The North American Wife Carrying Championships were held on Saturday at Sunday River and a Maine couple won. Jesse Wall and Christina Arsenault can now compete in the World Championships in Finland.

The competition has a husband carrying his wife through a 278 yard obstacle course with sand hazards, water hazards and log hurdles. The two fastest teams in the qualifying rounds compete head-to-head in the finals. The man carries the woman on his back; most competitors use the ‘Estonian carry’ where the woman wraps her legs around the man’s neck and her arms around his waist.

The winning couple wins their wife’s weight in beer, so the wife has to be light enough to carry yet heavy enough to make it worth the prize.

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