Canadian couple wins wife carrying event
NEWRY, Maine -- A Canadian couple outran, out-hurdled and out-waded fourteen other couples Saturday to become the new North American Wife Carrying champions.
Brandon Ronson and Jenny Aspden of Tillsonburg, Ontario completed the course at Sunday River ski resort in Newry in 1 minute, 30.9 seconds.
The second place team was Peter and Amber Small of Bangor, who came in about four seconds behind the winners.
As the winners, Ronson and Aspden took home Aspden's weight in Red Hook beer and five times her weight in cash.
At 130 pounds, that meant six cases of beer and 650-dollars.
But besides not being married -- the rules state that participants don't have to be -- the winners, being the teenagers that they are, aren't even old enough to drink.
Second-place winners also got the wife's weight in beer. For Amber Small, that amounted to 4 cases of beer and a case of Balance Bars.
Ronson and Aspden hope to make it to the World Championships in Finland.
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