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Championship Pumpkin Results

2009 Winners of Half Moon Bay
World Championship Pumpkin
Weigh-Off

2009 Top Prize Winner:
Don Young of Iowa
1,658-pound Giant Pumpkin

2009 HMB World Championship Pumpkin Winner Breaks Record
Don Young of Des Moines, Iowa (pictured above and below) took Top Prize at this year's annual Half Moon Bay Championship Weigh-Off.

Young's Giant Pumpkin tipped the scales at an impressive 1,658 pounds, setting a Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Weigh-Off record. It was over 100 pounds more than Thad Starr's winning pumpkin last year (1,528 pounds) ... and it broke California's record of 1,535 pounds.

Young attributed his first place win to "good weather, good seeds and good luck!"

Second place went to Leonardo Urena, of Napa, who had a 1,470-pound pumpkin. Pete Glasier, also from Napa, took third place with a 1,174-pound pumpkin. Joel Holland, of Washington, came in fourth place with his 1,121-pound pumpkin.

This year, 13 pumpkins were over 1,000 pounds — two from Half Moon Bay Coastside.

FYI... last Saturday, Christy Harp of Jackson Township, Ohio, took first place in the Ohio Valley Giant Pumpkin Weigh-Off — her winning pumpkin (the world's heaviest) weighed an impressive 1,725 pounds.

"Most Beautiful Pumpkin" 2009
Eric Carlson (and wife, Betty) of Portola Valley, CA won over the audience with their "Most Beautiful Pumpkin" based on color, shape and size — and beautiful it is!

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