first event today is the last man standing deadlift very easy all you got to do is bend
over and pick this bar up problem is the starting weight is 320 kilos and the World
Record is four hundred and ten kilos now Derek four hundred and ten kilos can the World Record
go today oh absolutely I think you have some of the best dead lifters in the world here
outside of powerlifting even in powerlifting have some of the strongest guys I think Mark
Felix absolutely Terry ollands no doubt about it and we were not the the giant six-foot eight
Brian Shaw I think he can even have a have a go at it I saw him pull 500k lows from 11
inches at the Arnold Classic just a couple weeks ago so there's no doubt in my mind
it's gonna go today it just matters who's gonna win the event which is gonna be most impressive
it's a rising bar competition and Rafael Wilczynski found the early weights too hard they
went out at 350 kilos so - Gary Gardner now record oh naught hit the opening wait there went for 395
strain but I'm afraid he didn't get it so the bar goes up once again we're on to 412
kilograms these are the men left in so we're in a world-record weight and it's only round three
such is the quality kind of Gerrit Badenhorst I remember back in Mauritius when he hit that
410 kilos a lot of people thought that would not be bettered now we have a lineup of men ready to
beat it Alex Curletto oh of Italy first used to live in New Jersey now actually his home is in
the Midlands of England it's pulled 400 kilos in the gym you're allowed straps in the strongman
deadlift everything else though is the same as powerlifting in terms of just getting it up on
a normal height bar but I'm afraid Curletto oh goes out he gets given 390 as his mark now Darren
Sadler 3 9 5 kilos his best ever left never gone over the 400 kilo mark so this is really asking
quite a lot especially when you consider he's er the lightest man in the field by a long way
this British crowd would just love to see someone like Sadler hit the world record here in England
last-minute psych-up no he was really thinking long and hard and you can see from the smile
I think he thought all along that would be too much now Vytautas Lalas lives in
Dublin Lithuanian Lithuania Strongest Man actually as Savickas didn't take
part in this year's contest this guy is a real surprise package he's almost as wide
as he is tall it's off the ground Oh stalls at the knees and I'm afraid it's a no Lalas
turn of Mark Felix (Music) again strapping in scene feel extreme 405 before for 12
and a half quite close this is a big mental barrier over the world records the man from
England has done it he gets the down signal from referee Gregor Edmonds and indeed Dave
Beatty the two referees former world champion and world record holder of powerlifting,
he would have enjoyed watching that kept it coming all the way Mark Felix drove the
hips in and now it's over to Laurence Shahlaei ¡oh! look at the eyes reminds
me of Bill Kazmaier from the 80s super sight Shahlaei reckons he's done for 420
in the gym there's a lot of gym talk that goes around at see if he can do it in competition
and ¡oh! very easy, easy very quick off the floor
stalled slightly at the top of the hips but that was a good lift
I think he could be good for 420 even this will be interesting what weight we choose next but we
still have Terry Hollands and indeed Brian Shaw from the USA to come Hollands actually tore a
muscle in his buttocks about two months prior to this and indeed for some bicep
fibers as well so he's a bit of the walking wounded at the moment (applause) Great lift
that was really smooth from Hollands he comes from about 10 miles down the
road they will be a lot of Hollands fans here so Laurence's three Brits have done it now you
Hollands and Felix that's a great world record must feel pretty good yeah it feels great we
have three of us do it even better shows the Brits stronk about Brian Shawn our last man to go in the
round yeah Brian's gonna get this he's phenomenal but and we're gonna try and push him today I'm
sure we're gonna make him work hard at least so there's more in the tank I got 420 in me all right
so Brian Shaw up next the giant American second at World's Strongest Man in 2010 the devil is
the king really I mean there's a lot of guys that you know that's what you walk into the contest and
ask the other guys you know what are you pulling you know and it's just kind of a way almost in
a way a manhood test it's kind of like well what you know how much can you deadlift it's just the
general question between strongmen and it's you know not very often that we get to do a standard
deadlift with a standard bar and standard plates and just just go for it I learned a lot from world
Strongest Man last year and took a step back and said well you know I'm a second you know I've
always thought I had a lot of room to improve and you know I still think that but you know
so far this year I feel good and you know I'm in shape so we'll see how the contest goes he´s a big
hit with the locals Brian Shaw hard to miss him of course at six foot eight now 412 and a half kilos
that was easy hard to believe you are watching such a heavyweight being just ripped off the
ground with ease Shahalei said he's good for 420 I think Shaw might be good for more 4/20
is on the bar referee Gregor Edmunds they're in the black cowboy hat just to keeping an
eye on the weights and into the bar comes Mark Felix from Blackburn England 45 years old now
amazing really didn't come to strongman until his mid to late 30s take the world
record to 420 it's slow he's got a yes he's got his hips through
the down signal but boy did he have to work for that world record for Felix I
think that is the absolute limit for Mark
Laurence Shahlaei goodness me totally in the zone and he's got to be this is a weight that
may well be all the others certainly extends the world record if he does it to get a world
record on the deadlift one of the absolute kings of strength movements if not the King
rips it quick we just go finish that last section off and he's done it he has done it
the hips come through and unlike powerlifting you are allowed to stall in strongman and Jack
it up the thighs that's exactly what he did there just kept on pulling see
what that weight does to the metal bar 420 kilos Terry Hollands he always rips it quick
superfast off the ground but now I'm afraid for Terry Hollands I
think those injuries have finally caught up with him
well you really couldn't get any more crowd around the strongman here the Expo crowd are
loving this Brian Shaw to hit 420 and stay in the contest with Laurence Shahlaei likes
to roll it in it himself to get over that initial inertia, someand lifters do that
ball flies off the floor goodness me that was better than his for 12 and
a half and Shaw is definitely still in this competition very impressive from Brian Shaw
he is looking good for quite a bit more weight might be six foot eight he's got
the arms of a seven-foot eight man they're so long makes deadlifting all the easier
so in comes Mark Felix hit 420 just he's the first man out at
430 kilos so the bar just keeps going up and up
he was right on the limit at 420 this would be a monumental effort if he hits
this you don't get it at the first time very very rarely to get it at a second call now
that's rooted good effort little wry smile from the old man of the strongman world he
knew he probably wouldn't do that gave it a go anyway Laurence Shahlaei though
the belief is there he looks like a man who believes in himself at 430
one thing about Laurence Shahlaei he is so improved over the last couple of seasons that
sometimes a guy like this just has no inhibitions about weights no barriers as he keeps improving
has never stalled (Applause)
He´s got a try and get up the thighs here he keeps jacking it and checking it get the
hips in yes he's been given it the world record goes to 430 kilos and it's right back at your
Brian Shaw he's wasting no time so he wants this charging in almost forgot to do his belt up there
just using the blue iron mine straps that so many of the top lifters use keeps his
grip strong that's the first time he's really stalled up the thighs but it's an easy enough
there for 30 looks good if you were a betting man now you'd bet on Shaw he looks solid there
the weight did Just drop a little bit before he attacked it again well surely they're talking
about what weight to go to now they've called for 440 Shahlaei has played some games here he's now
pulled out so it's Shaw who goes for another world record to stand alone 440 kilograms 970 pounds
does he have it in him to take the world records again
oh it's stuck and he just didn't have the energy to keep going he did three or four
good attempts up the thighs there but it was absolutely stuck well done indeed to Brian
Shaw but in the end it's a draw for Shahlaei and Shaw with a new world record 430 kilograms