Sports | Eukonkanto’s World Championships attracted the attention of the international media – The lively atmosphere of the competition is spreading on social media

Eukonkannon The World Cup competitions were organized on the weekend at Sonkajärvi in ​​Pohjois-Savo.Taisto Miettinen and Katja Kovanen were crowned eukonkotto world champions on Saturday. Miettinen’s championship is already the seventh.

“Last time I missed the gold medal by 0.1 seconds and it stung”, Miettinen, who has participated in the race since 1997, told of the event on the website.

Lithuania won the World Cup silver Vytautas Kirkauskas and Neringa Kirklauskiene, who have won the competitions on the previous two occasions. They got the bronze Ilpo Haalisto and Jenni Piippo.

Friday’s sprint race took Joni Juntunen and Jaana Haavisto.

The race has traditionally been listed internationally as well. So also this time. Among other things, the British newspaper The Guardian shared a video of the competition on Twitter.

Also a Chinese diplomat Zhang Heqing got excited to tweet about the World Cup and its hot conditions.

Also Euronews told about the competitions with a video. The news also reiterated the rules and went through the possible carrying styles, such as the classic backpack style, “fireman style” i.e. carrying on the shoulder, or the Estonian style popular with modern racers, where the wife is upside down on her back, so the legs come over the neck and shoulders of the wearer.