{"id":62564,"date":"2026-10-12T03:12:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T03:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/winner-crowned-at-world-conker-championships-in-southwick\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T03:12:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T03:12:15","slug":"winner-crowned-at-world-conker-championships-in-southwick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/winner-crowned-at-world-conker-championships-in-southwick\/","title":{"rendered":"Winner crowned at World Conker Championships in Southwick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b>The winner of this year&#8217;s World Conker Championships said she was &#8220;ecstatic&#8221; after clinching the title. <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">More than 250 conker combatants, including entrants from Japan, Holland and Germany, headed to Southwick in Northamptonshire for Sunday&#8217;s event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Frankie Hooper, 28, from Oundle, won the overall event after beating the men&#8217;s winner, Simon Griffiths, in a nail-biting, nut-shattering showdown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hooper, now known as Queen Conker, said: &#8220;I am feeling pretty ecstatic&#8230; I came into it this morning for a chilled fun day with my friends, and now I am a world champion for the females. It is amazing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Runner-up Griffiths, 35, from Stamford, the new King Conker, said: &#8220;My wife is never going to hear the end of it&#8230; I am going to change my name I think.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/ckwy47e44l0lo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The winner of this year&#8217;s World Conker Championships said she was &#8220;ecstatic&#8221; after clinching the title. More than 250 conker combatants, including entrants from Japan, Holland and Germany, headed to Southwick in Northamptonshire for Sunday&#8217;s event. Frankie Hooper, 28, from Oundle, won the overall event after beating the men&#8217;s winner, Simon Griffiths, in a nail-biting, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62565,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[9311,17075,6516,17076,1165,510],"class_list":["post-62564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-england","tag-championships","tag-conker","tag-crowned","tag-southwick","tag-winner","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62566,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62564\/revisions\/62566"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}