World's Strongest Man

The World’s Strongest Man competition, which was established in 1977, is considered to be a multi-event international competition in strength athletics. It is a global competition held each year by the World Class Events (WCE) at the end of September. The competition aims to determine the strongest man in the world among the strongest candidates in the world.

In this event, competitors from different countries join together to win the world’s strongest man title. This competition works through a point system mechanism. Competitors compete in series of events and are given points based from their performance in each event. The events included in the competition are the parallel stairs (carrying three weights on the stairs), eight turns over-rolling of a tyre, carrying 180 kg of heavy blocks (the walk of lumberman), running with 125 kg in two suitcases, the farmer’s walk and the combined competition of running with an anvil and carrying sacks. Each competition is made up of a number of events in which every individual competition varies to avoid favouritism among the competitors.

Some of the well-recognised world’s Strongest Man title owners are Bill Camay, Jon Pall Sigmarsson and Magnus Ver Magnusson. Others are Bruce Wilhelm Don Rainout, Geoff Capes, Jouko Ahola, Magnus Sammuelsson, Joanne Virtanen and Svend Karlsen. Today’s world strongest man is Marcus Pudzianowski, who became the fourth man to win multiple championships. He won the event competition in 2002, 2003 and 2005.

The World’s Strongest Man athletic competition was created not just for its usual aim of distinguishing the strongest man on earth, but to promote sportsmanship and camaraderie among each and every competitor.