• The World Strongman Challenge was one of the most enduring annual strongmen competitions, running in various guises for twenty years, with only two years...
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  • Invitational, Shaw Classic, Giants Live, IFSA World Championships, Strongman Super Series, World Strongman Challenge and Siberian Power Show have adopted a standardized...
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    Svend Karlsen (category World Games silver medalists for Norway)
    1967) is a Norwegian former strongman, powerlifter, bodybuilder and 2001 World's Strongest Man. Being a winner of the World's Strongest Man, the Europe's...
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    strongman, powerlifter and bodybuilder who was the first man to win the World's Strongest Man four times and the first and only man to win the World Muscle...
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    April 1963) is an Icelandic former powerlifter and strongman competitor. He is a four-time World's Strongest Man, having won in 1991, 1994, 1995, 1996...
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    Swedish actor, former Strongman and the 1998 World's Strongest Man. Known as the 'king of the stones', he made it to the World's Strongest Man podium 5...
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    World Muscle Power Championships, World Strongman Challenge, Arnold Strongman Classic, Giants Live, Highlander World Championships, World Strongman Federation...
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    strongman competitor, winner of the World Strongman Challenge in the under 105 kg category, and notable for being a repeat competitor at the World's Strongest...
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    professional strongman who is widely regarded as one of the greatest strength athletes of all time. He won the 2011, 2013, 2015, and 2016 World's Strongest...
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    Kazmaier (born December 30, 1953) is an American former world champion powerlifter, world champion strongman and professional wrestler. During his illustrious...
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    competition. Jones returned to Strongman competition in 1996, winning the World Strongman Challenge, and placed third in a World's Strongest Man qualifying...
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    Capes JP (23 August 1949 – 23 October 2024) was a British shot putter, strongman, and Highland Games competitor. He was famous in the UK in the 1980s for...
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    Žydrūnas Savickas (category World record holders in weightlifting)
    professional strongman and powerlifter. Throughout his career, he competed in and won 84 international competitions, including four World's Strongest Man...
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  • (1999 AFSA Dubai Full Strength Challenge) Beer keg press – 137.5 kg (303 lb) (1995 World Strongman Challenge) (former world record) Tyre drag – 400 kg (882 lb)...
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  • (September 12, 1954 – October 29, 1991) was an American world champion powerlifter and a strongman competitor. He was known by the nickname "the Nightmare"...
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  • April 1965) is an Icelandic Strongman and Highland Games competitor. He held the titles of the World Strongman Challenge and the European Hercules. He...
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    May 1964) is an Austrian former strongman and powerlifter who was known as having the largest muscular arms in the world during the early-mid 1990s. He...
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    Ahola (born 1 December 1970) is a Finnish former strongman, powerlifter and actor. He is a two time World's Strongest Man winner, a two time Europe's Strongest...
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    Badenhorst (born 10 October 1962) is a former WPC world champion powerlifter and professional strongman competitor from South Africa. Badenhorst was born...
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  • 1961) is a Welsh former world's strongest man champion (1993). Competing in bodybuilding, Olympic weightlifting, and strongman. A former weightlifter,...
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    and former strongman competitor. With 43 international victories at a record 70% winning percentage and over 20 world records in his strongman career, he...
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  • Riku Kiri (section Strongman)
    1963 in Kotka, Finland) is a Finnish former strongman and powerlifter, best known for competing in the World's Strongest Man competition, narrowly missing...
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    British former coal miner, strongman and professional wrestler. As a strongman, he won the 1989 World's Strongest Man, was World Muscle Power champion, and...
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  • and The Beast Strongman Challenge, also known as the Beauty and The Beast World Strongman Challenge was a short-lived annual strongman competition that...
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  • last time. He managed a podium finish on three occasions at the World Strongman Challenge, third in 1995 and second in 1997 and 2000. Ollesch played a supporting...
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  • Listed below are the progressions of 7 deadlift world records across powerlifting, strongman and armlifting (sport of grip strength), and ultimately, the...
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    English media personality, retired strongman, and current mixed martial artist. He is best known for his then world-record setting 500 kg (1,102 lb) deadlift...
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  • including World Muscle Power Classic and World Strongman Challenge. Magnús Ver Magnússon followed in their footsteps and emulated Sigmarsson's four World's Strongest...
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    professional strongman and strength coach from Woodbridge, Connecticut. He was the runner-up at the 2008 World's Strongest Man, a two-time Arnold Strongman Classic...
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  • Arnold Strongman Classic is an annual competition featuring strength athletes from all over the world, determining who is the Strongest Man in the World. Created...
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