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LEGO World Cup 1996 finals took place in Billund, Denmark, August 31
First places to four boys from
Lithuania, Holland, Korea and Poland
53 Children between 4 and 16 years from 22 countries met today at LEGO Center for the finals in LEGO building - the so-called "LEGO World Cup", which has been held locally and nationally in 1995/1996 with close to 600,000 participants.
The four winners!
- yellow group (3-5 years):
Mantas Jonusis, 5 years, Lithuania
Name of model: "A boy and a bicycle"- red group (6-9 years):
Joost Zeegers, 9 years, Holland
Name of model: "Robot"- blue group (10-14 years):
Jung Min Hwang, 13 years, Korea
Name of model: "Turtle ship of the future"- black group (8-16 years):
Jacek Pawalec, 12 years, Poland
Name of model: "Robot and helicoper"In each age group a no. 2 and no. 3 - from Austria, Taiwan, the Philipines, Latvia, Korea, Estonia and Italy - were also chosen while the "rest" were no. 4.
The competition
In the finals the children, seven girls and 46 boys, who are consequently national building champions - were divided into four groups: the youngest group with five children from 3-5 years of age, the middle group with 17 children from 6-9 years, the oldest group with 21 children from 10-14 years - and a special technical group with 11 children from 8-16 years. The children (with their parents) came from Austria - Belgium/Luxembourg - Croatia - Czech Republic - Estonia - Finland - Germany - Holland - Italy - Korea - Latvia - Lithuania - The Philipines - Poland - Russia - Slovakia - Sweden - Switzerland - Taiwan - Thailand - Ukraine - and Uzbekistan.The children were given between 1 1/2 - 2 1/4 hours to build exactly what they wanted. The youngest were each given 803 DUPLO and LEGO SYSTEM elements, the 6-9 years old participants got 889 LEGO SYSTEM elements, while the 10-14 years old could build with 764 LEGO SYSTEM elements, one motor and one battery box. In the technical group the children had 1,512 LEGO SYSTEM and TECHNIC elements, one motor and one battery box at their disposal.
When the building had been finished the 53 creations were judged by a jury of seven persons with Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen, president, LEGO A/S, at the head. The jury worked for several hours - prizes and diplomas were presented to the winners at 18:00 in LEGO Center.
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