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One of the most legendary moments of the competitions came in 2015 when Iceland's Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson surpassed the historical 1,000 years old Viking ship mast (Ormrinn langi) feat of strength by carrying a 650 kg (1,433 lb), 10 metres (33 ft) long, 1.41 metres (4 ft 8 in) circumference Viking ship mast on his back for 5 steps in −20 ...
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As a competitive strongman, Iceland's Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson has won 60 national and international competitions out of 105 he did from 2009. 58 of them as an individual competitor while the remaining 2 as a team competitor at World's Strongest Team competition.
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".
During his illustrious career, Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson of Iceland set more than 100 world records and numerous feats of strength across every single strongman event, making him the most prolific record breaker of all time, in all of strength sports. Below list is a summary of some of those world records and his PRs.
On September 13, 2020, Rauno broke the 400 kg Deadlift (standard bar) for repetitions world record with 6 reps under World's Ultimate Strongman Feats of Strength series. [7] Along with Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson and Eddie Hall , Rauno is also one of only a handful of men who has deadlifted 1,000 lbs (453.5 kg) or more, quite a few times. [ 8 ]
Other feats performed by Farrugia involve him bending steel objects, ripping telephone directories and decks of cards in half and lifting gas cylinders with his pinky fingers. [10] In 2016 Farrugia teamed up with a veteran performing strongman called Paul "Mr. Cool" Grima , together they created the strongman team called 'Tony & Cool'.
After his record-breaking lift, Clark often referred to himself as the World's Strongest Man, and toured for a time performing feats of strength. On one occasion he pushed a 6,000 lb (2,700 kg) elephant, in a heavy-duty wheelbarrow, across the floor in a strongman competition in Japan.