A Lithuanian couple won the World Wife-Carrying Championship for a second time i...
Vytautas Kirkliauskas of Lithuania carries his wife Neringa Kirkliauskiene as they compete during the Wife Carrying World Championships in Sonkajarvi, Finland, July 6, 2019. Lehtikuva / Timo Hartikainen via REUTERS
Each year, the championship draws thousands of visitors to the town of only about 4,000 inhabitants in central Finland. Saturday’s competition was the 24th year it has been held. Among the two dozen contesting couples, Vytautas Kirkliauskas and his wife Neringa Kirkliauskiene came out on top for a second straight year, completing a 253.5 meter obstacle course featuring a water trap in 1 minute and 6 seconds.
“I was looking at the watch and I thought I’m not going to make it, but we did it,” Kirkliauskas said.
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