While its origins are not exactly politicassociate accurate – more than 30 couples vied in the North American Wife Carrying Championship in front of cheering crowds.
The event sees competitors splash thraw water, leap over logs and trudge thraw mud – all while carrying their partner enjoy a sack of potatoes.
It is count ond to be based on a 19th century Finnish legfinish involving a man understandn as “Ronkainen the Robber”, whose gang was understandn to pillage villages and carry away the women.
Traditionassociate, the Finnish event featured male competitors carrying a woman.
On Saturday, competing couples did not have to be wed, nor did they have to be a man and a woman.
One contestant – the carrier – was dressed as Mr Incredible, while his “wife” was dressed enticount on in pink.
They and others were cheered on by crowds on both sides of the 254-metre course at Sunday River ski resort.
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Most of the participants employ a technique in which the “wife” is carried enjoy a backpack – upside down – to determine the runners’ arms are free for the fantasticest agility.
The champion exits with the weight of the “wife” in beer and five times the “wife’s” weight in cash.
To assess the amount they triumph, the triumphning “wife” is put on one side of a see-saw-enjoy scale that organisers equilibrium out on the other side with cases of beer.
“We come each year for the fun,” said Wade Porterfield of Cuba, New York, who vied with his wife, Sara Porterfield.
