Hitchhiking races

There are a lot of hitchhiking races every summer.

• Race to Riga was an race from somewhere in Europe to Riga.
• Eurizons is an annual hitchhiking race through Europe with about 50 participants, funded by the European Union including some workshops about the Millennium Development Goals.
• The University of Sheffield is organizing a hitchhiking race every year:
  • The Bummit to Belgrade was a hitchhiking race in 2007 with 200 students from Sheffield to Belgrade.
  • The Bummit to Tallinn (via Leipzig) takes place Eastern 2008 with over 300 students from Sheffield to Tallinn.
• The BOC organizes races every year, occasionally just for fun.
• The Link Community Development organizes an annual race from the UK to Morocco and Prague for charity.
• Some Dutch people from Uden in the Netherlands are organizing a hitchhiking competition once a year, known in Dutch as the Liftwedstrijd
• The Klub Przygody from Poland is organising a hitchhiking competition once a year in the beginning of May. Mostly they start from Gdansk to some destination in Europe.
• The University of St. Andrews Charities Campaign organizes a hitchhiking competition once a year in January. In 2008 they will hitchhike from Scotland towards Amsterdam.
• The German hitchhiking society abgefahren e.V. is organizing it's first hitchhiking competition from 22nd until 25th of May 2008 going from Berlin to the North-west of Poland.
• Know of any other contest? Add it here!