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This list of strongmen is a list of people who are renowned for their feats of strength Ancient Greeks ... player who competed in the 1977 and 1979 World's Strongest ...
Húsafell stone carry – 186 kg (410 lb) for 98.16 metres (322 ft 1 in) (2019 Iceland's Strongest Man) (world record) [78] [79] → Before establishing this, Hafþór broke the 25 year old world record of the event by carrying the stone 90 metres (295 ft 3 in) during 2017 Iceland's Strongest Man [35]
Hafþór's international accolades and winning everything there is in the sport cemented his legacy as one of the greatest strongmen of all time, [2] and due to breaking 100+ world records in various static lifts and feats displaying brute strength, many analysts and strongman experts regard him as "the strongest man to have ever walked the earth".
Based on his recorded feats, including lifting 500 pounds (227 kg) with one finger and backlifting 4,337 pounds (1,967 kg), former International Fitness and Bodybuilding Federation chairman Ben Weider stated in 2000, that Cyr is the strongest man ever. [1]
As a competitive strongman, Iceland's Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson has won 60 national and international competitions out of 104 total contests since beginning his career in 2009. 58 of his wins have come as an individual competitor while the remaining two came at the World's Strongest Team competition. Hafþór has reached the podium in 84 of ...
Edward Stephen Hall was born in Newcastle-under-Lyme on 15 January 1988. [9] As a teenager, he was a successful competitive swimmer in his age group; he competed in the UK Nationals swimming competition in 2001, winning four gold medals and one silver while setting two British records in the process.
Cheick Ahmed al-Hassan Sanou, also known as Iron Biby, is a strongman from Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso. [2] As the current world record holder in the log clean and press, axle press, and numerous unofficial records for heaviest weight pressed overhead, Sanou is regarded as one of the greatest overhead pressers of all time. [3]
On September 13, 2020, Rauno broke the 400 kg Deadlift (standard bar) for repetitions world record with 6 reps under World's Ultimate Strongman Feats of Strength series. [7] Along with Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson and Eddie Hall , Rauno is also one of only a handful of men who has deadlifted 1,000 lbs (453.5 kg) or more, quite a few times. [ 8 ]