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• Aleksander Aberg
  Aleksander Aberg
  Aleksander Richard "Leks" Aberg was a famous Estonian professional Greco-Roman and free-style wrestling World Champion of the early 20th century...
  
  
• Otto Acron
  Otto Acron
  Otto Acron is an Australian strongman.-Early life:Otto Acron was born 12 May 1935 as Alexander James Alsop in Sydney, Australia to Lilly Elizabeth and James Gess Alsop. He had two brothers, Ken his older and Ian his younger brother. His father worked on the railways as a boilermaker...
  
  
• Jouko Ahola
  Jouko Ahola
  Jouko Ahola is a Finnish strongman and actor. He won the 1997 and 1999 World's Strongest Man, and finished second in 1998. Ahola won the Europe's Strongest Man contest twice in 1998 and 1999, and finished fourth in 1996. Jouko won the World's Strongest Team in 1997 and 1999, and was second in 1998...
  
  
• Bill Anderson (strongman)
• Paul Edward Anderson
  Paul Edward Anderson
  Paul Edward Anderson was a weightlifter, strongman, and powerlifter.- Biography :Anderson was born in Toccoa, Georgia, United States of America....
  
  
• Apollon (strongman)
  Apollon (strongman)
  Appolon , born Louis Uni, was a French strongman, especially famous for his grip strength.Born in Marsillargues, Uni was a friend and protegé of academic and champion of physical education Edmond Desbonnet. Uni appeared in the silent film Mare Nostrum.He died in Evreux.-External links:*...
  
  

• Gerard Benderoth
  Gerard Benderoth
  Gerard Benderoth is an American strongman.He is tall and weighs . He was a New York City Police Officer for over a decade. He took part in the response to the September 11 attacks in 2001 and was at ground zero for 3 days straight recovering bodies...
  
  
• Benedikt Magnússon
  Benedikt Magnússon
  Benedikt Magnússon , known by his nickname "Benni", is a strongman and powerlifter from Iceland.-Strongman and powerlifting:...
  
  
• Raimonds Bergmanis
  Raimonds Bergmanis
  Raimonds Bergmanis is a fomer Olympic weightlifting champion and retired strongman competitor from Latvia....
  
  
• Nick Best
  Nick Best
  Nick Best is an American professional strongman competitor and powerlifter.-Powerlifting:Prior to competing in strongman, Best won the USAPL National Powerlifting Championships in the 125kg class in 1996 and 1997, as well as the WDFEF World Powerlifting Championships in 1996.-Strongman:Best holds...
  
  
• Ryan Bakke
  Ryan Bakke
  Ryan Bakke is an American strongman.He is 6'2" and weighs 285 lbs.-Achievements:* 2006 - Arizona's Strongest Man 2nd* 2007 - Arizona's Strongest Man 1st* 2008 - America's Strongest Man 15th-References:...
  
  
• Jerry Blackwell
  Jerry Blackwell
  Jerry Blackwell was an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name "Crusher" Jerry Blackwell. Blackwell competed in the 1979 World's Strongest Man contest, but withdrew early in the competition due to an injury...
  
  
• Vidas Blekaitis
• Andy Bolton
  Andy Bolton
  Andy Bolton is an English powerlifter and strongman who was born in Dewsbury, Yorkshire. Andy is best known for being the first man to lift a 1,000 lb...
  
  
• Zishe Breitbart
  Zishe Breitbart
  Siegmund Breitbart , also known popularly as Zishe or Sische Breitbart , was a Polish-born circus performer, vaudeville strongman and Jewish folklore hero...
  
  
• Colin Bryce
  Colin Bryce
  Colin Bryce is a former Great Britain Olympic bobsledder and strongman now working as a television presenter and producer...
  
  
• Bybon
  Bybon
  Bybon or Bybon son of Phola was a famous ancient Greek weight lifter. A block of red sandstone weighing 143.5 kg was found at Olympia, with the carved inscription "Bybon son of Phola, has lifted me over [his] head with one hand." The stone has a section carved out as a hand grip.The stone is...
  
  

• Geoff Capes
  Geoff Capes
  Geoffrey Lewis Capes is a former athlete, strongman and professional Highland Games competitor...
  
  
• Cees de Vreugd
  Cees de Vreugd
  Cees de Vreugd, also known as "Kees de Vreugd" was a butcher, strongman and powerlifter from Katwijk, the Netherlands. He finished 3rd at the World's Strongest Man games in 1985....
  
  
• Georges Christen
  Georges Christen
  Georges Christen is a Luxembourgish strongman. He holds several Guinness World Records, including the fastest hot water bottle inflated by lung power. Other records involve train-towing and plane-pulling.-External links:*...
  
  
• Ed Coan
  Ed Coan
  Ed Coan is an American powerlifter. He has been described as "the greatest powerlifter in the history of the sport" and the "powerlifting equivalent of Michael Jordan."-Records:...
  
  
• Franco Columbu
  Franco Columbu
  Franco Columbu is an Italian actor, former bodybuilder and World's Strongest Man competitor.-Bodybuilding:Columbu was born in Ollolai, Sardinia . Starting out his athletic career as a boxer, Columbu progressed into the sport of Olympic Weightlifting, powerlifting and later bodybuilding, winning...
  
  
• Forbes Cowan
  Forbes Cowan
  Forbes Cowan is a former leading Scottish strongman competitor and multiple entrant to the World's Strongest Man...
  
  
• Louis Cyr
  Louis Cyr
  Louis Cyr was a famous Canadian strongman with a career spanning the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His recorded feats, including lifting 500 pounds with one finger and carrying 4,337 pounds on his back, show Cyr to be, according to former International Federation of BodyBuilding & Fitness...
  
  

• Donald Dinnie
  Donald Dinnie
  Donald Dinnie was a Scottish strongman, born at Balnacraig, Birse, near Aboyne, Aberdeenshire. He has been recognized as "The Nineteenth Century's Greatest Athlete"...
  
  
• Jarek Dymek
  Jarek Dymek
  Jarek Dymek is a strongman competitor from Malbork, Poland. He is a training partner of 5 time World's Strongest Man champion Mariusz Pudzianowski. In 2005 Jarek won Europe's Strongest Man, his career best win. Jarek has competed in the World's Strongest Man 8 times, making the finals 5 times. His...
  
  

• Gregor Edmunds
  Gregor Edmunds
  Gregor Edmunds is a Scottish Highland Games competitor and strongman. Gregor is a winner of the World Highland Games Championships, Highlander Challenge, and Scotland's Strongest Man....
  
  

• Mark Felix
  Mark Felix
  Mark Felix is a strongman competitor and regular entrant to the World's Strongest Man competition...
  
  
• Lou Ferrigno
  Lou Ferrigno
  Louis Jude "Lou" Ferrigno is an American actor, fitness trainer/consultant, and retired professional bodybuilder. As a bodybuilder, Ferrigno won an IFBB Mr. America title and two consecutive IFBB Mr. Universe titles, and appeared in the bodybuilding documentary Pumping Iron...
  
  
• Dominic Filiou
  Dominic Filiou
  Dominic Filiou is a Canadian strongman. Filiou is best known for competing in the 2005, 2006, and 2007 World's Strongest Man competitions. In 2005 he finished third in the finals, a career best. In 2006 and 2007 he was eliminated during the qualifying heats...
  
  

• John B. Gagnon
  John B. Gagnon
  John B. Gagnon was a strongman performer in the 1920s. At one time, he claimed the unofficial title of "World's Strongest Man."-World's Strongest Man contest:...
  
  
• Karl Gillingham
  Karl Gillingham
  Karl Gillingham is a Professional Strongman and powerlifter from Minnesota.-Strongman career:...
  
  
• Hugo Girard
  Hugo Girard
  Hugo Girard is a Canadian strongman. Girard is a Strongman Super Series world Champion, a four-time World Muscle Power champion and a six-time Canada's Strongest Man.-Strength career:Prior to his career as a strongman competitor, Girard worked as a bouncer in a popular Quebec City...
  
  
• Hermann Görner
  Hermann Görner
  Hermann Görner, was a famous German strongman. Görner performed in various countries and achieved feats of strength rarely matched to this day, most notably in lifts requiring exceptional gripping strength.-Early years:...
  
  
• Mick Gosling
  Mick Gosling
  Mick Gosling is famous for being the winner of Britain's Strongest Man contest in 2005. He is the brother of fellow strongman and former holder of the title "Britain's Strongest Man", Richard Gosling....
  
  
• Richard Gosling
  Richard Gosling
  Richard Gosling is the winner of Britain's Strongest Man contest in 2003. He currently lives in Cannock, England.-Injury:...
  
  
• Angus Graham (strongman)
  Angus Graham (strongman)
  Angus Graham was a strongman born circa 1812 on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland and died at Habost in the Port of Ness in the year 1896. Throughout life Angus achieved a name for himself as a man of outstanding physical strength. He was widely reported to be the strongest man on Lewis and possibly...
  
  
• Great Antonio
  Great Antonio
  Antonio Barichievich, known as the Great Antonio , was a Croatian-Canadian strongman and eccentric.-Early life:He was born Anton Baričević in Zagreb, Croatia...
  
  
• Joe Greenstein
  Joe Greenstein
  Joseph L. Greenstein, better known as "The Mighty Atom", was a 20th century strongman.Greenstein was born in Suvalk, Poland in 1893. As a child he suffered from respiratory ailments, and at age 14, a team of doctors predicted he would die from tuberculosis...
  
  

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• Georg Hackenschmidt
  Georg Hackenschmidt
  Georg Karl Julius Hackenschmidt was an early 20th-century Estonian strongman and professional wrestler, and the first free-style heavyweight champion of the world. He launched his professional career in Russia and lived most of his life in London, England, where he gained the nickname of 'The...
  
  
• Jarno Hams
  Jarno Hams
  Jarno Hams is a strongman from the Netherlands. He was six times Holland's Strongest Man And participated in the World's Strongest Man in 2002 and 2003, but failed to qualify for the finals both times...
  
  
• Arild Haugen
  Arild Haugen
  Arild "Hulk" Haugen is a strongman and professional boxer from Sirdal, Norway. He currently lives in Sandnes, Rogaland.Haugen stands tall and weighs approximately . He is capable of squatting , a deadlift of , and a bench press of...
  
  
• Lars Hedlund
  Lars Hedlund
  Lars Hedlund is a former strongman from Sweden. Set a world record for bench press in 1979 . He competed in three World's Strongest Man contests...
  
  
• Mark jerrold Henry
• Manfred Hoeberl
  Manfred Hoeberl
  Manfred Hoeberl is a former strongman and Powerlifter who was known as having the largest arms in the world during the early-mid 1990's...
  
  
• Terry Hollands
  Terry Hollands
  Terry Hollands , is one of the world's leading strongman competitors and was Britain's Strongest Man .-Early life:...
  
  

• Marc Iliffe
  Marc Iliffe
  Marc Iliffe was a British strongman famous for being the winner of Britain's Strongest Man contest in 2002.-Career:Iliffe was acknowledged as being extremely dedicated to the sport of strength athletics...
  
  
• Konstiantyn Ilin
  Konstiantyn Ilin
  Kostiantyn Ilin is a leading Ukrainian strongman competitor and entrant to the World's Strongest Man.-Biography:Born in Chernivtsi, Ukraine, Ilin took to strongman competition relatively late at the age of 30...
  
  

• Louis-Philippe Jean
  Louis-Philippe Jean
  Louis-Phillipe Jean is a Canadian strongman competitor and entrant to the World's Strongest Man competition on multiple occasions.-Strongman career:...
  
  
• Nathan Jones (wrestler)
  Nathan Jones (wrestler)
  Nathan Boyce Jones is an Australian actor, powerlifting champion, strongman, and retired professional wrestler...
  
  
• Milan Jovanović (Powerlifting)
  Milan Jovanovic (Powerlifting)
  Milan "Strongman" Jovanović is a former WPA and GPC world powerlifting champion and a strongman competitor. He is sometimes known by the nickname Ribcracker. He is also a writer and blogger.-Sporting career:...
  
  

• Svend Karlsen
  Svend Karlsen
  Svend Karlsen is a former Norwegian strongman, powerlifter, and IFBB professional bodybuilder.-Powerlifting/Bodybuilding:...
  
  
• Ervin Katona
  Ervin Katona
  Ervin Katona, is a leading Serbian strongman competitor and regular entrant to the World's Strongest Man competition.- Biography :...
  
  
• Bill Kazmaier
  Bill Kazmaier
  Bill Kazmaier is a former powerlifter, strongman and professional wrestler from the United States. He is widely considered to be one of the all-time greatest competitors in strength competitions...
  
  
• Riku Kiri
  Riku Kiri
  Riku Kiri is a Finnish sportsman, best known for competing in the World's Strongest Man competition, narrowly missing out on capturing the title on more than one occasion...
  
  
• Alexander Klyushev
  Alexander Klyushev
  Alexander Klyushev is a leading strongman competitor and entrant to the World's Strongest Man competition.-Early life and career:...
  
  
• Mikhail Koklyaev
  Mikhail Koklyaev
  Mikhail Koklyaev is a six-time Russian National Weightlifting champion, strongman competitor and powerlifter.He was born in 1978 in Chelyabinsk, Russia...
  
  

• Lars Rørbakken
  Lars Rørbakken
  Lars Rørbakken is a strongman and armwrestler from Trengereid outside Bergen, Norway.-Armwrestling:- External links :* * *...
  
  
• Jimmy Laureys
  Jimmy Laureys
  Jimmy Laureys is a Belgian powerlifter and strongman competitor.-Biography:Jimmy was known as king kong at school due to his size. He began training seriously at the age of 15 and by 17 was powerlifting...
  
  
• Signor Lawanda
  Signor Lawanda
  Signor Lawanda born Hugh David Evans, was a nineteenth-century circus performer and strongman renowned for his strength.-Biography:...
  
  
• Georg Lurich
  Georg Lurich
  Georg Lurich was a Estonian Greco-Roman wrestler and strongman of the early 20th century. Lurich was also the trainer of fellow countryman wrestler and weightlifter Georg Hackenschmidt and Aleksander Aberg.-Early life:...
  
  

• Angus MacAskill
  Angus MacAskill
  Angus Mòr MacAskill, frequently referred to as Giant MacAskill or Black Angus , was a Scottish-Canadian giant, and is the world's largest "true" giant...
  
  
• Magnús Ver Magnússon
  Magnús Ver Magnússon
  Magnús Ver Magnússon is a former powerlifter and strongman competitor from Egilsstaðir, Iceland. Magnus won the title of World's Strongest Man four times ....
  
  
• Jimmy Marku
  Jimmy Marku
  Jimmy Marku is an Albanian-born British strongman competitor.-Early life:Jimmy Marku was born 27 August 1974 in Albania...
  
  
• Jesse Marunde
  Jesse Marunde
  Jesse Marunde was an American strongman athlete who placed second in the 2005 World's Strongest Man competition....
  
  
• John Matuszak
  John Matuszak
  John Daniel "Tooz" Matuszak was an American football defensive lineman in the National Football League who later became an actor. He was the first draft pick of 1973 and played most of his career with the Oakland Raiders until he retired after winning his second Super Bowl in 1981...
  
  
• Tarmo Mitt
  Tarmo Mitt
  Tarmo Mitt is a professional strongman competitor and regular entrant to the World's Strongest Man competition...
  
  
• Joseph Montferrand
  Joseph Montferrand
  Joseph "Jos" Montferrand was a French-Canadian logger, strong man and hero of the working man, who was the inspiration for the legendary Ottawa Valley figure Big Joe Mufferaw....
  
  
• Andrus Murumets
  Andrus Murumets
  Andrus Murumets 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...
  
  

• Kevin Nee
  Kevin Nee
  Kevin Nee is an American professional Strongman athlete. He is notable as being the youngest person ever to reach the finals in the World's Strongest Man in 2007 at age 21....
  
  

• Brian Oldfield
  Brian Oldfield
  Brian Oldfield is a former American athlete and personality of the 1970s and early 1980s. A standout shot putter, Oldfield is credited with making the rotational technique popular. With his "Oldfield spin," he set the indoor and outdoor world records in the sport many times...
  
  
• Travis Ortmayer
  Travis Ortmayer
  Travis Ortmayer is an American Professional Strongman athlete from Cypress, Texas. Travis is the owner of Athletic Nation gym...
  
  
• Sławomir Orzeł
• David Ostlund
  David Ostlund
  David Ostlund is an American Professional Strongman athlete from Minneapolis, Minnesota. He grew up in Edina, Minnesota and attended Edina High School. Ostlund was a member of the Edina track and field team and competed in the shot put and discus events...
  
  

• Ted van der Parre
  Ted van der Parre
  Ted van der Parre is a former strongman from the Netherlands who won the World's Strongest Man contest in 1992 and was 4th in 1991. He also participated in 1994 when he finished 8th, having to drop out after the second event due to a calf injury...
  
  
• Ken Patera
  Ken Patera
  Ken Patera is a former professional wrestler, Olympic weightlifter, and Strongman competitor.-Weightlifting/Strongman career:Patera is a former Olympic weightlifter and American powerlifter...
  
  
• Jessen Paulin
  Jessen Paulin
  Jessen Paulin is a Canadian Strongman. A resident of Gatineau, Quebec, Paulin is known for being a multiple-Quebec's Strongest Man champion and a two-time Canada's Strongest Man in 2005 and 2006 succeeding, multiple-time champion and former World Champion Hugo Girard who was in rehabilitation...
  
  
• Igor Pedan
  Igor Pedan
  Igor Pedan is a Russian strongman who is best known for competing in the IFSA Strongman World Championships. He won the title Absolute Champion of Russia in 2004. Igor was born in Ukraine, currently he resides in Moscow, and competes for Russia. He won the 3rd competition of the United Strongman...
  
  
• Johnny Perry
  Johnny Perry
  Johnny Wade Perry Jr. was a professional strongman competitor from Zebulon, North Carolina. Perry is best known for finishing fourth in the finals in the 2002 World's Strongest Man competition.-Death:...
  
  
• Stefán Sölvi Pétursson
  Stefán Sölvi Pétursson
  Stefán Sölvi Pétursson is a leading strongman competitor and entrant to the World's Strongest Man competition.-Career:...
  
  
• Phil Pfister
  Phil Pfister
  Phil Pfister , is a leading American strongman competitor, winning the 2006 Met-Rx World's Strongest Man competition and its $41,000 grand prize on September 23, 2006 in Sanya, China. He is the first American to win since Bill Kazmaier in 1982...
  
  
• Ivan Poddubny
  Ivan Poddubny
  Ivan Maximovich Poddubny also spelled Piddubny was a Russian Empire and Soviet wrestler of Ukrainian Cossack descent. He began his sports career around 1900 and his career lasted for about forty years....
  
  
• Derek Poundstone
  Derek Poundstone
  Derek Poundstone Derek Poundstone Derek Poundstone (born on September 28, 1981, 6'1" (1,85m), 341 lb is an American professional strongman athlete from Waterbury, Connecticut....
  
  
• Mariusz Pudzianowski
  Mariusz Pudzianowski
  Mariusz Zbigniew Pudzianowski is a Polish former strongman and current mixed martial artist...
  
  
• Ivan Putski
  Ivan Putski
  Józef Bednarski , is a Polish former professional wrestler and bodybuilder. He is known by the ring name Ivan Putski and was given the nicknames "The Polish Hammer" and "Polish Power"....
  
  

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• Flemming Rasmussen (strongman)
  Flemming Rasmussen (strongman)
  Flemming Rasmussen is a former strongman competitor and powerlifter from Denmark. He competed in the World's Strongest Man contest several times, finishing in 5th place in 1995, 4th in 1996, and 2nd in 1997...
  
  
• Jamie Reeves
  Jamie Reeves
  Jamie Reeves is a former coal miner, strongman and professional wrestler. As a strongman, he won the 1989 World's Strongest Man, was World Muscle Power champion, and also had numerous other titles including Europe's Strongest Man and Britain's Strongest Man...
  
  
• Don Reinhoudt
  Don Reinhoudt
  Don Reinhoudt is a powerlifter and strongman from Brocton, New York. After obtaining a degree in finance, Don worked as an accountant and a youth worker during his professional career.-Athletics:...
  
  
• Joe Rollino
  Joe Rollino
  Joseph "Joe" Rollino was a decorated World War II veteran, weightlifter, and strongman. The son of Italian immigrants, Rollino dubbed himself the world's strongest man in the 1920s, moving with his back during the prime of his career.-Early life and career:Rollino was born and raised in Coney...
  
  
• Glenn Ross
  Glenn Ross
  Glenn Ross known by his nickname "Big Daddy", is a Northern Irish International Strongman and Powerlifter who has represented Ireland and the UK in several World's Strongest Man competitions and various World Grand Prix and European Team competitions...
  
  

• Darren Sadler
  Darren Sadler
  Darren Sadler was a British strongman competitor, winner of the World Strongman Challenge in the under 105 kg category, and notable for being a repeat competitor at the World's Strongest Man despite his comparatively small stature.-Early life:Darren Sadler was born on 22 March 1980 in...
  
  
• Magnus Samuelsson
  Magnus Samuelsson
  Magnus Samuelsson , is a Swedish strongman and winner of the 1998 World's Strongest Man contest in Morocco...
  
  
• Eugen Sandow
  Eugen Sandow
  Eugen Sandow , born Friedrich Wilhelm Müller, was a Prussian pioneering bodybuilder in the 19th century and is often referred to as the "Father of Modern Bodybuilding".-Early life:...
  
  
• Žydrūnas Savickas
  Žydrunas Savickas
  Žydrūnas Savickas is a professional strongman and is widely considered one of the all-time greatest athletes in the history of the sport...
  
  
• Arthur Saxon
  Arthur Saxon
  Arthur Saxon , born Arthur Hennig and nicknamed "The Iron-Master", was a strongman and circus performer from the late 19th century into the early 20th century...
  
  
• Laurence Shahlaei
  Laurence Shahlaei
  Laurence Shahlaei is a British strongman competitor, winner of the England's Strongest Man title at 2009 and repeat competitor at the World's Strongest Man.-Early life:...
  
  
• Brian Shaw (strongman)
  Brian Shaw (strongman)
  Brian Shaw is a professional strongman competitor and winner of the 2011 World's Strongest Man competition.-Early life:...
  
  
• Jón Páll Sigmarsson
  Jón Páll Sigmarsson
  Jón Páll Sigmarsson was a strongman, a powerlifter , and a bodybuilder from Iceland who won the World's Strongest Man Competition four times . In 1984 Jón won the Icelandic bodybuilding title in the +90 kg. class...
  
  
• Manjit Singh (strongman)
  Manjit Singh (strongman)
  Manjit Singh is a strongman originally from India, who moved to Leicestershire in 1977. He holds a number of Guinness World Records for feats of strength concerned with pulling large obstacles...
  
  
• Richard Skog
  Richard Skog
  Henning Nikolai Isdahl alias Richard Skog weighs 170 kilograms and is a strongman competitor from Norway. Before life as strongman he was part of the Norwegian Armed Forces. He has been a part of the World's Strongest Man competition for 4 straight years in 2007-2010, but has yet to qualify for...
  
  

• Gary Taylor (strongman)
  Gary Taylor (strongman)
  Gary Taylor is a former strongman competitor, Olympic Weightlifter, powerlifter and bodybuilder from Wales.-Strength sports:...
  
  
• Oli Thompson
  Oli Thompson
  Oli Thompson made his MMA debut on 3 Feb 2009, defeating Ashley Pollard by a second round arm triangle choke. He has continued to fight since then, On 26 March 2011, after amassing a record of 7-2-0, with his only losses coming to future UFC heavyweight Rob Broughton and former UFC fighter Joe...
  
  
• Stojan Todorchev
  Stojan Todorchev
  Stojan Todorchev is a leading strongman competitor and entrant to the World's Strongest Man competition.- Biography :...
  
  
• Tom Magee
  Tom Magee
  Tom Magee is a former Canadian powerlifter and strongman competitor from Winnipeg, Canada.-Strongman/Powerlifting:Tom was the 1982 IPF World Powerlifting Champion in the +125kg division....
  
  
• Warren Lincoln Travis
  Warren Lincoln Travis
  Warren Lincoln Travis was the first famous strongman in the United States and a world champion back and hip lifter, who performed feats of strength on Coney Island in the first quarter of the 20th century.-Feats of strength:...
  
  

• Berend Veneberg
  Berend Veneberg
  Berend Veneberg is a former strongman from the Netherlands. He finished 5th at the World's Strongest Man games in 1993, 9th in 1998, 6th in 1999, 1st at Europe's Strongest Man in 2000 and won Holland's Strongest Man 7 times.- Biography :Veneberg was born in Den Ham, Overijssel...
  
  
• Vasyl Virastyuk
  Vasyl Virastyuk
  Vasyl Virastyuk , is a strongman competitor from Ukraine.Vasyl Virastyuk competed in the finals of the World's Strongest Man contest in 2003 and 2004. He finished third in 2003 behind then-defending champion Mariusz Pudzianowski and runner-up Zydrunas Savickas...
  
  
• Janne Virtanen
  Janne Virtanen
  Janne Virtanen is a strongman from Espoo, Finland. Janne earns his living as a carpenter in Finland....
  
  

• Sebastian Wenta
  Sebastian Wenta
  Sebastian Wenta is a shot putter, strongman and Highland Games competitor from Poland. Wenta's athletic career started with volleyball, and he eventually moved onto the shot put and discus throw. He began competing in strongman in 2005 and has quickly risen through the ranks...
  
  
• Marshall White
  Marshall White
  Marshall White is an American Professional Strongman athlete from Pagosa Springs, Colorado. Marshall was born in Houston, Texas and now lives in Pagosa Springs, Colorado with his wife Rachel, whom he married in 2005...
  
  
• Martin Wildauer
  Martin Wildauer
  Martin Wildauer is a leading Austrian strongman competitor and entrant to the World's Strongest Man competition.-Biography:...
  
  
• Bruce Wilhelm
  Bruce Wilhelm
  Bruce Wilhelm is a weightlifter and strongman from the United States. He is a two-time winner of the World's Strongest Man competition in 1977 and 1978 and the author of numerous strength-related articles and books. He was a member of the executive board of the United States Olympic Committee...
  
  
• Ab Wolders
  Ab Wolders
  Ab Wolders is a former strongman and world champion Powerlifter from the Netherlands. He was runner-up at the World's Strongest Man competition on two occasions, placing second to Jón Páll Sigmarsson in 1984 and to Jamie Reeves in 1989...
  
  
• Simon Wulfse
  Simon Wulfse
  Simon Wulfse is a strongman from the Netherlands. He finished 3rd at the World's Strongest Man games in 1983. Simon won the Europe's Strongest Man title in 1983, his career best finish. Simon finished 1st in Holland's Strongest Man in 1982, and 3rd in 1984. Simon also finished 3rd at the 1986 and...
  
  

• Bob Young (American football)
  Bob Young (American football)
  Robert Allen Young was an American football offensive guard who played 16 seasons in the National Football League, mainly for the St. Louis Cardinals, where he and other Cardinal offensive linemen are credited with introducing modern weightlifting/powerlifting into the training regime of the NFL....
  
  

• Wout Zijlstra
  Wout Zijlstra
  Wout Zijlstra is a former strongman and Highland Games athlete from the Netherlands. He competed in the World's Strongest Man competition on two occasions.- Biography :...
  
  

See also

• List of strongman competitions
• List of male professional bodybuilders
• List of female bodybuilders