At the Wife Carrying World Championships in Finland, first prize is the wife’s weight in beer.
The first modern-day wife-carrying event was held in Finland in 1992 and foreign contestants were admitted in 1995.
If the designated ‘wife’ is lighter, she must carry a weighted rucksack, given to her by officials. For this great feat of strength, the world champions win the equivalent of the wife’s weight in beer, a bag full of wife-carrying merchandise and an official logo statue.