The Porte de Versailles area is a vibrant part of Paris with a mix of attractions, dining options, and green spaces that offer plenty to explore
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Tri Wahyu (Indonesia) & Monika Remes (Czech Republic) are making history as the first ever representatives from their countries in the 2025 World Champion Butcher Apprentice & Young Butcher competitions.
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Matt Tyquin, the 2022 World Champion Butcher Apprentice, has continued to make waves in the butchery world, recently claiming two prestigious Australian honors at the 70th Victorian Training Awards: Victoria’s Apprentice of the Year and the People’s Choice Award.
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Check out the latest team representing Australia, we can’t wait to watch them compete in Paris!
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In exciting news - tickets are now officially available for the largest butchery event on earth - the 2025 World Butchers’ Challenge (WBC)!
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We’re shaking things up around here and as such, we’re thrilled to announce Van Hessen as the latest partner to join the WBC community, taking on naming rights of the “World’s Best Gourmet Sausage’ category.
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This month, I had the absolute pleasure of visiting our 2025 WBC hosts in Paris. I’m bursting to tell you all about it and can't wait for the best butchers in the world to experience what I did and more next March.
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Joining our existing 12 countries is Belgium, Romania and Spain. In addition, we’re excited to also have representation from our first Asian country with Indonesia represented in the World Champion Young Butcher category.
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Owner of the Best Butchers’ Shop of the Year For Great Britain (2017), David Lishman (Yorkshire Dales, England) has been appointed as the new Head Judge for the World Butchers’ Challenge in Paris, 2025.
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Following the biggest news of 2023, being the announcement of the next World Butchers’ Challenge (WBC) to take place in Paris, March 3—31 2025, we are proud to share we have welcomed a new partner onboard. Anago Limited shares a similar background to the WBC, having been born out of New Zealand from a vision to improve the overall quality and success of the sector.
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The countdown to the World Butchers’ Challenge (WBC) has officially begun, with the culinary capital of Paris, France chosen to host the hotly anticipated event in March 2025. Branded by many as the ‘Olympics of Meat’, the ninth WBC will be fittingly held at Paris Arena Sud 6, part of the impressive Paris Expo Exhibition Centre, currently gearing up to host the world’s best handballers and weightlifters at the Paris 2024 Olympics.
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After going knife-to-knife with a record 12 other countries at the Golden 1 Center in Sacramento, The Butcher Wolfpack of Germany were named the best butchers in the world at this year's World Butchers’ Challenge, also known as the ‘Olympics of Meat’.
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After forced covid cancellations, the event, known as the ‘Olympics of Meat’, is back and bigger than ever with a record 14 countries competing in California.
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This month on ‘The Break Down’ we’re catching up with Victor Martinet of Team France ahead of the first ever European Cup taking place in Clermont-Ferrand in the centre of France!
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This month we’re chatting to the captain of Team Mexico - Oscar Yedra! In the lead up to World Butchers’ Challenge 2022, we’re (virtually) catching up with competitors around the world to see what they’ve been up to, what their game plan is for 2022 and how they’ve been keeping their skills sharp.
This is: ‘The Break Down’
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We are excited to announce we are opening partnership opportunities for the 2022 competition, set to be held at the Golden 1 Center in Sacramento on 2-3 September, with packages outlined in a recently released Partnership Kit.
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In the lead up to World Butchers’ Challenge 2022, we’re (virtually) catching up with competitors around the world to see what they’ve been up to, what their game plan is for 2022 and how they’ve been keeping their skills sharp.
This is: ‘The Break Down’.
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The French Federation of Butchers will organize the first « Meatings » in Clermont-Ferrand on November 7 and 8, 2021, in the presence of many professionals and young butchers. As part of this event, we plan to organize exchanges between colleagues around the theme of innovation in meat sector.
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As we have, inevitably, rescheduled the WBC and WCBA&YB twice now, delaying the original date by two years we have had to make some tough calls. One of which is a change to the participant criteria for the WCBA&YB in order to ensure the competitions remain fair and relevant.
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In the lead up to World Butchers’ Challenge 2022, we’re (virtually) catching up with competitors around the world to see what they’ve been up to, what their game plan is for 2022 and how they’ve been keeping their skills sharp.
This is: ‘The Break Down’.
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