Third time clearly proved to be the charm for this year’s winner of the Spaghetti Bridge Competition in Kelowna.
Peter Sandor, an engineering student from the College of Nyiregyhaza in Hungary, clinched the title of spaghetti bridge heavyweight champion at Okanagan College on Friday afternoon.
Sandor’s bridge, which weighed in at 967 grams, held 384.06 kg before it shattered.
The student won $1,500 for his pasta engineering efforts.
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The world record for a spaghetti bridge heavyweight belongs to Norbert Pozsonyi and Aliz Totivan from Szechenyi Istvan University of Gyor in Hungry. The pair’s bridge held a whopping 443.58 kg before it collapsed.
Second place in the heavyweight division was won by Jordan Hipkiss and Joel Peters, students in the civil engineering technology program at Okanagan College. The duo’s bridge held 129.13 kg. Third place went to Clayton Mazu of Cherryville. Mazu’s bridge held 127.41 kg,
Here are the winners of the secondary competition where students are challenged to build the lightest bridge that will hold one kg of weight for five minutes:
1) Christien Issler from Charles Bloom Secondary
2) Isaac Lengacher-Bergeron from KSS
3) Kenedi Hurlburt from KSS
4) Mitchel Martell from KSS
5) Christine Batke and Jason Kepler from Revelstoke Secondary School
Below are the winners of the secondary team competition:
1) Ty Walker, Colin Baker, Devon Hood, and Carson Mintram from OKM
2) Jonathan Halbgwachs from Charles Bloom Secondary
3) Julia Hudson, Lauren Ek, and Pascale D’Aoust from Skaha Lake Middle School
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