{"id":220751,"date":"2026-08-15T22:58:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T22:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/results-from-the-world-pipe-band-championship-2026-bagpipe-news\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T22:58:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T22:58:14","slug":"results-from-the-world-pipe-band-championship-2026-bagpipe-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/results-from-the-world-pipe-band-championship-2026-bagpipe-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Results from the World Pipe Band Championship 2026 &#8211; Bagpipe News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Simon Fraser University Pipe Band from Vancouver, led by Pipe Major Alan Bevan, became Grade 1 World Champions today, August 15, 2026.<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>This was the first time in 17 years they have won the <a href=\"https:\/\/bagpipe.news\/2020\/01\/02\/pipe-band-retro-pictorial-the-worlds-2009\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">G1 Worlds <\/a><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/bagpipe.news\/2020\/01\/02\/pipe-band-retro-pictorial-the-worlds-2009\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>title since 2009<\/strong><\/a>, <strong>and the first Worlds title under Alan Bevan&#8217;s leadership.<\/strong><br \/>Over the two days SFU won three of the four events, losing the Friday MSR with a seventh place.<br \/>St Laurence O&#8217;Toole won the Overall Drumming and the Drumming MSR with the Drumming Medley won by Inveraray &amp; District. The Overall MSR was won by Inveraray and the Overall Medley won by Simon Fraser University.<br \/>The Champion of Champions for 2026 is Field Marshal Montgomery Pipe Band, and who also scoop the Champions of Champions for Drumming.<\/p>\n<p>Bagpiping features and news from around the international piping community.<br \/>Contact us: <a href=\"mailto:news@bagpipe.news\">news@bagpipe.news<\/a><br \/>&copy; Bagpipe News &#8211; The National Piping Centre<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiiwFBVV95cUxPdFBDZlcwNTZpdkYzZm01cEdFQW5INHl0cGMxbWFiRUhoUUR5blo1a0d4YmtNTE9IdnlPZDhwa2w4WVhmdC1uc2R6U29jN1Z4MldLMnZhaF9xbmZPUHoxYnc5QnJ5MlRjV0FTR2doRmFScHJoY296Tk9VTEZXT1ZYVEpmVWdrX0J6cldn?oc=5\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simon Fraser University Pipe Band from Vancouver, led by Pipe Major Alan Bevan, became Grade 1 World Champions today, August 15, 2026.\u00a0This was the first time in 17 years they have won the G1 Worlds title since 2009, and the first Worlds title under Alan Bevan&#8217;s leadership.Over the two days SFU won three of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":220752,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}