Weird and Wonderful Competitions That Take Place Around the World

Australia's Tunarama Festival

The Aussie tuna toss is part of Tunarama, an event that happens every year at Port Lincoln, South Australia. It involves people throwing a rubber fish that weighs ten kilograms as far as they can. Sean Carlin, a Common Wealth Gold Medalist, holds the current men's world record for throwing a tuna 37.23m in 1989. Brooke Krueger holds the women's record of 21.25m. That's pretty cool, right? There are also a lot of other tuna-related events and competitions at the Tunarama festival.
There are things like the tuna catch, the tuna race, and the tuna weigh-in. Since 1962, the event has been popular and very competitive.

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