Feminazis and social justice warriors need not apply.
Via KRTV:
Husbands and wives (plus a few couples not hitched) gathered Sunday at the Gallatin County Fairgrounds for the first-ever Rocky Mountain Wife-Carrying Championship.
The idea to turn wife carrying into a sport was sparked in 19th century Finland, when the practice was used to steal wives and women from their villages.
The first wife carrying competitive event was held in 1992 in Finland, which is now where the World Championships are hosted. The sport has made its way across the pond to the United States and the North American Championships began in Maine in 1999.
In order to qualify for any national championship, you must win a state, provincial, or regional championship- and that’s where Sunday’s race came in to play.
The course is made up of one wet obstacle and two dry obstacles, at the Gallatin Fairgrounds, these obstacles consisted of a mud pit, median wall, and a dirt ramp.
After learning the rules, the only thing left to do was run the race. For Adam and Sunny Bacon, they didn’t even know about the event until they were signed up- fifteen minutes prior!
“Someone googled how to get over the hurdles, how to carry, so we went behind the bleachers and practiced, and I didn’t break her,” Adam Bacon said.
Beginner’s luck- they ran the fastest time the course had seen at 60 seconds and won Sunny’s weight worth of beer- which happened to be five cases of Coors Banquet.