Lucy Wood
Six-Time World Stone Skimming Champion
Lucy Wood is the six-time Women’s World Stone Skimming Champion, having achieved her record-breaking number of wins between 2012 and 2025, along placing top 3 in ten of the last twelve years and an international win at the European Championships. She is officially recognised in the Guinness World Records.
She lives in Sheffield and London. In Sheffield, she often skims in the nearby Peak District, and in London she can be found skimming stones across the Thames.
She has featured widely across the media including print, radio, film and TV coverage. She has also presented at film festivals, having featured in the excellent documentary ‘Sink or Swim’ from Melt the Fly films, and has worked as a ‘professional stone skimmer’, where TV productions have needed someone to skim a stone well consistently.
She loves the sport, loves its connection with nature, and loves in particular that it’s open to anyone and everyone. Though she thoroughly loves it, she also recognises its niche nature – “It’s a really useless life skill, but I seem to have it.” – You can contact Lucy at tolucy@gmail.com
Selected Media Coverage
| Outlet | Region | Title | Link |
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| Guinness World Records | International | Most wins of the Women’s World Stone Skimming Championship | View |
| BBC News | UK | Slate expectations for world’s best female stone skimmer | View |
| The Times | UK | Stone skimming championship rocked by cheating scandal Competitors at the Easdale Island contest in the Inner Hebrides were disqualified after it emerged they had smoothed their stones to gain an unfair advantage | View |
| Metro | UK | I’ve won the world stone skimming championships five times | View |
| The Guardian | UK | ‘It seems so simple’: can I cut it at the World Stone Skimming Championships? I came with lofty ambitions. But I soon find out what I’m up against in this fiercely competitive sport | View |
| ITV News | UK | Cheating scandal rocks stone skimming championship | View |
| The Scottish Mail on Sunday | UK | View | |
| The National (Scotland) | UK | Cheating scandal at Scottish island’s World Stone Skimming Championships | View |
| The New York Times | USA | A Bucolic Stone-Skimming Contest in Scotland Is Infiltrated by Cheaters “I did see some stones that looked a little too perfect,” said the winner of the Stone Skimming World Championships. The offending contestants were disqualified. | View |
| Irish Independent | Ireland | ‘I got calls from concerned competitors’: Stone-skimming contest rocked by cheating scandal | View |
| The Irish Times | Ireland | Suspiciously circular’: World Stone Skimming Championships the latest niche sport in cheating scandal The World Stone Skimming Championships were thrown into disarray by suspicions of doctored stones | View |
| The World Stone Skimming Championships | UK | The History, Legends & Enduring Appeal of Stone Skimming’s Premier Event | View |
| UPI | USA | Cheating scandal nearly sinks World Stone Skimming Championships | View |
| Vice | USA | World Stone Skimming Championship Rocked by Cheating Scandal A handful of competitors showed up to the World Stone Skimming Championships with suspiciously polished rocks. | View |
| Atlas Obscura | USA | Stone Skimming Is a World Champion Sport—And a Model for Spaceships What to know if you want to skip a rock over 200 feet. Or fly to space. | View |
| Mental Floss | USA | How a Cheating Scandal Shook the World Stone Skimming Championships Suspicious stones marred the latest installment. | View |
| Euronews | International | World stone skimming championships take place in ScotlandVideo | View |
Radio
| Outlet | Region | Title | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Jon Richardson Show | UK | Episode Description: This morning on the Spiteful Little Goblin Man Show (Jon Richardson Show) Jon earns accolades in the form of an honourary rap doctorate and the reverse park of the year award, Jons hamster Leaf gets a taste of Tabasco and Sadness and the team speak to a 6th time world champion Golden Skimmer. | View |
| BBC sounds | UK | Meet Sheffield’s Stone Skimming World Champion | View |
| BBC Radio 2 | UK | OJ Borg – June 2020 | View |
| BBC Radio 2 | UK | OJ Borg – Dec 2020 | View |
| BBC Radio 4 – Saturday Live | UK | Rev Richard ColesAasmah Mir | |
| BBC Radio 4 – The World at One | UK | ||
| BBC Children in Need & Radio Sheffield | UK | Paulette and Toby Foster |
Film & TV
| Outlet | Region | Title | Link |
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| The One Show | UK | Ryan Hand – World Stone Skimming Championships – BBC The One Show | View |
| ITV News at Ten | UK | ||
| Eastenders | UK | Nigel Bates Death Storyline Episode 29 April 2026 EastEnders’ Paul Bradley on Nigel Bates’ moving final dementia storyline scenes – “For such a heartbreaking subject matter, it’s a very beautiful ending” | View https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/mediapacks/eastenders-paul-bradley-nigel-bates-final-scenes-dementia-storyline |
| Sink of Skim BBC Scotland Melt the Fly Productions | UK | The World Stone Skimming Championship is held on the tiny Scottish island of Easdale every year. Two obsessed skimmers show us what it takes to become the world’s best. https://www.meltthefly.com/ | View |