Tired of football, basketball or other boring sports? Well, here’s real sports news. Every year, an exciting sport event popularly known as Wife Carrying Championship takes place in Maine. You’ll be surprised to know what men get if they win the contest. Men earn their wife’s weight in beer plus five times the partner’s weight in cash and a chance to compete in the World Championships in Finland. Sounds amazing!
It’s a 250-meter track race in which men lug women weighing a minimum of 108-lbs on their backs. Contestants can use any carrying method, whether it’s the fireman’s carry, the piggy-back carry or some other lesser-known method. The only rule is you can’t drop your wife. For every time she hits the ground you lose five points. To be a part of the race, you need not be related but teams need to be made up of one man and one woman, both over the age of 21.
Run in heats with two teams racing together. Tackling a pool and several hurdles, team with the fastest times and the least number of drops qualify for the championship round with the winner of that round claiming the North American Wife Carrying Champion title.
The eighth Wife Carrying contest was held on October 6, 2007 near the Sunday River Ski Resort. Negotiating two 3-foot high wooden hurdles and a 10-meter-long pit of muddy, waist-deep water, a Boston couple claimed victory by a margin of only a third of a second. Just check out the images in the gallery pinned below to know how much fun this contest is! Believe me it’s entirely worth it to see the pictures.
Wife Carrying Contest Picture Gallery
