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The stone or stone weight (abbreviation: st.) [1] is an English and British imperial unit of mass equal to 14 avoirdupois pounds (6.35 kg). [ nb 1 ] The stone continues in customary use in the United Kingdom and Ireland for body weight .
Mercantile stone 12 lb L ≈ 5.6 kg Butcher's stone 8 lb ≈ 3.63 kg Sack 26 st = 364 lb ≈ 165 kg The carat was once specified as four grains in the English-speaking world. Some local units in the English dominion were (re-)defined in simple terms of English units, such as the Indian tola of 180 grains. Tod This was an English weight for wool ...
Weight: 113 kilograms (249 lb) dumbbell worth 1 point, 125 kilograms (276 lb) stone press worth 1 point, 175 kilograms (386 lb) log worth 1 point per repetition, 195 kilograms (430 lb) worth 10 points per repetition. Time Limit: 2 minutes #
It is generally considered the greatest and the most impressive stone run of all time. [64] Atlas stones – 5 stones weighing 130–186 kg (287–410 lb) in 19.46 seconds (2014 World's Strongest Man) (world record) [65] Atlas stones – 5 stones weighing 140–200 kg (309–441 lb) in 18.16 seconds (2016 Europe's Strongest Man) (world record) [66]
Among other known ancient Irish stones are the Aughrim Graveyard Stone which weighs 115 kg (254 lb) and meant to be shouldered, the Faha Stones which are a pair weighing 162 kg (357 lb) and 112 kg (247 lb), and the 215 kg (474 lb) Flag of Denn, which is a heavy, almost perfectly rectangular stone associated with strong men of the parish who ...
The definition of units of weight above a pound differed between the customary and the imperial system - the imperial system employed the stone of 14 pounds, the hundredweight of 8 stone [Note 6] and the ton of 2240 pounds (20 hundredweight), while the customary system of units did not employ the stone but has a hundredweight of 100 pounds and ...
The long or imperial hundredweight of 8 stone or 112 pounds (50.80 kg) is defined in the British imperial system. [2] Under both conventions, there are 20 hundredweight in a ton, producing a "short ton" of 2,000 pounds (907.2 kg) and a "long ton" of 2,240 pounds (1,016 kg).
In 2020, Stoltman broke the world record for the 5 Atlas Stones (light set) 100–180 kilograms (220–397 lb), completing them in just 16.01 seconds; he also holds the world record for the heaviest Atlas stone ever lifted over a 1.22 metres (4.0 ft) bar at 286 kilograms (631 lb).