A group of 38 competitors participated in a gravedigging contest at a cemetery in Nyergesujfalu, northern Hungary, on Saturday. The Hungarian Association of Cemetery Maintainers and Operators organized the event to showcase the trade's skills and combat death-related taboos. Robert Nagy and his teammate Laszlo Kiss won the competition with a winning time of 1 hour 21 minutes, digging to contest specifications.
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🔮 The event at a cemetery in Nyergesujfalu, northern Hungary, showcases the gravedigging trade and aims to shake off death-related taboos
A gravedigging contest in a Hungarian cemetery may sound like the opening line of a comedy sketch.
Competitors dig deep at Hungarian gravedigging contest
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Competitors → dig → contest
The event at a cemetery in Nyergesujfalu, northern Hungary, showcases the gravedigging trade and aims to shake off death-related taboos
A gravedigging contest in a Hungarian cemetery may sound like the opening line of a comedy sketch.
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contest → showcase → sketch
It proved to be anything but as 38 competitors grabbed picks and shovels on Saturday.
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competitors → prove → Saturday
The Hungarian Association of Cemetery Maintainers and Operators organises the contest to showcase the gravedigging trade and its skills, and shake off death-related taboos.
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Association → organise → taboos
The dry summer-baked soil in the public cemetery in Nyergesujfalu, northern Hungary, proved a worthy adversary for the 19 two-man teams.
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soil → bake → teams
They huffed and puffed and sweated as they raced for the title of quickest-dug and most stylish grave.
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they → huff → grave
“Speed is the main thing here, not the beauty,” said Robert Nagy, the victor with his teammate Laszlo Kiss.
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Nagy → say → teammate
“When you have to dig a grave for a funeral, you have to be very careful about the exact dimensions and to make sure that it is beautifully carved.”
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Their winning time was 1 hour 21 minutes, digging to contest specifications.
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