3rd WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP IN OLIVE PICKING
After a very successful second edition of the World Olive Picking Championship in 2018, the Municipality of Postira Tourist Board and the Postira Agricultural Cooperative are organising the third consecutive World Olive Picking Championship! It is an event that will take place from 10 to 13 October 2019 in Postira, on the island of Brač, with the aim of promoting olive growing and everything linked to it. Participants will be Mediterranean countries with a tradition in olive oil production but also others which have no olive tree but which are connected with olives and olive oil.
Last year, Postira hosted teams from eleven countries – Slovenia, Hungary, Montenegro, The Netherlands, France, USA, Great Britain, Sweden, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Spain and domestic Croatia (Postira and Dol inhabitants). The absolute winner of the 2nd World Olive Picking Championship was the Croatian National Team with 67 kg of olives picked. The second place was taken by the Montenegrin Team whilst the third place was the Slovenian Team. At the festive evening of proclamation of winners, the winners stone medals were awarded by the Mayor of Postira, Mr Siniša Marović as the envoy of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Croatia, Mr Andrej Plenković.
This year the national teams of participant countries will also count four members (two women and two men members), whilst the categories in which they will measure their strengths are traditional picking “na sakete” and modern picking (using shakers and rakes). Besides the competition part, workshops will be organised, as well as tastings, tours and entertaining evenings in order to experience Postira, the eco-ethno village Dol but also the island of Brač itself, in the best way thus enriching the tourist post-season.
Participants in 2019.:
1. Poland
2. Germany
3. Bosnia and Herzegovina
4. Great Britain
5. Slovenia
6. Sweden
7. Tunisia
8. France
9. Belgium
10. Republic of South Africa
11. United States of America
12. Slovakia
13. Croatia
Two more teams can be signed up, but from non-listed countries, until 7th of September 2019 at 12 pm. For more info please contact us via: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
