Chris Anderson (cheese roller)
Chris Anderson is a groundworker and an army veteran of the British Army, best known for winning the annual cheese rolling at Cooper's Hill in Gloucestershire a record 22 times. Biography. Chris Anderson is a Ex light infantryman in the 1st Battalion, The Rifles of the British Army. He comes from Brockworth, the village in Gloucestershire at the foot of Cooper's Hill, venue for the cheese rolling races. Anderson first competed in the annual cheese rolling in 2004 at the age of 17 and came second. He won his first race in 2005 and  beat the record, held by Stephen Gyde, in 2018. In his 14 years of competition he has suffered a broken ankle, concussion, a torn calf muscle and bruised kidneys. Despite taking home 22 Double Gloucester cheeses, he only likes Cheddar. After winning three races in 2017, he auctioned one of his three cheeses for a charity in aid of the condition Nonketotic Hyperglycinemia (NKH). Anderson believes that the secret to winning the cheese rolling is to stay on your feet and not fall over. However, footage of him winning the cheese rolling for a record 21st time reveals that he  does in fact fall over, but he also has a particular talent for getting up again straight away, propelling himself down the hill in a single seamless movement while fallers behind roll multiple times and come to a stop.