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First Sunday of the Iowa State Fair smashes attendance record
By Natasha Keicher,
23 hours agoDES MOINES, Iowa -- A new Iowa State Fair attendance record was set on Sunday.
The fair said that Sunday was the largest-attended first Sunday in the fair's history, with 123,140 visitors. The previous daily attendance record was set in 2024 with 115,048 visitors.
Saturday's attendance was roughly 3,600 shy of breaking the daily attendance record for the first Saturday of the fair also set in 2024. That year there were 128,732 attendees.
That's not the only record that's been broken so far. Lainey Wilson's Sunday Grandstand performance was the largest since its 2018 renovation. Fair officials said 17,360 fans showed up.
A record was broken on the first day of the fair as well. Big Bad Joe, a Suffolk ram, not only won first place in the Biggest Ram Title, weighing in at 568 lbs., but also broke the record for the heaviest ram at the fair, set in 2014.
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