Couple win wife-carrying race

A Finnish couple have won a wife-carrying race for a third year in a row.

Couple win wife-carrying race

A Finnish couple have won a wife-carrying race for a third year in a row.

Taisto Miettinen and Kristiina Haapanen have become the first pair to record three successive victories in the contest, which took place in Sonkajarvi, Finland, in its 16-year history after their latest triumph in the competition by less than a second.

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