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Summary A Finnish couple stood first in North American Wife Carrying Championship at River ski resort.
Taisto Miettinen and Kristina Haapanen traveled from Helsinki, Finland – where they won the World Wife Carrying Championship – for Saturdays contest.The Sun Journal (bit.ly/Q30QWq) reports that the couple finished with a time of 52.58 seconds on a course that includes hurdles, sand traps and a water hole.The winners receive the womans weight in beer and five times her weight in cash.For Miettinen and Haapanen, that meant a check for $530. They shared their beer winnings with the second- and third- place finishers – Jesse Wall and Christine Arsenault of South Paris and David and Lacey Castro of Lewiston.
