One of the brightest prospects in Strongman, Stefán Sölvi Pétursson, agreed to answer some questions, and this it what he had to say. How has 2011 been for you so far? 2011 has been good so far training wise. I have been hitting pb’s on few events so things are looking great. You are best [...]
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Interview with Stefán Sölvi Pétursson
Posted in Interviews, Stefan Solvi Petersson, tagged Stefan Solvi Petersson, World's Strongest Man on March 3, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Interview with Brian Shaw
Posted in Brian Shaw, Interviews, tagged Brian Shaw, World's Strongest Man on February 2, 2011 | 5 Comments »
28 year old Brian Shaw burst onto the Strongman scene in 2005 and made it to the World’s Strongest Man heats in 2008. In 2009 he came 3rd in the final and just last year he came 2nd to Zyrdunas Savickas. At 6′ 8″ he’s hard to miss, but Brian is as friendly as he [...]
What Mariusz Pudzianowski was doing this time last year – singing!
Posted in Mariusz Pudzianowski, tagged Mariusz Pudzianowski, World's Strongest Man on January 27, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The title of this blog post is no lie – this time last year Mariusz Pudzianowski was in the Polish version of Just The Two of Us which is a UK originating show that pairs a famous singer with another celebrity not from the world of music and they perform duets voted for by the [...]
World’s Strongest Man 2010 Final – Analysis
Posted in Analysis, Brian Shaw, Derek Poundstone, Ervin Katona, Final, Jason Bergmann, Mikhail "Misha" Koklyaev, Nick Best, Stefan Solvi Petersson, Terry Hollands, Travis Ortmayer, World's Strongest Man 2010, Zydrunas Savickas, tagged World's Strongest Man, World's Strongest Man 2010, World's Strongest Man 2010 Results on January 18, 2011 | 2 Comments »
As I did last year, I am going to look a little more closely at the points that were earned in this year’s World Strongest Man Final and see what we can gleem from that. So welcome aboard the geek train as we do the 2010 World’s Strongest Man Final ‘by numbers’! As always, click [...]
This is why Mariusz Pudzianowski was not at World’s Strongest Man 2010
Posted in Mariusz Pudzianowski, MMA, Youtube, tagged Mariusz Pudzianowski, MMA on January 8, 2011 | 9 Comments »
There have been many people coming to this blog after searching for an answer as to why 5 time WSM winner Mariusz Pudzianowski was not competing this year. Back in March I wrote a post reporting that Pudzianowski would be concentrating on his Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) career instead. Mariusz won his first fight against Marcin Najman [...]
World’s Strongest Man 2010 – The Final
Posted in Brian Shaw, Derek Poundstone, Ervin Katona, Final, Jason Bergmann, Mikhail "Misha" Koklyaev, Nick Best, Stefan Solvi Petersson, Terry Hollands, Travis Ortmayer, World's Strongest Man 2010, Zydrunas Savickas, tagged World's Strongest Man, World's Strongest Man 2010, World's Strongest Man 2010 Final, World's Strongest Man 2010 Results on January 7, 2011 | 4 Comments »
World’s Strongest Man (WSM) 2010 was the first year without the legendary Mariusz Pudzianowski since 2001, and his absence then was because he was in prison for assault. For anyone who has watched WSM over then last decade you’ll know that Pudzianowski has been the man to beat, winning it a record breaking 5 times. Last [...]
World’s Strongest Man 2010 Winner
Posted in Brian Shaw, Derek Poundstone, Ervin Katona, Final, Jason Bergmann, Mikhail "Misha" Koklyaev, Nick Best, Stefan Solvi Petersson, Terry Hollands, Travis Ortmayer, World's Strongest Man 2010, Zydrunas Savickas, tagged World's Strongest Man, World's Strongest Man 2010, World's Strongest Man 2010 Winner, Zydrunas Savickas on December 31, 2010 | 6 Comments »
I have the inlaws arriving in a matter of minutes so a detailed update will come at a later date. For now it’s a big congratulations to Zydrunas Savickas for winning World’s Strongest Man 2010 and repeating the success of last year. Huge congratulations to Brian Shaw who came in second and on the same [...]
World’s Strongest Man 2010 Qualifiers: Heat 5
Posted in Christian Savoie, Competitors, Dave Ostlund, Heats, Jason Bergmann, Mark Westaby, Mikhail "Misha" Koklyaev, Rob Frampton, World's Strongest Man 2010, tagged World's Strongest Man, World's Strongest Man 2010, World's Strongest Man 2010 Results, World's Strongest Man Results on December 31, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Heat 5 saw UK’s own Rob Frampton, originally just a reserve, take the place of Johannes Arsjo and become part of the last group of 6 athletes vying for qualification to this year’s final. Rob Frampton Jason Bergmann Mikhail Koklyaev Dave Ostlund Christian Savoie Mark Westaby Speaking of Westaby, he’s the oldest man in the [...]
World’s Strongest Man 2010 Qualifiers: Heat 4
Posted in Agris Kazelniks, Heats, Laurence Shahlaei, Louis-Philippe Jean, Nick Best, Warrick Brant, World's Strongest Man 2010, Zydrunas Savickas, tagged World's Strongest Man, World's Strongest Man 2010, World's Strongest Man 2010 Results, World's Strongest Man Results on December 30, 2010 | 2 Comments »
The 6 athletes competing in heat 4 were as follows: Nick Best Warrick Brant Louis-Philippe Jean Agris Kazelniks Zydrunas Savickas Laurence Shahlaei Nick Best is someone I’d heard about, especially in the Arnold Strongman Classic, but never seen perform – this was about to be rectified. In fact, he set the fastest time in the [...]
World’s Strongest Man 2010 Qualifiers: Heat 3
Posted in Darren Sadler, Ervin Katona, Heats, Janusz Kulaga, Kostiantyn Ilin, Travis Ortmayer, Vytautas Lalas, World's Strongest Man 2010, tagged World's Strongest Man, World's Strongest Man 2010, World's Strongest Man 2010 Results, World's Strongest Man Results on December 29, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Here we are at the 3rd heat of the 2010 World’s Stronngest Man qualifiers and the group consists of these 6 athletes: Kostiantyn Ilin Ervin Katona Janusz Kulaga Vytautas Lalas Travis Ortmayer Darren Sadler I’m a huge fan of Travis Ortmayer so I was very much looking forward to seeing this heat. Along with Derek [...]
