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Lithuanian couple wins international wife-carrying championship
UPI ^ | July 8, 2019 | Ed Adamczyk

Posted on 07/08/2019 3:45:51 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement

July 8 (UPI) -- Vytatutas Kirkliauskas, with his wife Neringa, traversed a muddy course and won the annual wife-carrying championships in Finland on Saturday.

It was the second consecutive victory for the Lithuanian couple in the international event, held for the 31st time in Sonkajarvi, Finland. They ran an 830-foot obstacle course, walking in mud and crossing waist-high water and wooden barriers in one minute and 6.72 seconds. Their finish was only one second better than the effort of six-time winner Taisto Miettinen and new partner Katja Kovanen, but enough to win the prize of the wife's weight in beer.

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Do they a wife tossing contest, too?


21 posted on 07/08/2019 8:52:50 PM PDT by aquila48
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