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In pictures: Are you tough enough? The Tough Guy challenge

How did you spend your weekend?

THIS YEAR’S Tough Guy challenge, an event billed as the “safest most dangerous taste of physical and mental endurance pain in the world” was held in Perton, England yesterday.

Thousands of people turned out for the annual event across a 13-kilometre obstacle course which involves jumping into freezing water, crawling beneath barbed wire, and running through fire.

Typically, one-third of the competitors who set out at the start of the event don’t manage to finish the course.

This year’s winner was Scottish mountain fell runner Scott Cassidy.

Here are some of this year’s contestants – and what they endured:

In pictures: Are you tough enough? The Tough Guy challenge

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A competitor runs through flames at the annual Tough Guy event. (AP Photo/Jon Super/PA Images)
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Emerging from a very muddy water obstacle. (AP Photo/Jon Super/PA Images)
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The Tough Guy event claims to be the world's most demanding one-day survival ordeal with up to one-third of the starters failing to finish in a typical year. (AP Photo/Jon Super/PA Images)
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A competitor crosses one of the obstacles on the gruelling Tough Guy course. (AP Photo/Jon Super/PA Images)
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A competitor pushes a rugby ball as he crawls under barbed wire. (AP Photo/Jon Super/PA Images)
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One of the competitors at yesterday's Tough Guy event. (AP Photo/Jon Super/PA Images)
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Competitors kick-off the event with a stint of cross-bearing at the start of the event in Perton, England. (AP Photo/Jon Super/PA Images)
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Competitors run through smoke. (AP Photo/Jon Super/PA Images)
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The event's organiser Billy Wilson who uses the pseudonym "Mr Mouse" stands at the start of the annual Tough Guy event yesterday. (AP Photo/Jon Super/PA Images)

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