A Kansas woman won a narrow victory over her counterpart in England in the traditional Pancake Day race. Whitney Hay, 21, of Liberal, Kansas, ran the 415-yard course in 1 minute, 7 seconds on Tuesday. That beat Katie Godof of Olney, England, who ran her race in 1 minute, 10 seconds.
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The annual trans-Atlantic pancake-flipping race between Olney and Liberal began in 1950. It wasn't held last year because of the coronavirus pandemic. Hay, a student at Southwestern College in Winfield, also ran the Liberal segment of the race in 2020 but Olney won that year's race. Each woman is required to flip a pancake in a frying pan at the start and at the finish of the race.