Finland holds the title of world championship wife-carrying

Towards the front of 6500 spectators, keep Taisto Metinan Hapanin and Christina, the world title for the wife-carrying, where organizers announced the annual competition held in Suncaiarfa in central Finland, won the Finnish championship.

The couple adopted the technology, "Estonian" (with wife's head down on the back of the husband) to go a distance of 352.50 meters, a race during which cross the mind towards a water depth of a meter, one minute and 73 hundred of a second. The progress of 79 on the second hundred of the two big rivals Estonians propelled Fogla Viltrob with Christie and grabbed a couple of Atawanaan bronze medal.


This racing inspired by the legend of a local thief named Herko Rosfo - Ronkainen lived in the forest end of the nineteenth century and was stealing food from the towns of the region, women sometimes.

The winner, a lawyer of 46 years participating in the race 13 years ago for "Agence France Presse": "This race was more difficult than previous years because the inhibitor of water was deeper, because the weather was hot with more than 30 degrees Celsius."

He stressed that the secret of his success is that it trains "are strictly more throughout the year", using a custom ski shoes to strengthen the muscles of the legs. The first time that the couple win the trophy for three consecutive years. Participated this year, 47 bilateral came from ten countries including the United States, Russia and Sonkariyarfa face up in a town 490 kilometers northeast of Helsinki will host the world championship wife-carrying for 16 years.