Hitchhiking races

There are a lot of hitchhiking races, mostly in Summer.

Europe

• 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.
• Race to Riga was a race from Faro, Portugal, to Riga.

Belgium

• The Big Belgian Hitchhiking Contest is an annually event, starting in Ghent.

France

• The Hitchhiking Contest is an un-official event, from Paris to Dakar, start in 2011.
• The Pouce d’Or (In English @ CS

Germany

Winners of the Abgefahren hitchhiking race 2010

• The German hitchhiking society Abgefahren e.V. is organizing the German Hitchhiking Championships every year in early summer, starting somewhere in Germany.
• Viva con Agua organizes yearly races and raising funds for drinking water projects.

Lithuania

• The Vilnius Hitchhiking Club has been organizing the annual Baltics competition since 1997. The competition itself pre-dates the foundation of the VHHC by two years. It takes place at the end of April, usually over a distance of around 1,000km, the last edition, Baltics 2010 attracted a record number of participants, 44 pairs.

Netherlands

• The BOC organizes races occasionally just for fun, usually starting from Utrecht, Netherlands.
• Some Dutch people from Uden in the Netherlands are organizing a hitchhiking competition once a year, known in Dutch as the Liftwedstrijd (Website gone, Prino 01:29, 24 September 2010 (CEST))
• AEGEE-Groningen organises every year hitchhiking races to several cities in Europe, with a cultural program and a lot of going out in the night being there! Usually during the week-ends! In October 2010 we will go to Copenhagen!

Poland

• 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.
• Students from BIT The Travelers Club of the Wrocław University of Economy every year organize the Auto Stop Race with around 200-250 pairs. The event takes place during a Polish long weekend, at the beginning of May. The race starts in Wrocław.

United Kingdom

• The University of Sheffield is organizing a hitchhiking race every year:
  • The Bummit to Belgrade was a hitchhiking race in 2007 with 200 students from Sheffield to Belgrade.
  • The Bummit to Tallinn (via Leipzig) takes place Eastern 2008 with over 300 students from Sheffield to Tallinn.
• The Link Community Development organizes an annual race from the UK to Morocco and Prague for charity.
• 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)

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See also hitchhiking for charity