Start your engines, and should the perfect sperm win.
Last yr saw the world’s first ‘sperm race’, where two chubby cells raced along a 20cm track modelled after the feminine reproductive system.
University of Southern California student Tristan Milker, 20, won the fertility showdown in Los Angeles and bagged $10,000.
But Sperm Racing, which describes itself as a sports league, announced on Instagram yesterday that it’s hosting a ‘World Cup’.
‘We’re trying to find the healthiest man alive,’ an announcement video said.
‘The race will immortalise a nation. Your country is watching. The world is waiting.’
The video cuts to dozens of sperm speeding through a futuristic tube – with what we assume to be micron-long banner ads for the betting app PolyMarket, in fact.
The 128 athletes will probably be competing for a grand prize of $100,000. Though we’re unsure if the sperm or the person gets to maintain the cash.
The tournament’s website says: ‘Sperm racing is a science-based competitive sport.
‘Throughout the 2026 sperm racing world cup, athletes compete by representing a rustic, advancing through qualifiers, matchups, and tournament rounds which can be broadcast and shared publicly.
‘This just isn’t a lottery or a game of likelihood. Selection and advancement are based on eligibility, performance, availability, and competitive structure.’
Athletes have to be not less than 18, freed from sexually transmitted diseases and give you the option to ‘provide biological samples’ to compete.
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Organisers have yet to substantiate the date and timings of the event.
Eric Zhu, one in all the masterminds behind sperm racing, told Metro last yr that he’s all too aware of how much of a joke this sounds.
‘It’s so, so silly,’ the analytical platform Aviato founder said, ‘nevertheless it just might work.’
Despite being the tiniest cells within the human body, sperm can slither, spin and dash at speeds of 28mph all to wriggle into an egg cell.
Sperm, in fact, don’t have eyes. As a substitute, they know where to go because egg cells set free a chemical which they sniff out, called chemotaxis.
To duplicate these bodily conditions for the 0.05mm racers, the racecourse was fit with ‘chemical signals’ to idiot the spermatozoa into swimming.
Eric said that the thought for the F1 of spermatic fluid got here from discussions across the decline of male fertility.
Sperm counts have declined by half over the past 50 years for reasons researchers aren’t entirely sure about.
‘If you happen to have a look at cigarettes, 50 years ago, nobody was talking about [the negative health effects],’ Eric added.
‘When people began talking about it, people were getting healthier once they removed cigarettes. And I feel the identical with sperm.
‘Within the last 50 years, not enough people have been talking about it.’
Along with three friends, the spunky entrepreneur founded a start-up and nabbed tons of of hundreds of dollars in investments in per week.
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