Lenna (Bergamo) – On your mark, get set……Mooooo! And a whole lot of mooing it was at the mungitura a mano (hand milking) competition held in Val Brembana just last week. For being the 1st edition, this event was well-organized and attracted a mixed crowd of all ages. Switzerland, Romania, India and Italy were represented among the 43 contestants (7 of them women). Go Italy!!!! Giving it their udder best XD, participants took to the teats in a contest to extract as much milk as possible within the set time of 2 minutes.
A 31-year old man from the Brescia province took the title with a winning total of 8.7 liters – that’s just over 2 gallons – beating the previous Guinness World Record. Here’s a short clip that I put together and as you can see it was a great day out for everyone. Hopefully it will evolve into something bigger (food stands, markets selling local produce, games for the kids, etc) and become an occasion to look forward to each year.
Rubber Slippers In Italy 
Hello guys I am based in the UK and would love to visit this competition
can you please tell me when and where it is been held this year as i would love to go
and see this 🙂
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Last year’s competition (the 3rd I believe) was held in October in Malonno (province of Brescia). Their website is currently down as I’m typing this but I did pick up some info off of a google cache page.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:OAOOKAa5rKkJ:www.worldcow-milkingchampionship.com/+&cd=2&hl=it&ct=clnk&gl=it&client=firefox-b
There’s also Facebook: https://it-it.facebook.com/campionatomungitura
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Hello Rowena
Thank you very much for your reply. I really want to visit this years competition
looks like a fun few days. i will keep a eye on there website and try and find out when this years one is happening. or if you hear when its happening please drop me a email i would love to hear from you 🙂
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Sounds like a great event!
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Ha! Looking at all of the milk, the thought of butter (for you) came to mind! XD
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Wow that is so cool!! I love cows and would have enjoying seeing the event!! Have a super week! Hugz Lisa and Bear
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BEAR would surely enjoy being there too. Lots of doggies, both big and small were checking out the action.
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