Amendment – The race is now open to ladies who live OR WORK in Liberal. (Three months minimum)
The full list of rules is listed below.
- Open to no more than fifteen (15) women, eighteen years of age or older, with domestic duties.
- Entrants must have a minimum of three (3) months residence or employment at a Liberal or Rural Route Liberal mailing address.
- Women who are 18 and still enrolled in high school should enter the Youth Division race. Women who are unable to accept a prize of monetary value (cash or merchandise) due to eligibility requirements may only enter the International Race by permission of the Rules Committee.
- All entrants MUST wear traditional housewife attire: dress or skirt and top, an apron and headscarf.
- Sweats or other athletic attire may be worn under the skirt).
- The skillet and the pancake will be furnished by the Race Committee. Please return the skillet to a board member at the finish line or inside the Hall of Fame after the race.
- All runners must flip their pancake two (2) times, the first flip to be made before the starting signal, and the second flip after the contestant crosses the finish line; this flip is to show that she still has the pancake in the skillet.
- If the pancake is dropped at any time, the contestant may pick it up and place it back in the skillet and continue the race.
- Any assistance from spectators, or any other persons, will automatically disqualify the contestant.
- The distance of the race will be 415 yards and is to be run over an “S” shaped course.
- The International Pancake Race will start at 11:55am on Shrove Tuesday also known as Pancake Day!
- Each contestant must be at the **Faith Tabernacle Church, 514 N. Kansas Ave., no later than 11:00am on Pancake Day.
- All entrants agree to attend the Shriving Service immediately following the International Race.
- Race prizes will be given out after the service.
- Entrant agrees that in the event she is the winner of the Liberal International Pancake Day Race, she will accept no personal appearances outside of Liberal or run in any other Pancake Race for ONE YEAR subsequent to winning the Liberal International Pancake Race, without first receiving consent and sanction of the International Pancake Day of Liberal, Kansas Inc. Board of Directors.
- A woman may win the International Pancake Day race up to three times and then she must ‘retire’.
- Each entrant must sign the following agreement on her entry blank:
- It is your responsibility as a contestant in the International Pancake Race to adhere to the above stated attire requirements in order to participate in the race on International Pancake Day.
