The Winnemucca Event Center has been a busy place the last couple weeks, as nearly 750 competitors from around the nation are competing in the 2021 World Horseshoe Pitching Championships. Opening ceremonies were held on Monday, July 19. Pitchers compete in different divisions in a three-day competition and come back the final week for the championships. The origin of this sport goes back to the days of the Roman Empire. Roman soldiers pitched horseshoes discarded from the horses used to drive their chariots. Soldiers in the American Revolutionary War pitched horseshoes for recreation on the Boston Common. The Duke of Wellington in history said that the war was won by the pitchers of the steel (horseshoes).
