The top four winning pumpkins being exhibited at the festival
A giant pumpkin from Iowa is the prize of the patch after squashing the competition in a heavyweight championship on California's coast.
The gigantic gourd tipped the scales at 752 kg to win the 36th annual World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off in Half Moon Bay on Monday.
The pumpkin set a new weight record for California. Contest spokesman Tim Beeman says the old state record was 696 kg.
At US$6 (RM20) a 0.45kg, Des Moines grower Don Young will take home a US$9,948 (RM33,870) prize.
He says he didn't expect to win and is very happy.
Pumpkin man Don Young (right) did'nt expect to win
The sizable squash falls short of the world record apparently set last week at an Ohio weigh-off by one registering 782kg.
Young's winning gourd will be shown off this weekend at the Half Moon Bay pumpkin festival.
Christy Harp showing off her world-record pumpkin
On Saturday, Jackson Township resident Christy Harp won a world-record 782.4kg Atlantic giant pumpkin.
She was the first prize winner at the Ohio Valley Giant Pumpkin Growers annual weigh-off in Canfield, Ohio.
-AP
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