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== [[Europe]] ==
* '''Eurizons''' was a hitchhiking race through Europe with about 50 participants, which took place in 2006 and 2007. It was organized by [http://http://glen-europe.org/?page_id=33 GLEN] (Global Education Network) and included some workshops about the Millennium Development Goals.
* '''Race to Riga''' was a race from [[Faro]], [[Portugal]], to [[Riga]]. <!-- ''[http://www.racetoriga.com/ Link broken 00:34, 9 January 2010 (UTC) -->
=== [[Belgium]] ===* '''[http://www.routedusoleil.org/ Route du Soleil]''' is an annual one week race for Belgian students organized since 2010, from Belgium to "one of the sunniest destination in Europe". In the summer of 2011 they will even try to break the world record of biggest hitchhiking race with 900 participants. To deal with the number of participants, the different routes have a one day shift so they don't all leave and arrive on the same date. The final winner is decided between the winners of each route during a later race. Several prizes are to be won and the organization also provides some entertainment, food and camping facilities along the way, but this all has go be paid for, the registration fee (for 2014) was a mindblowing EUR 290. And it seems you can only enter the race if you are a follower of the $uckerberg sect.* The '''[[BBOHC3|Big Belgian Hitchhiking Contest]]''' was an annually event, starting in [[Gent|Ghent]]. The race is 300 to 500 km long and lasts one day. The third edition took place in October 2008 and doesn't seem to have been repeated since.
* '''[http://www.tramprennen.org Tramprennen]''' is an annual hitchhike race across Europe, which takes place at the end of August since 2006. The race lasts usually two weeks and is divided into different stages. Step by step the participating teams (2 or 3 people) are getting closer to the common final destination. It also supports the charity organization [Viva con Agua] by raising funds for WASH (water, sanitation & hygiene) projects. 117 participants took part in 2012. Several other races are affiliated with tramprennen, mostly around the university Easter break period.
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There are a lot of '''[[hitchhiking]] races''', mostly in Summer.
== [[Active]] ==
=== [[Europe]] ===
* '''[http://www.tramprennen.org Tramprennen]''' is an annual hitchhike race across Europe, which takes place at the end of August since 2006. The race lasts usually two weeks and is divided into different stages. Step by step the participating teams (2 or 3 people) are getting closer to the common final destination. It also supports the charity organization [Viva con Agua] by raising funds for WASH (water, sanitation & hygiene) projects. 117 participants took part in 2012. Several other races are affiliated with tramprennen, mostly around the university Easter break period.
=== [[Belgium]] ===
* '''[http://www.routedusoleil.org/ Route du Soleil]''' is an annual one week race for Belgian students organized since 2010, from Belgium to "one of the sunniest destination in Europe". In the summer of 2011 they will even try to break the world record of biggest hitchhiking race with 900 participants. To deal with the number of participants, the different routes have a one day shift so they don't all leave and arrive on the same date. The final winner is decided between the winners of each route during a later race. Several prizes are to be won and the organization also provides some entertainment, food and camping facilities along the way, but this all has go be paid for, the registration fee (for 2014) was a mindblowing EUR 290.
=== [[Germany]] ===
== [[Inactive]] ==
=== [[Europe]] ===* '''Eurizons''' was a hitchhiking race through Europe with about 50 participants, which took place in 2006 and 2007. It was organized by [http://http://glen-europe.org/?page_id=33 GLEN] (Global Education Network) and included some workshops about the Millennium Development Goals.* '''Race to Riga''' was a race from [[Faro]], [[Portugal]], to [[Riga]]. <!-- ''[http://www.racetoriga.com/ Link broken 00:34, 9 January 2010 (UTC) -->=== [[Belgium]] ===* The '''[[BBOHC3|Big Belgian Hitchhiking Contest]]''' was an annually event, starting in [[Gent|Ghent]]. The race is 300 to 500 km long and lasts one day. The third edition took place in October 2008 and doesn't seem to have been repeated since.
=== [[Oceania]] ===
==== [[Australia]] ====
* '''[http://thebiggreenhitch.org The Big Green Hitch]''' first took place in march 2013. It supports the Friends of the Earth NGO by raising funds. This edition was a one week 1000 km hitch hiking race from Melbourne to the Mouth of the Murray River (near Adelaide) along the Great Ocean Road. 14 participants took part.
=== [[Czech Republic]] ===
* The '''[http://race.abgefahren-ev.de German hitchhiking society]''' [[Abgefahren e.V.]] was organizing the annual German Hitchhiking Championship end of May/beginning of June from 2008 until 2016. It was a one day race taking place in Germany with 80 to 100 participants. In 2012, teams had to choose 3 intermediate checkpoints among the proposed ones. It was to avoid having to many people following the same route at the same time.
** [https://www.tramperrennen.de/ Tramp'''er'''rennen] is the unofficial/partly unauthorized successor of the Abgefahren race that took place in 2019 and 2020.
=== [[Hungary]] ===
* The '''[http://hungarohitch.com/index_eng.html HungaroHitch]''' is an annual hitchhiking race over a weekend in the middle of July. First event in 2015. The two person teams have to find points in Hungary and in the neighbour countries. They have to give good answers to questions, solve tasks and collect points. The winning team collects the most points and reach the final point before the deadline. ColdHitch is their winter race in December. Next race is in September 2022.'''[https://www.facebook.com/hungarohitch Facebook Page]'''
=== [[Lithuania]] ===
=== [[Spain]] ===
* '''[http://perdidosenelmundo.com/ruta-madrid-lisboa-2018/ Ruta Madrid - Lisboa]''' is event for any backpacker around the world. This race is based on Pekin Express where you can travel doing different challenges. How much time do you need to do it?
=== [[Switzerland]] ===
=== [[United Kingdom]] ===
* '''[http://www.bummit.co.uk/ Bummit]''' is a charity hitchhiking society that has been independently run & managed by students from the University of [[Sheffield]] since 2003. It is part of the Sheffield RAG (Raising & Giving) society, which falls under the jurisdiction of the University of Sheffield's Students Union. Every year it organizes a hitchhiking race, the 2016 edition will take place in March and will go to [[Ljubljana]] in [[Slovenia]].
* The '''[http://www.lcdinternational.org/hitch-2016 Hitch 2016 - Link Community Development]''' organizes an annual charity hitchhiking event from the UK to Morocco and Croatia, according to a spokesperson it is '''not''' a race.
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