Dorking – American National, Jonathan Schwochert and his French-born wife Charlotte Xiong, have won the 9th annual UK’s wife-carrying championship in Dorking, England.
The race is believed to date back more than 12 century to medieval times when scores of Viking marauders pillaged the north-east coast of England.
The couples have to run a 380-metre course littered with hay bales to jump over, and a `splash zone’ where competitors get drenched in water.
The winners get to take home a barrel of ale for all their efforts.
It has a minimum of 50kg weight rule for the person being carried through the race. Women can also get to carry their husbands if they choose to; same sex couples are also welcome at the race.
This year, a new UK record was set by American Jonathan Schwochert and his French-born wife Charlotte Xiong, who ran the course in 1 minute and 40 seconds.
In a report contained in an interview of Schwochert by press men after the race, he said; “we do a bit of training’’.
“This year, we only ran it once but I was doing runs with a weighted backpack and it got a bit tough, chaffing up my back so I had to take a break’’.
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