Teenager wins stone skimming world championships in Easdale

Teenager wins stone skimming world championships in Easdale

The competition in Easdale in Argyll was suspended in 2020 due to the Covid pandemic.

I've won the World Stone Skimming Championships 5 times

Growing up, I was often told I ‘throw like a boy’ (Picture: Lucy Wood) As I looked out across the surface of Ladybower Reservoir in Derbyshire, I noticed a steady stream of ripples. It wasn’t from the stones I’d been skimming. Not rain, or wind. It was something else. Fish, perhaps? It wasn’t until I was lying awake in bed later that night – my legs burning – that I realised what the rippling had been: a cloud of midges basking in the summer eve…