TAPIOBICSKE, Hungary, Aug 7 (Reuters) – Some 40 Hungarian husbands, with their wives on their backs, clambered over tough terrain on Saturday within the nation’s second wife-carrying contest.
A earlier race in October attracted solely a dozen {couples}.
“We’ve got simply emerged from a troublesome interval as a result of coronavirus and we have to go and have enjoyable within the open air,” Gergely Guraly, who organised the race, informed Reuters.
Guraly started preparations in January for the competition, which is alleged to have origins courting again to the Viking age.
Contributors compete in a wife-carrying championship in Tapiobicske, Hungary, August 7, 2021. REUTERS/Marton Monus
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In fashionable instances, the custom is especially established in Finland, the place it has taken place for the reason that Nineties.
Estonian races have lent their identify to the Estonian type of wife-carrying, with the spouse the wrong way up and her toes over her husband’s shoulders, somewhat than a traditional piggyback.
Mark Mazacs and his spouse Anett selected the piggyback method.
“We devised a technique, determining the easiest way of carrying my spouse on my again,” Mark Mazacs stated.
Reporting by Krisztina Fenyo; writing by Krisztina Than; modifying by Barbara Lewis
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