The 1st Extreme Ironing World Championships was the inaugural championship for the quirky British sport of extreme ironing.
The first event, held in mid-September 2002 in Valley, Bavaria, a small village near Munich in the district Miesbach, was host to competitors from ten nations, comprising 12 teams (three were from Britain).
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