Cronin said: “I didn’t say yes initially – Stuart signed up before asking me.<\/p>\n
“Imagine being put in a washing machine, it feels a lot like that.”<\/p>\n
The couple’s favoured method is the Estonian hold.<\/p>\n
As part of the prize, winners of the UK race receive \u00a3250 towards travel costs for the World Championships.<\/p>\n
The sport is a different level in Scandinavia, though, Johnson said. “You get these gladiator humans and it looks like they weren’t even carrying anything,” he said.<\/p>\n
Despite returning to defend the crown, Giles says there is competition from a Finnish couple coming to upset the odds.<\/p>\n
The Scandinavian couple came 27th in the 2025 World Championships, completing the course in one minute and 32 seconds.<\/p>\n
“I think this year there will be quite a lot of pressure – they look absolutely stacked,” he said.<\/p>\n
The UK Wife Carrying Race takes place on Sunday at 10:15 GMT at The Nower in Dorking, ahead of the Leith Hill half marathon. <\/p>\n
Spectators are being encouraged to arrive on foot or by public transport, and bring their buckets and water pistols too, of course. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cronin said: “I didn’t say yes initially – Stuart signed up before asking me. “Imagine being put in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":{"0":"post-520821","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-surrey","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-surrey"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}