A pumpkin named after basketball legend Michael Jordan weighed 2,749 pounds, set a world record and won the World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-off in Half Moon Bay.

This year's giant pumpkin is colossal, but the world's largest pumpkin record was set at last year's 2023 Half Moon Bay World Championship Weigh-Off.

HALF MOON BAY, Calif. — A Minnesota horticulture teacher set a world record in California on Monday for the heaviest pumpkin after growing a giant jack-o’-lantern gourd weighing 2,749 pounds.

His 2,350 pound pumpkin named Tiger King won in 2020. The somehow even bigger pumpkin Maverick won in 2022 at 2,560 pounds. He also shares the world record for the largest jack-’o-lantern by ...

The world's largest pumpkin is named Michael Jordan, was grown in Anoka, Minnesota and took first place at the 50th Annual Safeway World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off in Half Moon Bay Monday.

Good gourd, it's one giant pumpkin! A 43-year-old Minnesota educator can now boast he's grown the heaviest pumpkin on earth. Travis Gienger, a horticulture and landscape teacher at Anoka Technical ...

Raw Video: Minnesota man wins annual Half Moon Bay pumpkin weigh-off 02:51. HALF MOON BAY – A Minnesota grower squashed a national record for growing the largest pumpkin at the "Super Bowl of ...

Guinness World Records lists the current world’s heaviest pumpkin at 2,032 pounds, submitted by Tim Mathison at the Uesugi Farms Pumpkin Park in Napa in October 2013. Advertisement.

The heaviest pumpkin on record in the U.S. — and the world — was grown in Minnesota last year and weighed 2,749 lbs. Grown by Travis Gienger out of Anoka, it also has the third-largest pumpkin ...

Alex Noel, of Connecticut, who won for the heaviest pumpkin at the Topsfield Fair on Friday. (WBZ-TV) Alex Noel, of Connecticut, took home the prize with his giant pumpkin weighing in at 2,294 pounds.

CLARENCE, N.Y. — A 2,554-pound pumpkin grown in upstate New York has set a new U.S. record for the heaviest. State and national records fell over the weekend at the Great Pumpkin Farm in the ...

Part of the world’s largest pumpkin festival, they were there for the annual weigh-in to reveal who had grown Europe’s heaviest pumpkin in 2024.