World Beard and Moustache Championships

Another top contender is Jürgen Burkhardt (image left), a 48-year-old photographer from Leinfelden, near Stuttgart, who sports a curled mustache/muttonchop combo about the size of a boomerang.

Left unstyled, Burkhardt’s mustache has a wingspan that stretches five feet (one and a half meters) from tip to tip.

The German washes his mustache three times before starting his 30-minute daily styling regime. Needless to say, hairspray factors heavily into its maintenance.

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