North American Wife Carrying Champ Wins Bounty of Beer and Money

October 12th, 2009

By: Ben

Good sport here for big guys with small wives: Wife Carrying.

A Maine man carried his 97-pound wife over a muddy water hole, two logs and other obstacles in less than a minute to win the 10th annual North American Wife Carrying Championship.

Dave and Lacey Castro, of Lewiston, were among 41 entries from 11 states in Saturday’s 278-yard run at the Sunday River ski resort in Newry. Their time was 54.45 seconds.

“North American,” see. This has “Canada” written all over it. Still, it’s worth it to work out those wife carrying muscles and perfect your most ergonomically salutary wife carrying position, because the prizes are legit. Also, some video, after the jump.

Next, after winning her weight in beer and five times her weight in cash ($485): the world finals, in Finland, next July.

This is definitely the sort of hobby that could only have developed in cold lands where the sun shines infrequently and men wore fur pelts until well into the 20th century.