Organisers at Newby Hall, which is a Grade I-listed building, say they usually get around 500 people turn up to take part in the annual contest.
Last year’s event was won by returning champion Aiden Morgan, 23, from Ohio in the US.
He said: “I went to York for graduate school initially. I was studying at the medieval studies department at the University of York. I got an email saying they were taking a postgrad trip to Newby Hall and that’s how I stumbled upon it.”
Aiden, who is a fan of Major League Baseball side the Cleveland Guardians, says it’s his sporting upbringing which helped him win the competition.
“It’s like a dream, the skills that you’ve cultivated throughout your youth, the throwing mechanics, I have all of that down. I have always had a pretty good arm. So I saw a throwing competition and was like ‘sign me up’.”
