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.

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

The Hitchhiking Contest is an un-official event, from Paris to Dakar, start in 2011.

The German hitchhiking society abgefahren e.V. is organizing a hitchhiking race every year in spring, starting somewhere in Germany.
Viva con Agua organizes yearly races and raising funds for drinking water projects.

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!

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 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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