The bridge, which Latvian university students have made from spaghetti, can withstand 476 kg.  

Riga Technical University (RTU) students’ parliament academic department head Sandis Eglītis told about the aforesaid to BNS news agency.

The RTU Faculty of Power and Electrical Engineering, for the sixth consecutive year, holds a competition of making bridges from spaghetti. 

This year one hundred representatives from eighteen educational institutions took part in this event, whose objective is to build the strongest bridge out of macaroni and glue.     

First place went to the Team JAM, with 476.14 kg.

Latvia’s best “bridge builders” will represent the country at the RECCS 2015 world spaghetti bridge construction championship, which Hungary will host on May 22.