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Estonia is threatening to become the competitive wife-carrying capital of the world, as Estonian Madis Uusorg raced across the finish (Finnish?) line in Sonkajarvi, Finland with wife Inga Clausen's clinging to his back for the gold in the 12th annual World Wife-Carrying Competition in Sonkajarvi, Finland.

If you've never seen wife-carrying in action, here's what it looks like.

The competitors race around an obstacle course with their wife draped across their backs one way or another, with the most popular method being the neck-wrap method, where the wives lock their legs around their husbands' necks like some sort of odd flesh bolo tie and double the grip by then holding their husbands' waist. If this all sounds slightly kinky, rememeber that these are Scandinavians, and that they have long winters during which to drink and think up odd forms of entertainment.

This year's winner Madis Uusorg is the brother of Margo Uusorg, who along with his living potato sack/spouse won the competition five times before half-retiring. This year, per a bet he made last year, Margo ran with "rather heavily built" Irish woman Julia Galvin around his neck. The pair finished 29th.

We're sure that's exactly what Ms. Galvin always wanted to be remembered as in a Google Search thanks to a single Associated Press article: "rather heavily built."