List of strongmen
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Zydrunas Savickas, the winner of many world championships, competing in 2007. He has deadlifted a barbell loaded with eight Hummer tyres, weighing over 1000 pounds.[1]
This list of strongmen is a list of people who are renowned for their feats of strength.
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Adverts by Charles Atlas were common in American pulp magazines. This one appeared in Weird Tales in 1941.
- Aleksander Aberg
- Otto Acron
- Jouko Ahola
- Bill Anderson (strongman)
- Paul Anderson
- Apollon (strongman)
- Charles Atlas — known as the "world's most perfectly developed man", his feats included bending iron bars and pulling a train with his bare hands.[2]
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- Donald Dinnie
- Jarek Dymek
- Daniel Fajuyitan
- Mills Darden
- Davis Diley
- Derek DeVaughn
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Milo of Croton
- Angus MacAskill
- Magnús Ver Magnússon
- Benedikt Magnússon
- Jimmy Marku
- Benjamin Marotte
- Jesse Marunde
- John Matuszak
- Milo of Croton — ancient Greek athlete, reputed to have carried a bull on his shoulders by practicing daily since it was a calf. He saved Pythagoras by supporting the roof of a hall when a pillar collapsed.
- Tarmo Mitt
- Joseph Montferrand
- Andrus Murumets
- Tom Magee
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Eugen Sandow
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See also
References
- 1 2 Randall J. Strossen (March 4, 2012), Mike Jenkins Wins the Arnold Strongman, IronMind
- ↑ Meghan McCarthy (2007), Strong Man: The Story of Charles Atlas, A.A. Knopf, ISBN 9780375829406
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