There are a lot of hitchhiking races every summer.
- Race to Riga was a race from Faro, Portugal, to Riga. - Link broken 00:34, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
- Eurizons is an annual hitchhiking race through Europe with about 50 participants, funded by the European Union including some workshops about the Millennium Development Goals.
- The University of Sheffield is organizing a hitchhiking race every year:
- The BOC organizes races occasionally just for fun, usually starting from Utrecht, Netherlands.
- The Link Community Development organizes an annual race from the UK to Morocco and Prague for charity.
- Some Dutch people from Uden in the Netherlands are organizing a hitchhiking competition once a year, known in Dutch as the Liftwedstrijd
- The Klub Przygody from Poland is organising a hitchhiking competition once a year in the beginning of May. Mostly they start from Gdansk to some destination in Europe.
- The University of St. Andrews Charities Campaign organizes a hitchhiking competition once a year in January. In 2008 they will hitchhike from Scotland towards Amsterdam. - Link broken 00:34, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
- The German hitchhiking society abgefahren e.V. is organizing a hitchhiking race every year in spring, starting somewhere in Germany.
- The Big Belgian Hitchhiking Contents is an annually event, starting in Ghent.
- The Hitchhiking Contest is an un-official event, from Paris to Dakar, start in 2011.
- Know of any other contest? Add it here!
See also [[Hitchhiking for charity[]