page_title: Basque rural sports
section_title: Ingude altxatzea (anvil lifting)
hierarchical_section_title: Basque rural sports / The H18K rural sports / Ingude altxatzea (anvil lifting)
caption_attribution_description: English: Biktor Zabala in an anvil lifting competition (ingude altxatzea)
context_page_description: Basque rural sports, known as Deportes Rurales in Spanish or Herri Kirolak in Basque, is the term used for a number of sports competitions rooted in the traditional lifestyles of the Basque people. The term force basque is used in French.
  Virtually all regional Basque rural sports have their origin in the two main historical occupations, the or baserritarra and arrantzalea, with a larger percentage hailing from the rural background. The sociological changes in the Basque Country have led many of these becoming technically obsolete in the 19th and 20th century. Few continue to exist as rural or marine activities connected to everyday life and have become rare but many have managed to transform themselves into popular sports instead, some of which have become extremely popular.
  Winners receive a Basque beret as a trophy, hence the Basque word for "champion" - txapeldun, literally "one who has a beret".
  Betting, both by the competitors and the audience, is very common and popular at such sporting events in the north of Spain.
context_section_description: The lifting of anvils requires competitors to lift an iron anvil or ingude weighing 18 kg 30 cm above the height of their own head as many times as possible in a set time period. The anvil has the shape of an obtuse triangle with a stump at one point or an elongated T and is traditionally used in shoeing horses. Champions manage some 80 lifts in 2 minutes.
  In Spanish this is called alzamiento de yunque and in French lever d'enclume.
caption: Bittor Zabala in an anvil lifting competition in Eibar in 1928
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