# An American horticulture teacher is hoping to reclaim the world record for growing the heaviest pumpkin after winning his fifth giant-pumpkin competition. Travis Gienger travelled from Minnesota to California with his vegetable which weighed one-thousand-and-83 kilograms, and won the annual contest in Half Moon Bay. The world record was broken in England last week, where a pumpkin weighing one-thousand-300 kilograms took the title. Gienger has held the world record before and is one of many growers joining competitions this month hoping their pumpkins will be king.
Giant pumpkin champion eyes world record