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TAMPERE (Finland): Leaping over timber and wading through waist-high water, the Estonian couple, Margo Uusorg and Egle Soll, won this year's wife-carrying world championships on Saturday, capturing the title for the third consecutive year. The winning couple cleared the 253.5m track in just over a minute, beating 22 couples from six countries, including Denmark, England, the United States, Ireland and Finland. Margo Uusorg's younger brother, Madis, and his partner Ivi Loomets finished second. Some 8,000 spectators gathered in the town of Sonkajarvi, some 350 miles north of Helsinki, for the event. — AP

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