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Welcome To The
Principality
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Hutt
River
www.principality-hutt-river.org/sports
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PHR -
Wife Carrying!
World Champion
Joins the Elite of the
Principality Sports Competitors!
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HRH Prince Leonard is proud to announce that the Principality
is represented in the sport of Wife Carrying by:
Miss Julia
Galvin
Picture courtesy Grady Winfield
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In the sport of Wife
Carrying
SONKAJARVI, FINLAND
is where the sport was
invented
and the world championships have been held there each year around
the month of June since 1992.
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Basic Rules of the sport!
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The length of the
official track is 253.5 metres.
Its surface is made up of sand, grass and asphalt.
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The track has two dry
obstacles and one water obstacle,
about a metre deep.
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The wife to be
carried may be your own, the neighbour's or one you may just wish for?;
she must, however, be over 17 years of age.
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The minimum weight of
the wife to be carried is 49 kilos. If she weighs less she will
be burdened with a heavy rucksack in order she reaches the desired minimum
weight.
There is no maximum weight!
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The winner is the
couple who completes the course in the shortest time.
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If a contestant drops
the wife, he has to lift her back onto his back
or in his arms and continue carrying.
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The only equipment
allowed is a belt worn by the carrier.
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The contestants run
the race two at a time, so each heat is a contest in itself.
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Each contestant takes
care of his/her safety and, if deemed necessary, insurance.
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The contestants have
to pay attention to the instructions given by the organisers of the
competition.
Along with the wife carrying world championships there is also a team
competition.
The track is the same but three men in the team carry the wife in turns.
At the exchange point the carrier has to drink the official “wife carrying
drink”
before
continuing the race.
We at PHR are proud to have Julia representing us
and will certainly be reporting on her exploits!
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Miss Julia Galvin
Principality of Hutt River
Novelty Sports Representative.
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Check out Julia's latest exploits in each of the sports
shown on the left and
notice of her current or upcoming exploits will be shown immediately below
to enable all to follow.
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2012
PHR represented by Dame Julia Galvin at the:
2012 World Alternative Games Championships
August 17th to September 02nd at:
Llanwrtyd Wells in Powys, Mid Wales, UK
EVENT INFO HERE! |
2012 World Wife Carrying Championships
Julia Galvin represented PHR in the:
July 07th 2012 in FINLAND
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Helping Geraldton celebrate Australia Day
2012.
Julia Galvin, PHR Novelty Sports representative again travels from Ireland
to host the:
Second Geraldton Wife Carrying Championships.
Geraldton, WESTERN AUSTRALIA
January 26th 2012
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2011
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Julia Galvin represents PHR in the:
Inaugural Geraldton Wife Carrying Championships
Part of the Australia Day Celebrations in
Geraldton, WESTERN AUSTRALIA
January 26th 2011
Dame Julia attends Geraldton
for the Inaugural Wife Carrying Competition (report) &
attends PHR for Investiture of her
Award: DSOL (photos)
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2010 |
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NEWSFLASH!
Miss Julia Galvin elevated to Dame Julia
Galvin DSOL
Sovereigns 85th Birthday Honours List 27th August
2010
Dame Julia Galvin represents PHR in the:
World Wife Carrying Championships
July 2nd - 3rd 2010
Dame Julia represents the Principality at
the:
2010 Irish Wife Carrying
Championships
July 24th 2010
Web-site to view 2010 event pictures
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2009
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Visit the 2009
Wife-Carrying
Report! |
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