{"id":2378,"date":"2010-06-18T12:26:52","date_gmt":"2010-06-18T11:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.weddingdates.ie\/blog\/?p=2378"},"modified":"2024-04-25T17:43:59","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T16:43:59","slug":"getting-carried-away-in-finland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/getting-carried-away-in-finland\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Carried Away in Finland!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/p>\n

16 June, 2010<\/div>\n
CONTACT:<\/div>\n
Ciara Crossan<\/div>\n
WeddingDates.ie<\/div>\n
T: 021-4928993<\/div>\n
M: 087-9577733<\/div>\n
Email: ciara@weddingdates.ie<\/div>\n
GETTING CARRIED AWAY IN FINLAND!<\/strong><\/div>\n
Irish Team travels to Wife Carrying World Championships<\/div>\n
Cork, Ireland \u2013 \u00a0Teams from around the world are travelling to Finland next week to represent their countries in one of the most unusual competitions in the land known as Wife Carrying. \u00a0 A small town in Finland, called Sonkaj\u00e4rvi is the home of the competition and this will be its 15th year.<\/div>\n
After scooping 3rd place in the Relay Event and \u201cMost Entertaining Couple\u201d in the main race last year, Ciara Crossan and James Kennedy from Cork and Dublin respectively are heading back to Finland to defend their titles.<\/div>\n
\u201cWe had such great fun in Finland last year at the Wife Carrying World Championships, we just had to go back this year\u201d<\/em> said Crossan, founder of WeddingDates.ie a website that allows couples to search for Irish wedding venues and suppliers based on their preferred wedding date.<\/div>\n
This year, the couple are making the trip to Finland bigger and better, travelling overland in a campervan which has been given to them by Irish campervan rental company Celtic Campervans. \u00a0\u201cWe are crossing 7 countries in 7 days, to get to Finland in time for the Wife Carrying<\/em>\u201d Crossan said, \u201cour plan is to film the journey so the Irish public can follow the adventure and really get behind the Irish Wife Carriers!\u201d<\/em><\/div>\n

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Apart from Finland and Ireland, teams from 10 other countries will be participating in the world championships including USA, Australia, France, Germany, Russia and Estonia.<\/div>\n
\u201cIreland have missed out on the World Cup in South Africa, but we want to give the Irish public something to cheer about!<\/em>\u201d said Kennedy who is in training to make sure he crosses the \u201cFinnish Line\u201d in good time while carrying Ciara.<\/div>\n
Rowing in to sponsor the Wife Carrying Team are the Carlton Hotel group, who are running a special offer for anyone who books into any of the 10 hotels nationwide, their wife\/girlfriend\/partner goes free if they carry them over the threshold! \u00a0Check out http:\/\/www.carlton.ie\/wifecarrying for more details.<\/div>\n
Official Rules of Wife Carrying<\/strong><\/div>\n
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  • The length of the official track is 253.5 meters, and the surface of the track is partially sand, partially grass and partially gravel.<\/li>\n
  • The track has two dry obstacles and a water obstacle, about one meter deep.<\/li>\n
  • The wife to be carried may be your own, the neighbour\u2019s or you may have found her farther afield; she must, however, be over 17 years of age.<\/li>\n
  • The minimum weight of the wife to be carried is 49 kilos. If it is less than 49 kilos, the wife will be burdened with such a heavy rucksack that the total weight to be carried is 49 kilos.<\/li>\n
  • All the participants must have fun.<\/li>\n
  • If a contestant drops his wife, he has to relift her on to his back or in his arms and continue carrying.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n
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    Note to Editors:<\/strong> The Irish Wife Carrying Team will be filming their journey across Europe to Finland \u00a0and uploading these videos daily. \u00a0The team will be available for radio\/press interviews en route and in Finland. \u00a0WeddingDates will be live tweeting the event [@WeddingDates] with the hashtag #wifecarrying<\/div>\n
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    www.Twitter.com\/WeddingDates<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 16 June, 2010 CONTACT: Ciara Crossan WeddingDates.ie T: 021-4928993 M: 087-9577733 Email: ciara@weddingdates.ie GETTING CARRIED AWAY IN FINLAND! Irish Team travels to Wife Carrying World Championships Cork, Ireland \u2013 \u00a0Teams from around the world are travelling to Finland next week to represent their countries in one of the most unusual competitions in the land known as Wife Carrying. \u00a0 A small town in Finland, called Sonkaj\u00e4rvi is the home of the competition and this will be its […]","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weddingdates-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2378"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85050,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2378\/revisions\/85050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}