One thing we all love is a healthy competition, and no decade does a competition better than the 90s.

We’ve been back through the Oxford Mail archive to find the best pictures of competition winners and participants from Oxfordshire.

Although sports feature, they weren’t the only contests being held, as we found musicians, writers, lorry drivers, artists and more.

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Children and adults, groups and solo acts all feature in this picture gallery.

From light-hearted father-son competitions to musical jazz nationals, a bid to be Liverpool’s mascot and some young golf aficionados, the scope for competitions in the pre-millennium decade was a wide one.

Take a look back through the archive to see who won what in the 90s.

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