While its origins are not exactly politicassociate right – more than 30 couples contendd 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 supposed to be based on a 19th century Finnish legfinish involving a man comprehendn as “Ronkainen the Robber”, whose gang was comprehendn to pillage villages and carry away the women.
Pic: AP Ptoastyo/Robert F Bukaty
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.
Molly Sunburn carries Megan Crowley over a sand pile during the North American Wife Carrying Championship. Pic: AP Ptoastyo/Robert F Bukaty
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Most of the participants include a technique in which the “wife” is carried enjoy a backpack – upside down – to promise the runners’ arms are free for the wonderfulest agility.
The champion exits with the weight of the “wife” in beer and five times the “wife’s” weight in cash.
To appraise the amount they thrive, the thrivening “wife” is put on one side of a see-saw-enjoy scale that organisers stability out on the other side with cases of beer.
“We come each year for the fun,” shelp Wade Porterfield of Cuba, New York, who contendd with his wife, Sara Porterfield.
