Eight couples — only three of them actually husband and wife — battled it out through four heats and a final around an obstacle course which included a water jump.
The preceding weekend, three fresh-faced undergraduate teams in suits had battled it out in a series of business-related tasks inspired by the popular BBC series.
Only once in FIFA World Cup history has there been no European team in the final, in 1930 when neighbours Argentina and Uruguay battled it out for glory in Montevideo.