Wife-carrying is an actual competition that originated in Finland and involves male competitors racing while each carrying their wife teammate. #wifecarrying #competition #weird #wtf #funny #lol

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Forget carrying your bride over the threshold. Consider, instead, hauling her over a 278-yard obstacle course and you’ve got not just a true test of connubial commitment but also the essence of the North American Wife Carrying Championship, taking place at the Sunday River Resort in Newry, Maine, on Oct. 11.Considering the winning couple takes home the wife’s weight in beer and five times her

Ten things you should know about the sport of wife carrying.

Couples from around the world travelled to Sonkajarvi, Finland, braving jumps, water and the possibility of being dropped as they battled it out to be crowned 2015's winners.

Couples were snapped clambering over straw bales and dodging water buckets as part of the UK's 15th Wife Carrying Race hosted in Dorking, Surrey.

Meet the power 'couple' dominating the World Wife Carrying Championships - Taisto Miettinen and Kristiina Haapanen aren't married, but they do get extremely close. Miettinen and Haapanen, both natives of Finland, are the six-time and reigning champions of the World Wife Carrying Championships. The yearly competition involves men hauling a female partner — a "wife" — across a 250-meter obstacle course. The sport, called eukonkanto in Finnish, originated in the 19th century, when legend has it…

The Baltimore Sun provided a decent photo essay on the Wife Carrying World Championships that were held in Sonkajärvi, July 2013