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William Kazmaier (born December 30, 1953) is an American former world champion powerlifter, world champion strongman and professional wrestler. During his illustrious career, he set over 40 powerlifting and strongman world records, and won two International Powerlifting Federation (IPF) World Championships and three World's Strongest Man titles.
Overhead Log lift (wooden log) – Winner Bill Kazmaier & Lars Hedlund 346lbs; Weight toss (56lbs weight over bar throw) – Winner Bishop Dolegiewicz 17 feet; Truck pull (16200lbs truck pull over 100foot course in heats) – Winner Cleve Dean; Engine race (800lbs over 150feet uphill course) – Winner Bill Kazmaier in 14:40sec
The 1982 World's Strongest Man was the sixth edition of World's Strongest Man and was won by Bill Kazmaier from the United States. It was his third title in a row. Tom Magee from Canada finished second and John Gamble from the United States finished third.
Three of the champions, Bill Kazmaier, Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson and Brian Shaw, have been inducted into the International Sports Hall of Fame. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] The competition also has several rival and parallel competitions with which it is sometimes confused, including the Arnold Strongman Classic , Rogue Invitational and Strongest Man ...
The 1981 World's Strongest Man was the fifth edition of World's Strongest Man and was won by Bill Kazmaier from the United States. It was his second consecutive title. Geoff Capes from the United Kingdom finished second after finishing third the previous year, and Dave Waddington from the United States finished third.
With Cactus Jack in the opening match, Oz replaced him against Bill Kazmaier. Doug Somers replaced the injured Michael Hayes, who was originally scheduled for the match against Van Hammer. The Phantom later revealed himself to be Rick Rude. United States Tag Team Champions The Patriots challenged the Enforcers for the WCW World Tag Team ...
It was notable for that reason and for the quality of the strength athletes it attracted, which included every winner of the World's Strongest Man competition from 1980 onwards including Jón Páll Sigmarsson, Geoff Capes and Bill Kazmaier from the 1980s right up to the five time WSM champion Mariusz Pudzianowski and four time WSM champion ...
The winner of the three previous competitions, Bill Kazmaier, was not invited to compete again in this year. The contest was held at Christchurch, New Zealand. [1] The title of the competition, formerly "World's Strongest Men", was changed to the current title for this competition.