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Laine Snook
Laine Snook (born 1968) is a former strongman and professional Highland Games competitor. As an athlete he competed internationally but his career was cut short by injury. He went on to specialise in strength based sport and represented both England and Great Britain in various Highland Games and strength athletic events. He also became the world benchpress champion. Snook gained international fame as one of the world's foremost exponents of grip strength. Early life Snook's father ran a large transport company, something which he would go on to emulate in running Devon Fleet's Hereford Branch. By the age of 12 Snook was already 6'2'' and . He became a shot putter under the mentorship of Geoff Capes. Sporting career Athletics Winning events such as the AAA Midland Counties championship in 1994, (following in the footsteps of athletes such as Bill Tancred and Andy Drzewiecki) Snook got invited at platforms to perform at international level. However, an operation o ...
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Great Britain
Great Britain is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the north-west coast of continental Europe, consisting of the countries England, Scotland, and Wales. With an area of , it is the largest of the British Isles, the List of European islands by area, largest European island, and the List of islands by area, ninth-largest island in the world. It is dominated by a maritime climate with narrow temperature differences between seasons. The island of Ireland, with an area 40 per cent that of Great Britain, is to the west – these islands, along with over List of islands of the British Isles, 1,000 smaller surrounding islands and named substantial rocks, comprise the British Isles archipelago. Connected to mainland Europe until 9,000 years ago by a land bridge now known as Doggerland, Great Britain has been inhabited by modern humans for around 30,000 years. In 2011, it had a population of about , making it the world's List of islands by population, third-most-populous islan ...
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Randall J
Randall may refer to the following: Places United States *Randall, California, former name of White Hall, California, an unincorporated community * Randall, Indiana, a former town * Randall, Iowa, a city * Randall, Kansas, a city * Randall, Minnesota, a city *Randall, West Virginia, an unincorporated community * Randall, Wisconsin, a town * Randall, Burnett County, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community *Randall County, Texas * Randall Creek, in Nebraska and South Dakota *Randall's Island, part of New York City * Camp Randall, Madison, Wisconsin, a former army camp, on the National Register of Historic Places *Fort Randall, South Dakota, a former military base, on the National Register of Historic Places Elsewhere * Mount Randall, Victoria Land, Antarctica * Randall Rocks, Graham Land, Antarctica *Randall, a community in the town of New Tecumseth, Ontario, Canada Businesses *Randall Amplifiers, a manufacturer of guitar amplifiers *Randall House Publications, American publisher *R ...
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Anvil
An anvil is a metalworking tool consisting of a large block of metal (usually Forging, forged or Steel casting, cast steel), with a flattened top surface, upon which another object is struck (or "worked"). Anvils are massive because the higher their inertia, the more efficiently they cause the energy of striking tools to be transferred to the work piece. In most cases the anvil is used as a forge, forging tool. Before the advent of modern welding technology, it was the primary tool of metal workers. The great majority of modern anvils are made of cast steel that has been heat treated by either Case-hardening, flame or Induction_hardening, electric induction. Inexpensive anvils have been made of cast iron and low-quality steel, but are considered unsuitable for serious use, as they deform and lack rebound when struck. The largest single piece tool steel anvil that is heat treated is 1600 pounds. This anvil was made in 2023 by Oak Lawn Blacksmith. There are larger anvils tha ...
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Alexey Tyukalov
Alexey 'Tank' Tyukalov (born 9 November 1978) is a Russian strongman and grip strength specialist. During his childhood Tyukalov excelled in Boxing but gradually moved to grip strength training after realizing his prodigious hand strength. In 1998, he moved to Finland to study Economics, however pursued grip training during his leisure time. In 2012, he officially closed the IronMind Captains of Crush No.3 gripper (/ RGC 149 of pressure) which is recognized as the gold standard in world class crush grip, and in the same year, broke Juha Harju's world record in the 'Captains of Crush - Silver Bullet Hold' with the No.3 gripper with a time of 52.49 seconds. In his first Armlifting competition '2013 Visegrip Viking', following a fierce battle against Mike Burke, he managed to establish the all time world record in the IronMind Rolling Thunder with the new and improved, version 3 and placed overall second behind Burke in the full competition. Ensuing years, Tyukalov won the Vise ...
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Odd Haugen
Odd Erling Haugen (born January 16, 1950) is a Norwegian-born American strongman and a grip strength specialist. He has also competed in bodybuilding, weightlifting and powerlifting. Career Haugen developed a passion for size and strength at a very young age. He used barbells and dumbbells made out of birch trees and took metal shop courses to gain knowledge on how to build strength training equipment. By 1970, Haugen became the Norwegian national bodybuilding champion by winning Mr. Norway title at the age of 20. Around this time, he also held the Norwegian junior deadlift record with . He then moved to the United States and earned a bachelor's degree in sports physiology and a master's degree in Business Administration. Haugen played football, wrestled, and threw shot put and discus at Western Maryland College (now McDaniel College). Haugen earned three NCAA All-American accolades in the shot put (1971, 1972, 1973). Shortly after graduating from Western Maryland in 1973, Haugen ...
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Mark Henry
Mark Jerrold Henry (born June 12, 1971) is an American former powerlifter, Olympic weightlifter, strongman, and retired professional wrestler currently signed to WWE under a Legends contract. Henry is a two-time Olympian (1992 and 1996) and a gold, silver, and bronze medalist at the Pan American Games in 1995. As a powerlifter, he was WDFPF World Champion (1995) and a two-time U.S. National Champion (1995 and 1997) and once held an American record in the deadlift. He still holds the WDFPF world records in the squat, deadlift and total. In weightlifting, Henry was a three-time U.S. National Weightlifting Champion (1993, 1994, 1996), an American Open winner (1992), a two-time U.S. Olympic Festival Champion (1993 and 1994) and a NACAC champion (1996). He held all three Senior US American weightlifting records in 1993–1997. In strongman, Henry won the inaugural Arnold Strongman Classic in 2002. Since joining the World Wrestling Federation (now WWE) in 1996, he ...
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Thomas Inch
Thomas Inch (27 December 1881 – 12 December 1963) was a British Strongman, who held the titles of Britain's Strongest Youth, Britain's Strong Man and the originator of the Thomas Inch dumbbell challenge. Early life Inch was born on 27 December 1881 in Scarborough, a seaside town on the North Yorkshire coast in the U.K. He became interested in bodybuilding and strength as a young boy, bodybuilding through manual labour. Lifting career In 1902, aged 20, Inch was declared by a major 'Strongman' publication as the "World's Strongest Youth," enhancing his notoriety. His inspirations included Eugen Sandow, having seen the German ripping a pack of cards in half and throwing the split deck into the audience. Inch was said to have caught one half of the pack, proceeded to split that in half in the audience, and throw it back at Sandow. Unlike many professional Strongmen of his day, Inch focused on standard lifts with barbells and dumbbells and left the hoisting of wooden ...
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Mark Felix
Mark Felix (born 17 April 1966) is a Grenadian-English retired strongman competitor. He has competed at a record 18 World's Strongest Man contests, reaching the finals three times. He is the winner of the 2015 Ultimate Strongman Masters World Championships, 2016 WSF World Cup India and has won several international grip contests, including the Rolling Thunder World Championships in 2008 and 2009, as well as the Vice Grip Viking Challenge in 2011 and 2012. Having competed in over 100 international competitions throughout 19 years, Felix is the 3rd most prolific strongman contestant in history. Felix has been affectionately called "The Miracle Man" due to his immense grip strength, deadlift ability, and continued impressive performance in strongman competition despite his relatively older age, competing at the high-level international competitions until age 57. Early life Felix was born in 1966 in St. George's, Grenada. At the age of 23, he moved to Rishton, Lancashire, Engl ...
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Luton
Luton () is a town and borough in Bedfordshire, England. The borough had a population of 225,262 at the 2021 census. Luton is on the River Lea, about north-west of London. The town's foundation dates to the sixth century as a Saxon settlement on the river, from which Luton derives its name. Luton is recorded in the Domesday Book as ''Loitone'' and ''Lintone''. One of the largest churches in Bedfordshire, St Mary's Church, was built in the 12th century. There are local museums which explore Luton's history in Wardown Park and Stockwood Park. Luton was once known for hatmaking and also had a large Vauxhall Motors factory. Car production at the plant began in 1905 and continued until its closure in 2002. Production of commercial vehicles continues and the head office of Vauxhall Motors is in the village of Chalton on the northern border of the borough . London Luton Airport opened in 1938 and is now one of Britain's major airports, with three railway stations also in th ...
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IronMind
IronMind Enterprises, Inc. is an American niche market business based in Nevada City, California, that specializes in "tools of the trade for serious strength athletes." Though many of its products include strength-training equipment and accessories, IronMind also publishes books, DVDs and the quarterly magazine '' MILO: A Journal For Serious Strength Athletes''. IronMind sponsors competitions in weightlifting, arm wrestling, grip strength and strongman at events such as the Arnold Sports Festival, the GNC Grip Gauntlet, and North American Strongman. Psychology and strength sports IronMind was founded in 1988 by Randall J. Strossen, a Stanford psychology PhD with a longstanding interest in weightlifting and related strength sports. That year also marked the beginning of Strossen's 12-year stint writing a monthly column for ''Iron Man'' magazine about the psychology of bodybuilding and weightlifting. IronMind's slogan, "Stronger Minds, Stronger Bodies," reflects the company ...
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Rolling Thunder (exercise)
Rolling Thunder is a one-hand deadlift first developed in 1993 by IronMind Enterprises, Inc. It primarily tests grip strength via a rotating, thick handle of 2 " (6.03 cm) in diameter and 7 " (19.05 cm) in length (rotating portion is 6" (15.24 cm)) attached to a weight loadable Olympic loading pin via a carabiner. The thickness of the handle is derived from the Thomas Inch dumbbell. Throughout the years, it became an internationally recognized method to measure 'support grip' which is one of the three facets of hand strength along-with crush grip and pinch grip. Versions The first version (V1), had a black coloured handle and was used from 1993 to 2008. However, as the records with this handle kept on increasing during the 2000s, it was observed that the handle drop test (which was used to verify the rotating nature of the handle) didn't work anymore. Despite rotating without added weight or upto moderate amounts of weight, it would not rotate at the verge of the world ...
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Andrus Murumets
Andrus Murumets (born 20 July 1978) is an Estonian strongman and entrant to the World's Strongest Man contest. He reached 5th in the World Rankings according to the IFSA rankings in 2008. Andrus competed in the IFSA World Championships in 2005 finishing 4th, 5th in 2006 and 5th in 2007. Andrus has competed in the Arnold Strongman Classic 3 times, his best finish was 3rd in 2007. In 2009 he became the overall champion of the Strongman Champions League. He has been described by Svend Karlsen as having the strongest grip in the world. Having competed in 40 International strongman competitions and winning 6 of them, Andrus is among the 50 most decorated strongmen of all time. Murumets lives near Tallinn in Üksnurme, Saku Parish. Since May 2011 Murumets is working as a police officer. Personal records * IronMind Rolling Thunder (V1) – (former world record) :→ ''Broke Magnus Samuelsson Magnus Samuelsson (born December 21, 1969), is a Sweden, Swedish actor, former Stro ...
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