Cheese Rolling 2026 Results, Best Videos, Photos and Reaction from Race

Competitors returned to Cooper's Hill in Gloucestershire, England, for the annual cheese-rolling race on Monday.

German YouTuber Tom Kopke won the men's downhill race for the seven-pound wheel of double gloucester cheese, doing so for the third year in a row.

Kopke left the door open for a return to the 2027 competition after his victory.

"What will I say? I mean, there's always next year," Kopke said in an interview with BBC Gloucestershire (1:01 mark). "This will be the sweetest cheese I ever got."

Kopke emerged victorious from a crowded field of participants that included Chris Anderson, who was a 23-time champion in the event from 2005 through 2022.

He holds the Guinness World Record for the competition.

"I was so scared at the top," Anderson said after the race, per Clara Bullock of BBC News. "I saw Tom come past me and knew it was over."

"I'm glad one of us won it," he added.

France's Alix Heugas won the women's cheese-rolling race while wearing a mouse onesie.

"I found it was a great bucket list item to have," Heugas said following her victory, per Bullock. "I heard about it when I was in sixth grade and I thought it was time to try it. I think the best strategy is to not have a strategy. I thought: I will start to run and when I trip, that's it, I will just armadillo it down."

The races have been a tradition for over 100 years, as contestants run and tumble down the 180-meter hill.