On July 8, 2007 Estonia continued their strong-hold dominance of the greatest international competition–the wife carrying competition! This is the tenth year in a row an Estonian has won the competition. I am so proud to have Estonian blood flowing through my Estonian veins!
I need to send the Uusorg brothers a gift.
Pictured above is Estonia’s Madis Uusorg and his wife Inga Klauso winning the wife carrying World Championships in Finland, 2007.
Here is a snapshot of PURE ESTONIAN DOMINANCE!
* 2007 – Madis Uusorg (Estonia) and Inga Klauso (Estonia). time 61.7 seconds
* 2006 – Margo Uusorg (Estonia) and Sandra Kullas (Estonia) time 56.9 seconds (World record)
* 2005 – Margo Uusorg (Estonia) and Egle Soll (Estonia).
* 2004 – Madis Uusorg (Estonia) and Inga Klauso (Estonia) time 65.3 seconds.
* 2003 – Margo Uusorg (Estonia) and Egle Soll (Estonia) time 60.7 seconds.
* 2002 – Meelis Tammre (Estonia) and Anne Zillberberg (Estonia) time 63.8 seconds.
* 2001 – Margo Uusorg (Estonia) and Birgit Ullrich (Estonia) time 55.6 seconds.
* 2000 – Margo Uusorg (Estonia) and Birgit Ullrich (Estonia) time 55.5 seconds.
* 1999 – Imre Ambos (Estonia) and Annela Ojaste (Estonia) time 64.5 seconds.
* 1998 – Imre Ambos (Estonia) and Annela Ojaste (Estonia) time 69.2 seconds.
* 1997 – Jouni Jussila (Finland) and Tiina Jussila (Finland) time 65 seconds.
(There are more photos from these years in a previous blog post).
One of these years I’m going to Finland to participate in this competition. I would LOVE to win, but if I don’t, I will be more than happy to shake the hand of my Estonian brother who does win.
that has got to be the weirdest race i have ever heard of!! where do you FIND this stuff, Matt?
Weirdest race! yes! Wouldn’t it be fun participate in this race? But then again, I don’t know how much fun it is for the woman. Hanging on for dear life while the man runs through a pit of water! I can see why Inga is wearing a bike helmet! Way to go Inga! Look at the pure focus on her face! I’m sure there are other races that are just as weird. But the fact this one is taken so seriously around the world makes this indubitably the weirdest race. At some point I want to compile a list of all the World and National Championship thingys. Like the Scrabble World Championship, Footbag Championship, Human Tetris Championship. There should be a site that alerts you whenever there is something cool in your area. (oh speaking of weird stuff in chicago, there is an archive of the WTTW’s Wild Chicago links and events). I don’t think the wife-carrying competition will be coming to chicago. The closest in the USA is the North American Wife-Carrying Competition in Maine. To answer your question, I find a bunch of my stuff over at: http://www.popurls.com. But this post in particular came about when I was on the ESPN website reading something aobut the Cubs.