{"id":2411,"date":"2009-07-08T06:59:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-08T13:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=2411"},"modified":"2009-07-08T06:59:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-08T13:59:00","slug":"afp-finland-ends-estonias-reign-in-wife-carrying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/08\/afp-finland-ends-estonias-reign-in-wife-carrying\/","title":{"rendered":"AFP: Finland ends Estonia&#8217;s reign in wife-carrying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/d.yimg.com\/a\/p\/afp\/20090706\/capt.photo_1246736727494-1-0.jpg?x=213&#038;y=320&#038;xc=1&#038;yc=1&#038;wc=273&#038;hc=410&#038;q=85&#038;sig=oxf3QkI5_pG.VeRUqtd2iw--\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"20\" hspace=\"20\"\/><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20090704\/od_afp\/entertainmentfinlandoffbeat\">AFP:  Sat Jul 4, 3:46 pm ET<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>HELSINKI (AFP) \u2013 Finland put an end to Estonia&#8217;s 11-year reign and took gold and bronze on Saturday at the annual Wife-Carrying World Championships held in Sonkajaervi, central Finland, organisers said.<\/p>\n<p>Taisto Miettinen raced through a 250-metre (273-yard) course with two hurdles and a pool in 62 seconds, carrying Kristiina Haapanen on his back. The winners beat Estonia&#8217;s Alar Voogla and Kristi Viltrop by 0.1 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Miettinen has been attending the competition for a decade now and said he was pleased to finally win.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A couple of times I have lost by 0.1 seconds and I have stumbled. Our win tastes now really good,&#8221; Miettinen said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Although Estonia&#8217;s long chain of wins in wife-carrying was brought to an end, Voogla said he was happy with silver and added the cool and cloudy weather had an impact on their race.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was not our day, in the cool weather it was slightly difficult and the run did not go as planned,&#8221; he noted.<\/p>\n<p>Finns Heikki Hannukainen and Heini Rauhamaa came in third and were some six seconds slower than the victors.<\/p>\n<p>Sonkajaervi village, located some 490 kilometres (302 miles) north of Helsinki, has in the past 14 years made its entertaining wife-carrying competition known around the world and this year competitors came from eight countries including Australia, Ireland and Czech Republic.<\/p>\n<p>The race was inspired by the legend of a local thug, Herkko Rosvo-Ronkainen, who lived in a forest and is said to have snatched food and sometimes ladies from villages in the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFP: Sat Jul 4, 3:46 pm ET: HELSINKI (AFP) \u2013 Finland put an end to Estonia&#8217;s 11-year reign and took gold and bronze on Saturday at the annual Wife-Carrying World Championships held in Sonkajaervi, central Finland, organisers said. Taisto Miettinen raced through a 250-metre (273-yard) course with two hurdles and a pool in 62 seconds, carrying Kristiina Haapanen on his back. The winners beat Estonia&#8217;s Alar Voogla and Kristi Viltrop by 0.1 seconds. Miettinen has been attending the competition for&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[57,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-estonia","category-finland","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-CT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}