![WATCH: Highlights From This Past Weekend’s Wife Carrying Competition At Sunday River [VIDEOS]](http://townsquare.media/site/543/files/2017/10/Wife1.jpg?w=980&q=75)
WATCH: Highlights From This Past Weekend’s Wife Carrying Competition At Sunday River [VIDEOS]
The North American Wife Carrying Championship took place this past Saturday in Newry, and couples gave it all for the grand prize of $, and of course beer!
Jake and Kirsten Barney of Lexington, Virginia, picked up the grand prize of twelve cases of beer and money equaling five times Kirsten's weight, $630. The very skilled and now very dirty couple will move along to the world championship in Finland.
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