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FIBO
The Strongman Champions League is a Strongman competition circuit, with several Grand Prix events throughout the year and the Strongman Champions League overall champion title going to the overall winner at the end of the season. Competitors include legends in the sport, including Žydrūnas Savickas, Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson, Aivars Šmaukstelis, Krzysztof Radzikowski, Ervin Katona, Dainis Zageris, Mateusz Kieliszkowski, Oleksii Novikov, Mikhail Koklyaev, Matjaz Belsak, J.F. Caron, Vytautas Lalas, Kelvin de Ruiter, Laurence Shahlaei, Travis Ortmayer, Andrus Murumets, Pavlo Kordiyaka, Tom Stoltman, Rauno Heinla, Terry Hollands, Eddie Hall, Nick Best, Dennis Kohlruss and Martin Wildauer. Initially in close partnership with IFSA, it quickly asserted its independence and has acted as a unifying force in the world of strength athletics, bringing together athletes from IFSA with those affiliated to the World's Strongest Man circuit, and having close cooperation with o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Krzysztof Radzikowski
Krzysztof Edward Radzikowski (born August 18, 1981) is a professional strongman competitor from Głowno, Poland. He has competed in 112 International strongman competitions (2nd highest in history) and has won 24 of them, making him the sixth most decorated strongman in history. Strongman career Radzikowski started his strongman career in 2005 when he entered the Poland's Strongest Man competition. In 2008 he qualified to the Europe's Strongest Man competition and in the following year, won second place behind Mariusz Pudzianowski. His career took to the next level when he started to complete prolifically at Strongman Super Series, World Strongman Federation and Strongman Champions League. Radzikowski's first international win came in 2011 when he won 2011 Giants Live Poland competition. This victory qualified him for the 2011 World's Strongest Man contest, his first time in WSM, but he failed to qualify for the finals. Radzikowski won the inaugural 2012 WSF World Strongmen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Wildauer
Martin Wildauer (born 27 November 1987) is an Austrian strongman competitor and entrant to the World's Strongest Man competition. He is a competitor of the well-known Strongman Champions League and the Giants Live competitions. Martin is the current world record holder in the Bavarian stonelift and was known for his deadlifting. Biography Martin was born in Kufstein, Tirol in Austria on 27 November 1987. He was a sports enthusiast even as a child and at the age of 10 started kickboxing. After winning some national competitions in Austria after two years he began boxing but due to school commitments he found he did not have the time to commit to boxing. With the time he did have he began weight training and although his parents tried to encourage this further by buying him weights at home he found that the best environment for his progress was the gym. A meeting with a powerlifter introduced him to deadlifting and squatting and by the age of 15 he was deadlifting 200 kg. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Žydrūnas Savickas
Žydrūnas Savickas (; born July 15, 1975) is a Lithuanian former professional strongman and powerlifter. Throughout his career, he competed in and won 84 international competitions, including four World's Strongest Man titles, two IFSA Strongman World Championship's, a Fortissimus title, and a record eight Arnold Strongman Classic titles; a competition revered for its focus on testing static, brute strength. Due to these accomplishments, combined with 75 world records, particularly in events such as the deadlift, squat, and overhead press, including an unprecedented 16-year reign as the log lift world record holder, he is widely regarded as the greatest strongman of all time. Career Žydrūnas Savickas first became interested in strength sports after watching a Lithuanian strongman contest on TV in 1989. Three years later, he took part in that same strongman contest and defeated several older and more experienced competitors. At age 17, Savickas began to train in powerlifting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matjaz Belsak
Matjaz Belsak (in Slovenian Matjaž Belšak; born 23 September 1992) is a Slovenian professional strongman and powerlifter. Having competed in 66 International strongman competitions and winning 12 of them, Belsak is among the 20 most decorated strongmen of all time. Biography Early life Matjaž Belšak was born in a village Seničica, near Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia on 23 September 1992. He grew up in a family of cooks; his parents own a restaurantGostilna Belšak where he still occasionally works as an apprentice chef. He graduated in Tourist Studies. Powerlifting career Matjaž started working out in 2008, when he was 15, with a goal to become stronger. As his strength was increasing really fast, it soon became clear that he might be able to show some really decent results in a couple of years. He decided to compete in his first powerlifting meet in 2010, when he was 17 years old. During his early years of strength related sports he set quite a few Slovenian n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Travis Ortmayer
Travis Ortmayer (born August 9, 1981) is an American professional Strongman athlete from Cypress, Texas. He is nicknamed the Texas Stoneman due to his many world records in the Atlas Stone event. Early life Ortmayer was born in Lake Tahoe, Nevada and was an active child since his childhood. His strongman training facility was called "The Unit" and His father Roger also trained with him. He was supported by his mother, Sonja and his late sister Tara. Strength Sports Ortmayer started out training in bodybuilding in his early teens and eventually decided to train and compete in powerlifting. He met Marshall White, who introduced him to the Strongman sport. In 2002, Marshall and Ortmayer formed "the Unit" strongman training grounds in Cypress, Texas. "The Unit" was also joined by World's Strongest Man competitor Josh Thigpen and professional strongman Jim Glassman. Ortmayer earned his American Strongman Corporation (ASC) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurence Shahlaei
Laurence Cristiaan David Shahlaei (born 25 December 1982) is an English YouTuber, strength sports commentator, analyst, coach, and a retired strongman and powerlifting competitor. He is most noted for winning the 2016 Europe's Strongest Man competition. He has made the finals of the World's Strongest Man competition 5 times, winning fourth place in 2011. He also won fifth place at the 2018 World's Ultimate Strongman, and seventh place at the 2012 Arnold Strongman Classic. He is also the winner of England's Strongest Man (2009) and Britain's Strongest Man (2012, 2013) at the national circuit. Early life Shahlaei was born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. His father is Iranian from Kermanshah and his mother is English from Newcastle upon Tyne. He attended Balcarras School, and later moved to Stroud, Gloucestershire where he developed his passion towards strength sports. Strongman career Shahlaei started strongman training in 2005 and entered his first novice competition ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dainis Zageris
Dainis 'The Titan' Zageris (born 19 July 1982) is a Latvian strongman competitor and regular entrant to the Strongman Champions League. He has competed in 87 International strongman competitions (sixth highest in history) and has won 15 of them, making him the tenth most decorated strongman in history. Career Having competed prolifically in the Strongman Champions League from 2013 to 2022 throughout many Grand Prix competitions in Latvia, Germany, Netherlands, Finland, Norway, Serbia, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Gibraltar, England, Curaçao, Portugal, Zambia, Martinique and United Arab Emirates, Zageris won 13 international titles, 10 silver medals and 8 bronze medals. Zageris won 2021 World's Strongest Viking, and also is a two time World's Strongest Man entrant (2013 and 2015) and a Europe's Strongest Man bronze medalist (2015). Personal records *Deadlift ''(Raw)'' – (Push-Pull Bench Press and Deadlift Championship, Latvia - 2012) *Bench pre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vytautas Lalas
Vytautas Lalas (born 21 July 1982) is a Lithuanian professional strongman. He is most notable for being the winner of the 2013 Arnold Strongman Classic and the runner-up at the 2012 World's Strongest Man. Strongman Lalas' first international strongman event win was the Giants Live Poland event on 8 August 2010. This victory qualified Lalas for the 2010 World's Strongest Man competition in Sun City, South Africa, but he was unable to qualify for the finals. Lalas placed third in the 2011 Giants Live London event in March 2011, this placing qualified him for the 2011 World's Strongest Man contest later that year in Wingate, North Carolina. Lalas eventually made the finals and finished in 6th place overall in that contest. Lalas won the Strongman Champions League Finland event on 12 June 2011, and placed second at the 2011 SCL Bulgaria event. Lalas placed second at the 2012 Europe's Strongest Man contest which qualified him for the 2012 World's Strongest Man contest later in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dennis Kohlruss
Dennis Kohlruss (born 14 May 1988) is a German strongman competitor from Rastatt and the reigning 4 x times Germany's Strongest Man. He's also a regular entrant to the Strongman Champions League and a seven time podium finisher. He has competed in 33 International strongman competitions and has won the 2020 SCL World Record Breakers and 2021 Megatron competitions. Background At the age of 21, during his military service in the Bundeswehr, he stumbled across YouTube videos of 1998 World's Strongest Man Magnus Samuelsson and found enthusiasm for the sport of strongman. In Bavaria, there's a stone named 'Kohlruss stone' in his honour. He was the first person to shoulder it. Personal records In competition: *Deadlift – x 2 reps *Elevated Deadlift (18" partial lift/ side handles) – * Atlas Stone to shoulder – ''(German Record)'' *Log press (giant log) – ''(German Record)'' *Log press for reps – x 3 reps *Louis Cyr Dumbbell press – *Viking press – x 6 reps *Keg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kelvin De Ruiter
Kelvin de Ruiter is a competitive strongman from the Netherlands and is a four-time Strongest Man of the Netherlands champion. Having competed in 43 International strongman competitions and winning 8 of them, de Ruiter is among the Strongman#Modern Strongmen, 50 most decorated strongmen of all time. A carpenter by profession, he first noticed his talent for lifting heavy objects while working part time in a local breaker's yard. After training initially with his father, de Ruiter was mentored by former World’s Strongest Man bronze medalist Wout Zijlstra. Having competed prolifically in the Strongman Champions League and known for his prowess in vehicle pulling, de Ruiter is a three-time World Truck Pull Champion. He is also the Vehicle pull#Notable Strongmen, third greatest vehicle puller of all time behind Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson and Žydrūnas Savickas. Personal records *Deadlift – ''(during training)'' *Car Deadlift ''(15" from the floor)'' – x 3 reps (2019 SCL ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikhail Koklyaev
Mikhail Viktorovich Koklyaev (, born 17 December 1978) is a Russian weightlifter, powerlifter, strongman and boxer. He is widely regarded as one of the most versatile strength athletes of all time. Strongman Koklyaev has placed third place at the Arnold Strongman Classic in 2006, 2008 and 2013, as well as second in 2009. He was a medalist of all three IFSA World Championships, finishing third in 2005, second in 2006 and second in 2007. Koklyaev came in second place (with Igor Pedan) at the IFSA Strongman World 2-Man Championship, in Vilnius, Lithuania in 2007. He finished third at the 2010 World's Strongest Man contest, but failed to make the finals for the 2012 World's Strongest Man. Koklyaev qualified for the 2013 World's Strongest Man finals, but had to withdraw due to an earlier injury after the first event. He is a 7-time Strongman Champions League grand prix winner, and finished third overall for both the 2010 and 2012 SCL seasons. Having competed in 50 Internation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terry Hollands
Terry Hollands (born 6 June 1979) is a British bodybuilder and the winner of the 2bros Pro Luke Sandoe Classic Beginners Class 2019 bodybuilding championships. Hollands is also a retired strongman competitor and a past winner of England's Strongest Man, Britain's Strongest Man and UK's Strongest Man competitions. At international level, he is also a Europe's Strongest Man silver (2010) and bronze (2017) medalist, a two time World's Strongest Man bronze medalist (2007 and 2011), a World's Strongest Viking bronze medalist (2014), a two time Arnold Strongman Classic 8th-place winner (2011 and 2012), a World's Ultimate Strongman 9th-place winner (2018), and the 5th most prolific strongman contestant in history having competed in more than 90 international competitions, winning 4 of them throughout 17 years. With 12 international event wins, Hollands is noted for his vehicle pulling skills, making him the 7th best vehicle puller in strongman history. He was nicknamed Terr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
