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Australia has a new record for the heaviest pumpkin.

Congratulations to Ben Surma of Yarravel NSW for gowing his massive 518kg pumpkin that he had weighed at 2011Kootingal Pumpkin Festival .

Ben cannot get his arms around his massive 518kg pumpkin.

Bronwyn Singleton of Knox in Victoria is chuffed about her Atlantic Giant ( Bobier ) Pumpkin . She says she is out to get a new Australian record or better still a world record.     

Below the result :-  Weighed at the Waverly Industries Day of Champions

Not a new Record but a great effort to grow this 206kg pumpkin in a standard residential back yard.

Pictured is Bronwyn  sitting on her 206kg pumpkin with Phillip Mc Cauley.

 

2010  Current World Record for Pumpkins 

 

Congratulations to Chris Stevens of New Richmond, Wisconsin, has broken the Guinness World Record for the largest pumpkin ever grown. He delivered his huge pumpkin to the Stillwater Harvest Fest in Stillwater, Minnesota, on Saturday 9th October 2010. 

His pumpkin made it to the scales showing 1,810.5 pounds ( 821.9kg ).

 

The pumpkin was significantly larger that the previous world record pumpkin of 1,725 pounds grown in Ohio by Christy Harp in 2009.