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She then won the Tennessee state championship in her rookie year [1] and is the first Tennessean to win the Women's World Horseshoe Tournament. [4] In 2009, she was inducted into the NHPA Hall of Fame. [3] [5] She had won five Women's National Horseshoe Pitchers Association World Tournaments by 2012 and had won 10 NHPA World Tournaments by 2021 ...
Alan Francis is a horseshoes pitcher from Defiance, Ohio. He has won the World Horseshoe Championship 28 times, in 1989, 1993, 1995–1999, 2001, 2003–2010, 2012–2019 and 2021-2024. That is the most anyone has won it (2nd place belongs to Ted Allen who has won 10).
He is a member of the USBC and PBA Halls of Fame, [36] [37] a member of the World Horseshoe Pitching Hall of Fame, [4] and was a two-time past president of the Professional Bowlers Association. [4] In the 2008–09 season, the PBA's 50th, the PBA commissioned a panel of bowling experts to recognize the "50 Greatest Players of the Last 50 Years."
Alan Francis, sport’s reigning GOAT and 27-time world champion, is coming to town to defend his title at the National Horseshoe Pitching Association’s world tournament, July 29-Aug. 3.
The horseshoes were true horseshoes, nearly circular in shape, and, as in quoits, the expectation was that a ringer would land around the peg and remain there, some insisting the shoe not touch the peg. [3] In the 1907 "World Championship", shoes that rested 2 feet (0.61 m) from the peg were declared foul, and cost the player a half-point each.
Played under the auspices of The National Quoits Association, formed in 1986. In this game, the pins are 11 yards (10 metres) apart, with their tops protruding 3–4 inches (8–10 centimetres) above the clay. Quoits measure about 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (14 cm) in diameter and weigh around 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 lb (2.5 kg). [6]
The World Equestrian Center welcomes visitors, spectators, exhibitors, retailers, vendors and more, but the real stars are the horses and their riders. The venue hosts jumping and dressage ...