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Have wife will carry: Couples vie in wife-carrying contest

FILE - In this Oct. 8, 2016 file photo, Jaime Devine is carried by her husband, Thomas Devine, of Boston, Mass., during the North American Wife Carrying Championship at the Sunday River Ski Resort in Newry, Maine. Dozens of participants are vying for cash and beer in the North American Wife Carrying Championship. More than 60 couples are registered, and more are on a waiting list, for the annual event Saturday, Oct. 7, 2017 at the Sunday River in Maine.(AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)
Original Publication Date October 07, 2017 - 7:56 AM

NEWRY, Maine - It was a messy slog but a Virginia couple reaped the rewards of cash — and beer — in the North American Wife Carrying Championship.

Jake and Kirsten Barney, from Lexington, Virginia, finished first Saturday on an alpine course made all the more difficult because Jake was carrying his wife on his back when he trudged through water and jumped over logs.

The couple placed second last year.

The event is based on the Finland legend of "Ronkainen the Robber," whose gang pillaged villages and took the women.

These days, men usually carry women, but they don't have to be married and the couple can choose who carries whom.

The Barneys won five times Kirsten Barney's weight in cash — or $630 — and 12 cases of beer.

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