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10.
Hafbor Julius Bjornsson You may know him as The Mountain on HBO’s
The Game of Thrones, but his friends call him Julius!
Okay, maybe they don’t...
Though he’s never placed higher than second in any of the seven World’s Strongest Man
competitions he participated in, Hafbor has a near impeccable record in Iceland.
Between the Iceland’s Strongest Man, Strongest Man in Iceland, and Iceland’s Strongest
Viking competitions, Hafbor has earned 13 first place victories.
While domestic violence claims may mar his personal life, records like a deadlift of
1,014 lb (460 kg) and a world record keg throw of 23’ (7.15 m) boost his strongman career.
9.
Bruce Wilhelm During the late ‘70s, Wilhelm impressed
the world at the World’s Strongest Man competition.
Before taking the title of the 1977 and 1978 competition, he stepped forward as the US
National AAU Super Heavyweight Weightlifting Champion in 1975 and 1976 and even won a silver
medal at the 1975 Pan-American Games in Mexico City.
At the 1976 Summer Olympics, he succeeded in three weight lifting phases but failed
to take home any medals. 8.
Geoff Capes This British strongman focused heavily on
shot put but came out strong in the World’s Strongest Man competitions.
Over the course of seven competitions, Capes placed in the top three in six of them and
earned first place in 1983 and 1985.
His career was met with many successes, including first place in Britain’s Strongest Man competition
in 1979, 1981, and 1983; British Muscle Power Championship in 1986 and 1987; and the 1986
UK Truck Pulling Championships. 7.
Jouko Ahola You may recognize him from the History Channel’s
series Vikings or, you know, from the many first place titles that he’s earned over
the course of his strongman career.
Between 1998 and 1999 alone, he took home the grand prize for Europe’s Strongest Man,
World Muscle Power Championships, World Strongman Challenge, World’s Strongest Team, and Strongest
Man Alive. 6.
Bill Kazmaier During the 1980’s, strongman Kazmaier sought
a vocation change and, after being rejected from the Green Bay Packers, joined the sport
of World Championship Wrestling.
By 1991, he debuted for the WCW and even participated in Lex Luger’s WCW World Heavyweight Championship.
Still, it’s his career as a strongman that impresses.
Over the course of his career, Kazmaier earned 14 first place awards in American and international
competitions - like the World Muscle Power Championships, Scottish Power Challenge, World’s
Strongest Man, and the Strongbow Superman Contest.
5.
Brian Shaw In 2011, 2013, 2015, and 2016, Brain Shaw
proved that he’s not the type of guy whose wrong side you want to be on.
At over 450 lb (~206 kg) and almost 7’ (204 cm), Shaw is a force to be reckoned with.
The very first competition he entered, the Denver Strongest Man contest in 2005, earned
him his first win, and since then he’s been gobbling them up.
His personal records are nothing to scoff at as he’s reportedly benched 496 lb (225
kg) and deadlifts 1,140 lb (520 kg).
In total, he’s earned 18 first place titles, four of which were in the World’s Strongest
Man competition.
4.
Jon Pall Sigmarsson Though gone way too soon at the age of 32,
Sigmarsson left behind a legacy worth being proud of.
If not for the traumatic aortic rupture that led to the cardiac arrest that killed him
in 1993, it’s likely that he could have turned his four World’s Strongest Man competition
wins into much more.
Still, his career was impressive, especially in his home country of Iceland where he placed
first in every Iceland’s Strongest Man competition that he participated in.
In total, he enjoyed 21 competitive victories in a variety of weightlifting and powerlifting
events.
3.
Magnus Ver Magnusson Since 1984, Magnus Ver Magnusson has enjoyed
feeling the weight of a barbell in his hands.
Only a year after his introduction into powerlifting, he took home a medal in the junior European
and World Championships of the European and International Powerlifting Federations.
That early win at the age of 22 simply set him up for a prolific strongman career.
From 1991 to 1996, Magnusson took home four first-place and two second-place titles and
competed, and won, in eight of Iceland’s Strongest Man competitions from 1988 to 2004.
2.
Zydrunas Savickas The 400 lb (180 kg) Lithuanian powerlifter
and strongman has been impressing crowds since the late 90’s, with his first win in the
Lithuanian National Powerlifting Championships.
Since 1995, the Big Z earned nine more first place titles in Lithuania’s powerlifting
championships and twelve in Lithuania’s Strongest Man competition.
To go through every championship, competition, and event he ever placed first in would take
too long for many attention spans, so let’s just say he’s taken home over 90 since the
start of his career.
1.
Mariusz Pudzianowski Barring a 19-month imprisonment in Lowicz,
Poland, strongman and MMA fighter Mariusz Zbigniew Pudzianowski has had a career that
many in his field would kill for.
The 320 lb (145 kg) Pole has set personal records of deadlifting 915 lb (415 kg) and
benching 640 lb (290 kg) while also bringing home the first-place title for the 2002, 2003,
2005, 2007, and 2008 World’s Strongest Man competition.
In the Strongman Super Series, he earned 16 wins over 21 events and placed first in every
Europe’s Strongest Man competition he entered from 2002 to 2009.
As for his MMA career, he’s fought in 17 matches and won 11.
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