Six golds for USA! Passion toppled!

May 15, 2011 12 Comments


The USA took six golds at the 2011 World Beard and Moustache Championships in Trondheim, Norway, while Germany claimed seven, including that of overall winner and Freestyle Full Beard Titan Elmar Weisser whose reindeer beard couldn’t be stopped.

American Rooty Lundvahl of the Whisker Club knocked two-time defending world champ Jack Passion off the top spot in the largest category, Full Beard Natural. Passion was second.

American Burke T. Kenny was restored the Full Beard Styled Moustache he won at the 2007 worlds in England but lost in Alaska in 2009. Whisker Club President Bruce Roe won the Hungarian Moustache Division.

Meanwhile, Keith “Gandhi Jones” Haubrich completed the three-peat in Freestyle Moustache. Newcomers to the world stage Bill Mitchell from Georgia and Giovanni Dominice from Arizona won in Partial Beard Freestyle and Imperial Moustache respectively.

The fledgling Northern Los Angeles Beard and Moustache Club, local chapter of Beard Team USA, copped two silvers, one for Jeffrey Moustache in the English Moustache category, and another for John Myatt in Verdi.

The host Norwegian Moustache Club chose four members of the Whisker Club to serve as judges, including included Roe’s wife Tommy.

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12 Responses to “Six golds for USA! Passion toppled!”

  1. Brian Snoderly May 15, 2011 at 4:17 pm

    Big ups to all the winners from Beard Team USA. You guys rock!

  2. Hester May 15, 2011 at 9:23 pm

    Congrats to ALL Team USA,Where is Doug Renfro place, this is a friend from ANchorage Alaska. I hope he did well, and i passed in the event for the $5000. contest put on by the Amish.
    thanks Very much Robert Hester. I will look for your reply

  3. Phil Olsen May 15, 2011 at 11:37 pm

    Doug finished second in the Garibaldi category. The winner was Fritz Sendlhofer from Austria. Devin Cara from Springfield, Missouri was third.

  4. Andrew Neal May 16, 2011 at 12:55 am

    Congratulations guys! Special congrats to my father-in-law, Bill Mitchell.s

  5. Frank Wolffe May 16, 2011 at 6:42 am

    Since when is Austin Facial Hair Club a chapter of BTUSA? Even if they were why are you pointing out that they didn’t place? Is that a slam at them? An apology for your lack of guidance?

  6. marq lyndon virgilio May 17, 2011 at 9:38 am

    Congratulations everyone! I am so very proud of you all. I cant wait to catch up with y’all in PA.

  7. Tater May 18, 2011 at 1:24 pm

    Way to represent America! Congrats to my (almost)local brothers in North L.A.
    I can’t wait to see the pics!

  8. Tom Chandler May 20, 2011 at 8:32 am

    Burke Kenny has a beautiful beard I really like it as well as his long hair.

  9. alex May 23, 2011 at 5:24 pm

    @Frank thanks for pointing that out. This same article was cross-posted to worldbeardchampionships. Read our (Austin Facial Hair Club) responses there:
    http://www.worldbeardchampionships.com/news/six-golds-for-usa-passion-toppled/#comments

  10. Ron Myers May 30, 2011 at 9:12 pm

    Congratulations guys on a good showing in Norway. Met a lot of you on the cruse ship going up to Anchorage in 2009, and when Debbie and I arrived home, watched the entire show on the streaming video camera in the back of the hall. Very little sound, but I stuck it out. Hope to retire next year and join you all in Germany for 2013. . . until then, keep up the good fight.

  11. Moustache Tie Clip Project July 21, 2011 at 7:01 pm

    Team America woohoo! USA USA USA! We’re very proud of our beards and moustached Americans, and in your honor we have created the Moustache Tie Clip. Let me know if you’re interested in upping your moustache wardrobe game :)

    PS, Burke, you rule.

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