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Step aside, Olympics... it's time for the wife-carrying championships! Hungarian husbands lug their spouses through muddy puddles in bizarre challenge dating back more than 1,000 years
Hungarian husbands are giving Olympic athletes a run for their money, as 29 couples in the village of Tápióbicske today participated in its fifth 'wife-carrying' race.
A group of men scrambled through rugged terrain and muddy puddles whilst they lugged their partners on their backs, in an attempt to be the first to cross the finish line.
But the strange sport's prize is even stranger, as the winning team is paid in beer - enough to match the wife's weight!
The rules of the race call for the husbands to carry their wives through an obstacle course in the shortest amount of time possible.
The length of the racetrack is approximately 260 metres and has two dry obstacle courses as well as a moat, which is about one meter deep.
Videos from today's race show husbands crossing a muddy ditch with their wives clinging onto their backs, as onlookers cheer on the competitors.
A group of men today scrambled through rugged terrain and muddy puddles whilst they lugged their partners on their backs, in an attempt to be the first to cross the finish line
And while the first year had a small turn-out, with just 12 people participating, the race's popularity has grown over the years
Videos and pictures from today's race show husbands crossing a muddy ditch with their wives clinging onto their backs, as onlookers cheer on the competitors
While some couples effortlessly make it across the obstacles, others struggle, with one furious wife falling off her partner's back as he enters the ditch.
But Saturday's event was not the village southeast of Budapest's first.
In 2020, sports event organiser ExtremeRush brought the championship to Tápióbicske.
Speaking to the MailOnline, one of the main organisers at ExtremeRush, Gergo Guraly, said that the competition was started with the intention to encourage people to 'live in the moment'.
And while the first year had a small turn-out, with just 12 people participating in 2020, the race's popularity has grown over the years.
Guraly also said that the event has now become a 'serious competition, where even tenths of seconds matter'.
Among the race's participants were the wife-carrying world champions Kirkliauskas Vytautas and Neringa Kirkliauskiene from Lithuania, who also came first in today's competition.
Although a new tradition in Hungary, wife-carrying races have been held in other countries, and are mainly popular in Finland and Estonia.
The origins of the sport are unclear, but ExtremerRush said the practice dates back 11 centuries.
Participants compete in a wife-carrying championship in Tapiobicske, Hungary, August 10, 2024
Couples race through water ditches in Hungary's wife-carrying competition
In 2020, sports event organiser ExtremeRush brought the championship to Tápióbicske
Although a new tradition in Hung ary, wife-carrying races have been held in other countries, and are mainly popular in Finland and Estonia
The winning team is paid in beer - enough to match the wife's weight!
Some believe that it started in 895AD when conquerors who rampaged through the Carpathian Basin with their wives strapped to their backs.
Meanwhile, others believe it originated in Finland in the late 1800s by a thug named Herkko Rosvo-Ronkainen, who was known to go around with his gang of thieves ransacking villages.
It is believed that the sport stemmed from Rosvo-Ronkainen and his crew abducting women from the villages they attacked, running away with them on their backs. Other theories suggest that Rosvo-Ronkainen trained his thieves to be 'faster and stronger' by carrying big, heavy sacks, from which this sport evolved.
While the race is often lighthearted, competitors take it very seriously, just like any other sport, and there is even a section for it in the Guinness Book of Records.
As it stands, record breakers for the sport are Ross and Nicole McCurdy from the US, who completed the race in under 20 seconds in Silverdale, Washington, USA, on 23 July 2020.
The Wife Carrying World Championships have been held annually in Sonkajärvi, Finland, since 1992.
While the sport is often lighthearted, competitors take it very seriously, just like any other sport, and there is even a section for it in the Guinness Book of Records
This is Tapiobicske fifth wife-carrying event
The Wife Carrying World Championships have been held annually in Sonkajärvi, Finland, since 1992
Participants compete in a wife-carrying championship in Tapiobicske, Hungary on Saturday