Champion. He is known affectionately as Hackl-Schorsch or as the Speeding Wei?wurst a reference to what he looks like in his white bodysuit coming down the luge at fast speeds....
 and the Jamaican Bobsled Team. The third championship took place again in Winterberg on March 5, 2005. In contrast to the previous championships, there were two runs in which all contesters participated. The times of both runs were added. As a further innovation a qualifying round was created in which the participants had to jump from a trickski-jump with woks to determine the starting order. Further the sport event was professionalized.

Due to excessive amounts of advertizing within the Wok World Championship a Berlin court ordered the show to be labelled an infomercial from the 2009 event onwards.

Equipment

The typical racing woks are the ordinary round-bottomed Chinese pans, usually directly imported from China
China

China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....
. The only modifications are that the bottom is reinforced with an epoxy
Epoxy

In chemistry, epoxy or polyepoxide is a thermosetting epoxide polymer that cures when mixed with a catalyst agent or hardener. Most common epoxy resins are produced from a reaction between epichlorohydrin and bisphenol-A....
 filling and the edges of the wok are coated with polyurethane
Polyurethane

A polyurethane, commonly abbreviated PU, is any polymer consisting of a chain of organic chemistry units joined by carbamate links. Polyurethane polymers are formed by reacting a monomer containing at least two isocyanate functional groups with another monomer containing at least two alcohol groups in the presence of a catalyst....
 foam to avoid injuries. Four-person woksleds consist of two pairs of woks, each of them is held together by a rounded frame. The two pairs are connected by a coupling. Due to the rather risky nature of the sport the participants wear heavy protective gear, usually similar to ice hockey equipment
Ice hockey equipment

In ice hockey, players use specialized equipment both to facilitate the play of the game and for protection....
. To further reduce friction
Friction

File:Friction alt.svgFriction is the force resisting the relative lateral motion of solid surfaces, fluid layers, or material elements in contact....
 and the risk of injuries, the athletes wear ladle
Ladle (spoon)

A ladle is a type of spoon used to scoop up and serve soup or other liquids. Although designs vary, a typical ladle has a long handle terminating in a deep bowl, frequently with the bowl oriented at an angle to the handle to facilitate lifting liquid out of a pot or other vessel and conveying it to a bowl....
s under their feet.

To improve performance, the underside of the woks are often heated with a blowlamp before the race.

Statistics


Venues

November 6, 2003: Winterberg
Winterberg

Winterberg is a town in the Hochsauerland district, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany....
 March 4, 2004: Innsbruck
Innsbruck

Innsbruck is the Capital of the federal state of Tyrol in western Austria. It is located in the Inn River Valley at the junction with the Wipptal , which provides access to the Brenner Pass, some 30 km south of Innsbruck....
 March 5, 2005: Winterberg
Winterberg

Winterberg is a town in the Hochsauerland district, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany....
 March 11, 2006: Innsbruck
Innsbruck

Innsbruck is the Capital of the federal state of Tyrol in western Austria. It is located in the Inn River Valley at the junction with the Wipptal , which provides access to the Brenner Pass, some 30 km south of Innsbruck....
 March 9, 2007: Innsbruck
Innsbruck

Innsbruck is the Capital of the federal state of Tyrol in western Austria. It is located in the Inn River Valley at the junction with the Wipptal , which provides access to the Brenner Pass, some 30 km south of Innsbruck....
 March 8, 2008: Altenberg
Altenberg, Germany

Altenberg is a town in the S?chsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge district, in the Free State of Saxony, Germany. It is situated in the Ore Mountains , close to the border with the Czech Republic, 15 km northwest of Teplice, and 32 km south of Dresden....
 March 7, 2009: Winterberg
Winterberg

Winterberg is a town in the Hochsauerland district, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany....


World Champions


One-person Wok

Four-person Wok

Records


  • Speed Records
    • Winterberg:
      • One-Person-Wok: 89.98 km/h (Georg Hackl, 2005)
      • Four-Person-Wok: 109.58 km/h (Nissan Racing Team, 2005)
    • Innsbruck:
      • One-Person-Wok: 91.70 km/h (Georg Hackl, 2007)
      • Four-Person-Wok: 97.00 km/h (FROSTA, 2006)


  • Course Records
    • Winterberg:
      • One-Person-Wok: 47.621 seconds (Georg Hackl, 2005)
      • Four-Person-Wok: 57.117 seconds (TV total, 2005)
    • Innsbruck:
      • One-Person-Wok: 54.840 seconds (Georg Hackl, 2007)
      • Four-Person-Wok: 52.527 seconds (Fisherman's Friend, 2006)


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