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Siegmund Breitbart (22 February 1893 – 12 October 1925), also known popularly as Zishe or Sische Breitbart (Yiddish: זישע ברייטבאַרט), was a Polish-born circus performer, vaudeville strongman and Jewish folklore hero.
Bar bending or iron bending is a display of physical strength derived from early circus strongman performers, which was used in a sporting context in strength competitions such as the World's Strongest Man. [1]
Hafþór's international accolades and winning everything there is in the sport cemented his legacy as one of the greatest strongmen of all time, [2] and due to breaking 100+ world records in various static lifts and feats displaying brute strength, many analysts and strongman experts regard him as "the strongest man to have ever walked the earth".
Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson is finally the mightiest man on earth. Björnsson officially won the 2018 World's Strongest Man competition on Sunday in the Philippines, officially becoming the World ...
Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson at the Arnold Strongman Classic in 2017. Patrik Baboumian; Gerrit Badenhorst; William Bankier; Antonio Barichievich (1925–2003), also known as the Great Antonio, Croatian-Canadian strongman, professional wrestler and eccentric
The Arnold Strongman Classic is an annual competition featuring strength athletes from all over the world, determining who is the Strongest Man in the World. Created by Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jim Lorimer and Terry Todd, it is an offshoot of the Arnold Sports Festival which takes place annually in Columbus, Ohio, USA.
Africa Stone carry – 175 kg (386 lb) for 110 metres (2000 World's Strongest Man - Group 5) (World Record) Block carry – 180 kg (397 lb) for 80 metres 2002 Europe's Strongest Man (World Record) Fridge carry (super yoke) – 410 kg (904 lb) for 20 metres in 15.29 seconds (2005 World's Strongest Man)
He was featured five times in Ripley's Believe It Or Not [4] and in the 1976 Guinness Book of World Records. [5] Two of Greenstein's feats included biting through an iron nail and bending iron horseshoes by hand. An iron nail and iron horseshoes are on display at the Weightlifting Hall of Fame in York, Pennsylvania.