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Oklahoma’s heaviest pumpkin on the list weighed in at about 844 pounds. The rest of the world had quite a few large pumpkins too, the heaviest pumpkin in the United Kingdom came in at 2,656 lbs.

The world record for heaviest pumpkin was grown in Belgium in 2016 and weighed 2,624 pounds. The heaviest pumpkin grown in the US was grown by a New Hampshire man last year. It weighed 2,528 pounds.

The heaviest weighs 1,537 lbs., and another is 1,476 lbs. The latter was entered into the world championship pumpkin weigh-off in Half Moon Bay earlier this month.

The Guinness World Records website lists the world�s heaviest pumpkin as weighing 2,624 lbs.. It was grown by a Belgium man in 2016. Story Tags National News Advertisement ...

Eric Jones ’97 (right) poses with Travis Gienger with the pumpkin Jones carved, earning him a spot in the Guinness Book of World records for largest and heaviest jack-o’-lantern. Gienger, a Minnesota ...

A weight class of its own The Fall Festival’s biggest event is the World Pumpkin Weigh-Off, a competition to see which grower can bring the heaviest pumpkin.

Henry Bartimus of DeWitt stands next to his 1,673-pound pumpkin, the largest grown in the state in 2020. He brought it to Gail's Pumpkin Patch in rural Beason on Sunday.