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    in colourful costumes, took part in the run on the 20 km track with 40 obstacles. In 2017, the StrongmanRun took place on the festival grounds. Several...
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    Brian Shaw (born February 26, 1982) is an American retired professional strongman who is widely regarded as one of the greatest strength athletes of all-time...
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    In politics, a strongman is a type of authoritarian political leader — civilian or military — who exerts control through military enforcement and has...
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  • The Arnold Strongman Classic is an annual competition featuring strength athletes from all over the world, determining who is the Strongest Man in the...
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    Arnold Strongman Classic, the Europe's Strongest Man, and the World's Strongest Man competitions in the same calendar year and holds numerous Strongman titles...
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    retired strongman and powerlifter. Due to his 84 international wins in strongman including four World's Strongest Man titles, eight Arnold Strongman Classic...
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    Tom Ryan Stoltman (born 30 May 1994) is a British professional strongman competitor, from Invergordon, Scotland. He is a three time winner of the World's...
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  • 1982) is a Canadian strongman and powerlifter from Les Hauteurs, Quebec, Canada. Having competed in 73 International strongman competitions and winning...
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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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    Joe "Powerful" Falzon (1932–2023), was a performing oldtime strongman from the isle of Malta who performed feats of strength shows during the 1960s and...
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  • The Strongman Super Series, known from 2001 to 2004 as the IFSA World Strongman Super Series, from 2005 to 2008 as the World's Strongest Man Super Series...
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    strength, based on both: non-standard and historical implements as seen in Strongman and Highland games, and standardized and calibrated equipment as seen...
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  • 100 world records and numerous feats of strength across every single strongman event, making him the most prolific record breaker of all time, in all...
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  • Elite Strongman promotions continued to run a version of the England's strongest man final, whilst a separate competition run by UKSC was also run in 2010...
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  • headed by Ulf Bengtsson, to run the Strongman Super Series. The Strongman Super Series was designed to award the annual Strongman World Championship title...
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  • The World's Strongest Man is an international strongman competition held every year. Organized by American event management company IMG, a subsidiary...
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    The Shaw Classic is a strongman competition run and hosted by four-time World's Strongest Man Brian Shaw, who won the inaugural competition in 2020. The...
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  • measuring the height or the distance tossed. The keg toss was introduced to Strongman in 1997 European Open competition where competitors had to throw a 20 kg...
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  • including the Arnold Strongman Classic and various WSM Super Series Grand Prix's. The last time the GNC Grip Gauntlet was run in a competitive format...
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  • The World Strongman Cup Federation ("WSCF") was a worldwide organisation within strength athletics that claimed to be the sport's organising body with...
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    competition in CrossFit organized by Rogue Fitness and the 3rd to feature a strongman competition. It was held at the Dell Diamond in Austin, Texas from 26...
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    Василь Вірастюк; born 22 April 1974), is a Ukrainian politician and former strongman competitor. He is a brother of Roman Virastyuk. Virastyuk was the winner...
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  • Rauno Heinla (born 7 June 1982) is an Estonian professional strongman competitor. He is a specialist in the deadlift events and is regarded as one of...
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  • Rob Dixon (born 1964) is a British former strongman competitor, and a current ultramarathon runner. Dixon is notable for having won the major British...
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    Gaston 2010. Strongman 2008, pp. 84–85. Strongman 2008, p. 93. Savage 1992, pp. 98–99. Robb 2006, p. 110. Midge Ure interview 2009. Strongman 2008, pp. 93–94...
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  • United Kingdom Strength Council was founded by Glenn Ross, the famed strongman and also founder and promoter of the Irish Strength Association. The UKSC...
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    Encyclopedia of Russia and the Soviet Union (1961). Frye, Timothy. Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin's Russia (2021) excerpt Greene, by Samuel...
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    The "World Strongman" International Union of associations and clubs (old name World Strongman Federation - "WSF") ("WSM") is a worldwide organization within...
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    events which may feature, on a selective basis, in the annual Arnold Strongman Classic competition. In the 2023 competition in Columbus, Ohio, the contestants...
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  • team during their run to the quarter-finals of UEFA Euro 2016. The Vikings joined up with Iceland midfielder Aron Gunnarsson and strongman Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson...
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