Taisto Miettinen is an award-winning Finnish athlete. He won the gold medal for the Water Running the World 2004 and was the winner of the Wife Carrying

Wife Carrying

Wife carrying is a sport in which male competitors race while each carrying a female teammate. The objective is for the male to carry the female through a special obstacle track in the fastest time...

World Championships in 2009, 2010, & 2011. He has been the oldest contestant (45) who has won World Championship in wife carrying. He has won 10 medals in wife carrying World Championship competitions.

He is a lawyer and he has written a book on corporate tax minimization arrangements.