Couples Compete In Wife-Carrying Championship

A Lithuanian couple have won the World Wife-Carrying Championship for a second time in a row. Each year, the championship draws thousands of visitors to the Finnish town of Sonkajarvi. Vytautas Kirkliauskas and his wife Neringa Kirkliauskiene claimed the first place prize – consisting of the wife’s weight in beer. It is the 24th year the competition has been held.