Have you ever won anything?

Ands

Ever won anything, or been gifted anything unexpectedly? The lottery? A year's supply of Winalot? £24,000,000 from a Nigerian law farm acting on behalf of a deceased relative you didn't know you had?

Well, I am now the proud owner of a Pearl Izumi 'limited edition' black Garmin jersey. 8) I won it in the free draw at my new LBS (Bemoore Bikes in Lymm - they deserve a plug!) . It's rather nice in black and looks pretty cool on.

What have you won?

Wooliferkins

A few years back when still in the military £20 of tickets in the Mess Christmas draw to get someone of my back paid out as £700 of power tools with a Workmate and a weekend theatre break in London.

disgruntledgoat

I won a Sheffield United season ticket on Radio 5 once... And a couple of rubbish bike races a number of years ago.

prawny

I won tickets to see dashboard confessional in a radio competition, it's the only thing I've ever won.

The tickets never came

njee20

I won 'The Weakest Link' on BBC1, it was televised last night actually!

iainment

5 numbers up on the Irish Lotto and won €1400. Went out to celebrate and on way home my partner hit a pothole and went over the handlebars, landed on her face and fractured her jaw in 3 places.

Won school 800m and 1500m setting new school records - first year sports in metric there, records only lasted 1 year, still got certificates from that.

Won Lucky 7 quiz on LBC about 20 years ago, got a t shirt, bottles of wine, mugs, stickers and other crap.

Won Football World Cup book off Time Out just before Italia 90.

Won 2 tickets to opening match of Rugby League World Cup at Wembley, was the centenary of the League and there was a big parade and then Diana Ross singing.

£50 premium bond.

That's about it really.

Ben6899

Football medals and trophies. I won't bother listing them.

Slow Downcp

A football autographed by the Wolves 1977 (I think) League Cup winning team, and the odd £10 on the lottery

disgruntledgoat

Sorry, I was part of the team that won the West Cumberland Midweek Cricket League Div. 1 in 2000. You'd think we'd won the Ashes.

APIII

I won £50 on my Egg credit card in a monthly prize draw. Nothing else apart from some BMX races in the late 80's.

markos1963

Won the football pools twice in 3 months, £40 each time.

First year of lottery won 2x 4 number wins, £40 & £116 plus 10x £10 wins spending £3 a week

A 20' LCD TV/DVD Player at my works Xmas party lottery(free ticket as well!)

A weekend in Milan staying at the HIlton as a guest of the NBA to watch the 1999 World Basketball Championships. Got to meet the San Antonio Spurs and to boogie on the court at half time with the cheerleaders(best part ) Mega party afterwards!

northernneil

disgruntledgoat wrote:

I won a Sheffield United season ticket on Radio 5 once... And a couple of rubbish bike races a number of years ago.

this is a prize ?!?!?!?! :oops: :oops:

Maurice Thepity

I won a recipe book from the Ambrosia Rice Pudding people after sending in a competition entry I got while watching the Milk Race.

northernneil

njee20 wrote:

I won 'The Weakest Link' on BBC1, it was televised last night actually!

Nick, 23 from Guilford, transport planner

dandel36

I won £10,000 to spend on a caravan 2 years ago

cee

When i was about 9, i won a can of beer in a welly wanging competition at a local fair. they swapped it for cola.

my girlfriends dad used to be competition mad...did every 'comp' he could find....and won loads of stuff, including 2 cars, £10000's worth of fully fitted kitchen, loads of things like toasters, cd players, etc....lifetime free gas and electric....but got a cash alternative there...and loads of other weird stuff.

blu3cat

Won a few pub quizzes as part of teams (Mrs Blu3cat is a great quiz player), although the best moment was when we drew with another team in one of the more salubrious establishment in SW London, and were happy with second as the other team had a man-mountain who had corrected someone who challenged the answer to a question: What does CPS stand for by saying "Crown Prosecution Service - they're the B*stards that did me last month". Ah well second still payed for the beers for the night.

biondino

I won a Rapha jersey here on Bikeradar! It was only second prize, but the first prize was some less than attractive team kit so I was pretty pleased.

redddraggon

2005 - Wales V All Black Tickets from the BBC.

It was the year Wales won their first Grand Slam for yonks, and so Everyone in Wales was Rugby fan again, so I couldn't get any tickets no matter how hard I tried. 2004 I had got Tickets for Wales v All Blacks with no difficulty, but in 2005 there were too many Glory Supporters.

The day before the match I was in an exam, and I had my phone on me on silent :roll: , didn't answer though. Luckily the same number rang me an hour later saying I'd won tickets for the match.

The tickets were priceless to me. We ended up getting hammered 40-3 or something in the end

Ben6899

Slow Downcp wrote:

A football autographed by the Wolves 1977 (I think) League Cup winning team, and the odd £10 on the lottery

Will that have included Pete Daniel's signature?

antooony

I won the heart of my gorgeous girlfriend...

(its ok lads, I've not gone soft, just thinking if she reads this then I'll be in her good books for at least 23 minutes so can tell her about the new bike bits Ive ordered)

Ands

antooony wrote:

I won the heart of my gorgeous girlfriend...

(its ok lads, I've not gone soft, just thinking if she reads this then I'll be in her good books for at least 23 minutes so can tell her about the new bike bits Ive ordered)

aaah, and I bet she thought she'd won the lottery when she met you :P

takethehighroad

I'm gona get mine in on before Pokerface trumps us all.

I won a tenner on the Sheffield United Super Draw.

Satans Budgie

Many, many years ago, in a works raffle I won a rear fog light for the car I didn't own.

greasedscotsman

I won the first Cycling Weekly Tour de France League in '97, got myself a nice Cannondale R4000 (CAD 3 frame, Dura Ace, Coda chainset, spinergy wheels). Pretty good bike, but sold it to buy a Giant TCR Advanced, then sold that to buy a Tarmac SL

Oh and I think I got a T-shirt from them as well...

mrushton

It was like winning a prize when i met my girlfriend. Younger than me, great-looking,fantastic cook and er....'other stuff' a superb bike rider who now can outsprint a lot of cyclists both on the road and at the track. She loves Assos kit/Sidi shoes etc so no problem with buying the good stuff and we can have more bikes Downside? Her family are just ordinary like me so no inheritance

Otherwise,various Premium Bonds, a voucher towards some jewellery,a radio and a days sailing at Cowes courtesy of the Radio Times

Steve_b77

Won a "Name to product" competition when I was 15 for naming a seat box (fishing type thing) got the first one off the production line as a prize and the box has been called the same ever since.

Won countless matches (again fishing) so lots of medal & trophies for that.

Won fastest top speed at the Halloween shoot-out @ Shakespeare County Raceway in Class A (up to 2ltr) with 103.summit mph in a Normally Aspirated "rice rocket"

Won the Redline 1/4mile shoot-out series at York Race Way 3 years running, twice in upto 1600 NA and once in upto 2ltr NA.

Got nominated by the biggest Honda club in the UK to represent them @ the Natioanl Jap show in best 90's class.

Max Power Show (yeah I know)top 100 modified car entry 3 years running.

erm thats about it I think other than some athletics & football stuff @ school, and prizes @ school prize night.

Oh yeah, also got 2nd overall in Cheshire Young Inventor of the year @ school

Not a bad career in winning stuff up until a few years ago

mrushton

I used to work with someone who entered those competitions where you eg buy a pan to win a trip to France or a case of lager to visit the brewery. Often it involved writing a caption and he was a regular winner, visiting Canada (Molson) and various cities in Europe. His best ever was a competiton for a pasta company and he won a cookery holiday in Italy with 11 others. These 12 winners were then entered in a draw for a Ferrari which he won!! He kept it for a year and sold it on for about £50k (this was in the 80s).

andy162

Won tickets to see The Cure. Half a dozen bands did one off charity gigs for WarChild. The idea was that the band played at clubs that they started their careers in. The Cure played at The Camden Barfly infront of 200 people. They did 3 hrs & they seemed to love it as much as the crowd. It was a "winners" night & we were offered silly money outside the venue for the tickets. That was a non starter tho as you needed your passport/ winners email /special code thing to get in.

Anonymous

I won a Fraggle Rock Jigsaw Puzzle from BBC Cefax compeition when I was 9

Won a flight in a Phantom Jet when I was 15 by winning a Model Aircraft Making Competition

Won Mr Aberdeen over 90kg Bodybuilding Comp at 20 And Arm Wrestling Scotish Champ the same year.

Just tenners on the lottery since them days :roll:

term1te

I won £125 in a Sainsbury's competition to celebrate their 125 year. Came second in a 75 km mountain bike race, if that counts, I thought I'd won, but I hadn't. Won the OU MBA finance (B821) residential course pub quiz in 2004.

Won a rucksack in a health and safety quiz where I work. The amazing thing was that the quiz was in German, and at the time I didn’t speak German (still not that good), so I’d guessed the multiple choice answers, and still won!