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Wife carrying champs held in Finland

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The world wife-carrying champs have been held in Finland.

As expected defending champions Vytautas Kirkliauskas and his wife, Neringa Kirlliauskiene, were too good for the opposition.

Wife-carrying is a race between couples held over a challenging 832-foot obstacle course in Sonkajarvi, Finland.

Couples must wade through waist-high water, jump over timber in the quickest time.

The winning couple completed the race in a little less than 67 seconds to best six-time Finnish champs, Taisto Miettinen and his new partner Katja Kovanen, by a razor-thin one-tenth of a second.

The competition was fierce, in which couples from more than a dozen countries raced for glory.

Rules of the race are minimal, but the woman must be at least 17 years of age and weigh a minimum of 49kg. Couples need not be married.

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