In fairy tales, legends and epics, the main characters are often heroes. But it turns out that they exist not only in fairy tales. They are among us too. Who are these heroes? IN different time for many centuries lived the most strong people planets (for their time). Today, it is impossible to give a definite answer to the question of who is the strongest person in the world. Let's take a look at who is vying for this title.
Zydrunas Savickas - 2-time world champion
At the World's Strongest Man tournaments in 2009 and 2010, the winner was a resident of Lithuania. Since the age of 15, he has been involved in sports that require strength training.
He has several records to his credit:
- weighing 425.5 kilograms;
- lying push-ups with a weight of 285.5 kilograms;
- dragging 462 kilograms;
- lifting 1090 kilograms.
Winners of recent competitions
In 2011 and 2013, first place in the competition "The Most strong man world" was won by the American Brian Shaw. In 2012, this title was received by the Pole Christoph Radzikowski.
80 records of Vasily Alekseev
The Soviet weightlifter Vasily Ivanovich Alekseev, who lived for 69 years, is often called the strongest man on Earth. He has 80 world records in his arsenal. Vasily Alekseev - Olympic medalist in 1972 and 1976, world, European and USSR champion.
Vasily Virastyuk - the strongest man in the world 2004
The title of the strongest may well deservedly belong to the Ukrainian Vasily Virastyuk. In 2003, he won third place in the World's Strongest Man tournament, and in 2004 he became a prize-winner of this competition. He won international all-around strength competitions. Vasily Virastyuk pulled 7 cars with a total weight of 11 tons over a distance of 25 meters and five connected tram cars that weigh 101.5 tons.
Records of Dmitry Khaladzhi
Ukrainian Dmitry Khaladzhi set several records, which were included in the Guinness Book. He was distinguished by great strength even as a child. At the age of 17, Dmitry could lift cars, break iron chains, bend horseshoes and drive nails with his hands. Thanks to his strength, the Ukrainian hero repeatedly acted as a rescuer. He pulled victims out of emergency vehicles by bending the door, hood and engine. Dmitry Khaladzhi made his first record in the Moscow circus, dedicating it to Donbass coal miners. The hero lifted a 152-kilogram stone, processed in the form of a coal block, over his head and broke the record achieved back in the 6th century BC by the ancient athlete Bibon. He lifted a 143-kilogram stone above his head. Dmitry's second record was called "Devil's Forge". In this number, the hero lies down on nails and 3 concrete blocks are placed on his chest. These blocks are then broken down by assistants. Dmitry Khaladzhi is different not only iron force, but also with an iron will. Having received significant burns in childhood, he underwent 8 operations and 12. Below you will see a photo of the strongest man.
Yuri Vlasov - 4-time world champion
Another Ukrainian strongman, Yuri Petrovich Vlasov, was fond of lifting weights since childhood. He set 31 world records and 41 records. In addition, Yuri Vlasov is a 4-time world champion, 6-time European champion, 5-time USSR champion and 1960 Olympic champion. He won these titles for 7 years in a row. And at the Olympic Games in Tokyo he became second, which led to Vlasov’s departure from the sport. The Ukrainian hero lifted a weight weighing 172 kilograms in the snatch, 215 kilograms in the clean and jerk, and 199 kilograms in the bench press.
Strong men Anthony Clark and John Wooten
Filipino Anthony Clark, who squatted 363 kilograms, is also called the strongest man. John Wooten from Massachusetts also claims the title of "World's Strongest Man." He pulled a boat against the current, a train weighing 280 tons and an elephant, and held 2 planes.
John Poltrat - a man who survived quartering
The title “The Strongest Man on the Planet” may deservedly belong to John Poltrat. This strong man, who was quartered, was able to survive by holding his horses.
Alexander Zass - another hero
The strongest woman
American Jen Suffolk Todd is considered the very world. She lifted 453 kilograms.
Physically strong people have always attracted everyone's attention and aroused admiration. For girls it is the ideal of a real and unique man, for guys it is an object of worthy imitation, for the elderly it is an irreplaceable assistant and protector. In our article we will try to figure out who is the strongest person in the world.
We present to your attention the TOP 10 strongest people on the planet.
10th place. Becca Swenson
It’s hard to classify this woman as one of the weaker sex of humanity, because she can easily cope with several adults and strong men. The American athlete has long held the proud title of “the most Strong woman planets." She holds many powerlifting records, including world ones. It’s quite hard to believe that she was able to handle a weight that many men cannot lift. However, more about everything.
In 1996, Becca began bodybuilding, and later realized that she wanted to devote herself to powerlifting. As subsequent events showed, this choice turned out to be more than correct. In 2002, the girl already demonstrated her abilities with might and main at the “strongest woman” competition.
Weighing 110 kg and height 1 meter 78 cm, Becca broke the record. After all, she managed to lift a barbell weighing 387 kg in the squat, 310 kg in the deadlift, and 270 kg in the bench press.
Now the woman is well over 30, but she actively continues to do her favorite thing.
9th place. Mark Henry
This man is also worthy of the title of "the strongest man in the world." Mark Henry is a powerlifter, weightlifter, wrestler, Olympic competitor and film actor. He continues to do what he loves to this day - conquering previously unattainable peaks.
In 1992, Mark took 10th place in Olympic Games in weightlifting competitions. Four years later he tried his hand again, but only reached 14th place. The weightlifter won the Pan American Games silver medal.
In 2002, Mark defeated Randy Orton to become the new heavyweight champion. The World's Strongest Man would later defend his title several times against Big Show. Their last fight ended with Henry being disqualified for hitting his opponent in the groin. After some time, Daniel Bryan challenged him to a fight, but Mark again proved unshakable and won the title. In 2011, Henry lost in a fight with Big Show, and the championship title went to his opponent.
8th place. Jon Paul Sigmarsson
Jon Paul Sigmarsson has been awarded the title of "World's Strongest Man" four times. The photo of this hero proves how long he had to train to achieve such a result.
At the beginning, Sigmarsson devoted himself to powerlifting and bodybuilding, and already in 1984 he became the Icelandic bodybuilding champion. The strongman won several European competitions. His records: bench press - 222.5 kg, squat - 357.5 kg.
In 1983, the already famous bodybuilder was invited to participate in the World’s Strongest Man competition. Sigmarsson agreed and immediately took second place. The next participation brought him the desired and more than deserved victory. After several defeats in 1986, Sigmarsson again won the title of “strongest man in the world” by lifting a 495 kg weight.
7th place. Bruce Wilhelm
In addition to the title of “the world's strongest man ever,” Bruce is the author of numerous books on weightlifting. Wilhelm also won the World's Strongest Man tournament twice, was on the Anti-Doping Committee, the Athlete Advisory Council, and was also a member of the executive board of the US Olympic Committee.
Bruce studied at Fremont School, where he was seriously involved in athletics. While still a teenager, he became a shot put champion. Bruce then studied at Stanford University, where he trained in wrestling, discus throwing and shot put.
In 1975, Wilhelm became the US weightlifting champion and also won a silver medal at the Pan American Games. In 1976 he took 5th place at the Montreal Olympics.
In 1977 and 1978, Bruce became the deserved World's Strongest Man champion.
6th place. Yuko Ahola
Yuko holds world records in Hercules hold - 197 kg, 45.7 s and in "Atlas Stones" - 215 kg. Also in 1998 and 1999, he was recognized as Europe's Strongest Man.
Yuko won the World's Strongest Man for the first time in 1997. After this, he was able to defend the championship title in 1998.
Now Yuko can sometimes be found among the members of the World’s Strongest Man judges’ commission and in films.
5th place. Benedikt Magnusson
The strongest man in the world, whose photo we will provide below, set an incredible record in the deadlift in 2011 - 460 kg. Benedict is pretty for a long time dreamed of breaking the record of the famous strongman Andy Balton, and finally his dream came true.
The future record holder started in a regular gym at the age of 16. Even then, his coach saw in him the ability to deadlift. Benedict started with a weight of 120 kg, and after a couple of days he reached the mark of 180 kg with own weight at 140 kg.
In 2003, Benedict took 10th place at the World Powerlifting Championships. In 2005 he finished sixth at the WPO European Semi-Finals in Finland.
4th place. Brian Shaw
The most powerful people in the world, pictures of which we provided in our article, as a rule, began to show great promise back in childhood. This also applies to the famous Ryan Shaw, a native of the United States of America.
The boy grew up quite strong, and by the end of school his weight reached 110 kg and height - 2 meters. At the same time, he loved to play water sports and basketball.
Later, the young man realized that he had a craving for lifting heavy objects, which is why he decided to devote his entire life to this hobby.
In 2009, he took 3rd place in World's Strongest Man, and in 2010, Brian became second. Exactly a year later, Shaw defeated Savickas himself and took the champion title from him. In 2012, Brian lost ground, but to In 2013, he again won the coveted title.
3rd place. Vasily Virastyuk
Vasily is a native of Ukraine. He studied at a technical school physical culture in Ivano-Frankivsk. Having finished educational institution, the future record holder became an athletics coach.
Until 2000, he was engaged in shot put. During this time, Vasily was awarded the title “Honored Master of Sports of Ukraine.”
In 2004 and 2007, he became the strongest man on the planet, breaking all world records.
2nd place. Mariusz Pudzianowski
Our TOP of the most powerful people in the world continues with Mariusz Pudzianowski. This is the only person who became a five-time winner of World's Strongest Man. Mariusz is 4th dan in karate, enjoys powerlifting, rugby, and is also a fairly successful MMA fighter.
Mariusz started with karate, and at the age of 13 he became seriously interested in powerlifting. By the age of 15, the interests of the future record holder changed, and he devoted himself to boxing.
In 1999, Mariusz took first place in a competition called “Strongman”, and in 2012 he received the title “the strongest man in the world”, which he then managed to defend 4 more times in a row.
In 2010, Mariusz challenged Žydrunas Savickas himself, but lost to him by a small margin.
1st place. Zydrunas Savickas
The first and well-deserved place in our ranking is occupied by Zydrunas Savickas. This man became the winner of the Arnold Classic Strongest Man competition twice in a row, and the strongman won the World’s Strongest Man several times. Savickas has broken more than 20 world records in powerlifting and extreme strength.
Zydrunas became interested in sports at the age of 14. In 1992, he took part in the Strongest Man for the first time and took 10th place. In 1998, he earned the right to participate in the World Power Extreme Championship. There he received a serious knee injury, but recovered fairly quickly and returned to competition.
In 2002, 2003, 2008 Zydrunas became second in the World’s Strongest Man. During the same period, he became champion several times in the Arnold Classic Strongest Man and extreme strength competitions.
2009, 2010, 2012 become happy years for Savickas, because he is the champion at World’s Strongest Man.
The strongest man in the world in history - Masutatsu Oyama
The most prominent representative of martial arts that has ever existed on the planet, Masutatsu Oyama, who possessed the 10th dan of the Kyokushinkai style.
He was born in 1923 in Korea. Masutatsu began playing sports in early childhood - from the age of nine. By the age of 13, the young man had already become a well-deserved holder of a black belt in Chinese Kempo.
After 2 years, Oyama headed to Japan, where he became a military pilot. During all the time that he spent in the Land of the Rising Sun, the young man achieved great success in studying samurai traditions. For the sake of this hobby, he even later quit his service. In addition, Oyama decided to go as a hermit on a mountain called Shinobu. This step was not easy for him, but the desire to bring his fighting skills to perfection overcame all doubts.
The man trained tirelessly for almost a whole year. It took him 12 hours a day to hone his skills. Upon returning to your hometown Oyama felt invincible and invincible.
He challenged the best martial artists to fights. But no one could resist Oyama. Some fighters gave up immediately after the first blow, which the master delivered so deftly that no one was able to block it.
Oyam could break 17 layers of tiles and 4 bricks, split cobblestones in half, demolish the necks of bottles with his clear blow, and also fight with fifty bulls.
To prove his incredible power, Masutatsu challenged the most powerful animals on the planet, but the government forbade him from killing animals for the sake of a general demonstration of his strength.
In 1964, Oyama opened a martial arts school called Kyokushinkai, which eventually became a member of 12 million people.
The great fighter and strongman died in 1994. Thousands of people attended his funeral. Films such as "Warrior of the Wind" and "Doomed to Solitude" were made in Oyama's honor.
As you can see, heroes exist not only in epics, but also in real life. The strongest people in the world, whose photos we provided in our article, are real strongmen who have proven their true strength in all kinds of international competitions. Whether it is worth imitating such people is up to you to decide. But this is much better than devoting your life to addictions and unnecessary entertainment.
Drag a multi-ton truck for several meters, tear apart a frying pan with your bare hands, inflate a heating pad, break concrete blocks, hammer a nail with your fist - the heroes of our article can do all this. We present the top 10 strongest people in the world, setting incredible records. Our ranking includes not only the winners of the World Strongman Cup, a competition held among strongmen, but also athletes who show amazing records of strength and endurance.
In 10th place is a strongman. He has impressive physical characteristics - height 190 cm and weight 134 kilograms. One of the strongest men in the world easily lifts logs weighing over 100 kg and dumbbells weighing 83 kg. However, he does not consider himself an extraordinary person. According to Hoginen, many people are capable of such records; the main thing is to use the body muscles correctly.
One of the strongest people in the world, looks nothing like a strongman. But with a height of 175 cm and a weight of 76 kg, he does incredible things. Denis breaks objects that an ordinary person cannot even bend - handcuffs, steel wrenches and reference books 1,700 pages thick. But this is not the limit of his capabilities. He hammers a nail into the frying pan and the wooden board underneath with his bare hand. In this case, the nail does not bend. Experts studied this Rogers trick and found that in order to break through a frying pan, you need to use about 160 kg of force. But human hand weighs on average 450-500 grams. The secret of the amazing trick is that the strongman uses speed - his hand reaches a huge speed of about 110 km/h upon impact. The force of Denis’s impact on the nail is 150 kg.
Denis Rogers is ranked 9th in the top 10 strongest people in the world.
Women do not lag behind men in strength sports. , one of the top 10 strongest people on the planet, has set more than one record. She lifted 270 kg in the bench press and 310 kg in the deadlift. Becca came to strength sports, like many famous strongmen, from weightlifting. Since 2002, she began performing in various international competitions and competitions. Becca Swenson has impressive physical characteristics - with a height of 178 cm, she weighs 110 kg. Now she continues to engage in strength sports, but Svenson’s plans include her personal life and family.
A native of Ukraine takes 7th place in the top 10 strongest people on the planet. Sixty-three records he set were included in the Guinness Book. Dmitry was distinguished by his unusual strength even in childhood. As a young man, he easily broke chains, broke horseshoes and lifted cars.
Interesting fact: at the age of four, an accident happened to Dmitry - he was burned with boiling water and subsequently underwent 7 operations. The disease led to muscle atrophy and he had to learn to walk again.
The records that Khalaji sets look very impressive and even frightening. Many of them repeat the feats of ancient athletes. So, in the Moscow circus Dmitry performed a number that broke the record of Bibon, an athlete ancient world. A modern strongman lifted a stone weighing 152 kilograms with one hand, while the stone lifted by Bibo in the 6th century BC. e., weighed 143 kg. Another amazing record of the Ukrainian strongman was called “Devil’s Forge”. The athlete lay on nails; three concrete blocks with a total weight of 700 kg were placed on his chest and smashed with a sledgehammer.
Coming from a family of professional athletes (the strongman's father was a weightlifter), he took up the sport at the age of 11, choosing Kyokushinkai karate. Two years later, Mariusz became interested in powerlifting, and then switched to boxing, which he devoted 7 years to. He began competing in strength sports at the age of 16. Currently involved in rugby and mixed martial arts.
In 5th place in the top 10 strongest people in the world is, who set the absolute record for Russia in the deadlift. This is a cult figure in the world of extreme power sports. Born in Chelyabinsk. At the age of 13, he began weightlifting and quickly achieved amazing results. Became an 8-time champion of Russia in this sport in the weight category over 105 kg. Having won the title of the strongest man in Russia, Koklyaev went into extreme power. During his sports career, the strongman took part in more than 40 sports competitions, half of which he won. Koklyaev enjoys great sympathy and respect from Arnold Schwarzenegger. This year, one of the strongest men in the world returned to weightlifting.
Holder prize places in the competition for the title of the strongest man in the world, takes 4th place in our top 10. He is also the tallest modern strongman - his height is 206 cm. Thanks to his outstanding physical characteristics, the strongman received the role of the royal guard Gregor Clegane in the cult television series Game of Thrones.
In 3rd place in the top 10 strongmen is. He twice won the title of the world's strongest man. Since childhood I have been involved athletics. After working as a coach for some time after the army, in 2000 he took up strength all-around. Some of his records are included in the Guinness Book of Records: he was able to pull 5 trams with a total weight of 101.5 tons, lifted and installed 4 ice cubes weighing 150 kg per minute on pedestals.
Since 2015, Virastyuk has been working as a border guard inspector at Lviv Airport.
Second place in the top 10 modern strongmen is occupied by, who has won the title of “The Strongest Man in the World” three times. He began his career in strength sports in 2005 as an amateur. A year later he was performing as a professional. He became the only strongman to lift 6 Atlas stones (one of the stages of the World’s Strongest Man competition). He has excellent physical characteristics for a strongman - height 203 cm, weight 197 kg.
The Lithuanian strongman is the strongest strongman in the world. I became interested in powerlifting as a child after watching strongman competitions on TV. During his second performance he broke all Latvian records. In 2001, he received a severe knee injury, but successfully recovered and after 9 months he competed at the next competition. During his sports career he set 40 world records.
Since time immemorial, physical strength and strong muscles have been considered vital attributes of a true male protector. After all, if an uninvited guest comes into the house in the form of a bear, wolf or robbers, how is the weakling going to protect his family and himself from harm? The strong man didn’t even care about the bear, and the family felt behind him like behind a stone wall.
Hundreds of years have passed, and the situation has changed radically: a man of the 21st century does not have to be Hercules to be successful. However, the call of nature is stronger - it is not without reason that many men devote great attention working on your body, wanting to achieve a majestic figure, sculpted muscles and great endurance.
There is a popular misconception among people that the most powerful man on the planet is certainly watching them from the television screen - be it Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone or Jason Statham. In fact, all these undoubtedly outstanding athletes are simply doing good PR due to their muscles.
In 2015, the next World’s Strongest Man competition took place. This championship was first organized in 1977 by David Webster, a famous Scot, multiple champion of his country in discus throwing and shot put, and since then has been held annually in all corners of the planet. The 2015 World's Strongest Man Championship was held in the spring in the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur, with the participation of 30 strongmen from different countries. 2 winners from each of the 5 qualifying days advanced to the final round, and American Brian Shaw celebrated his triumph.
Brian Shaw was born on February 26, 1982 in Fort Lupton, Colorado. Height – 203 cm, weight – about 200 kg. The tall stature and strong physique of both parents were passed on to the child, and by the final grades of school, Brian was huge for his age, a hulk of 2 meters tall and weighing more than 100 kg. He was actively involved in sports, and he especially liked basketball: the guy regularly took part in school and college competitions. Gradually Shaw began to feel drawn to power types sports - no wonder, with such inclinations! He carried the heaviest and most massive objects in order to be confident in his own ability to be a huge man physical strength and endurance.
The beginning of Brian Shaw's sports career is considered to be his victory in the fall of 2005 in the "Denver's Strongest Man" tournament as an amateur. The following year he entered the professional category and systematically improved. In 2009, he won 3rd place at the prestigious Fortissimus competition in Canada. Most of all, Shaw amazed the public by managing to lift 6 satin stones weighing from 135 to 192 kg, which no one else was able to do at the tournament. During 2009, Brian competed in the World Strongman Super Series in Romania and the World's Strongest Man in Malta. It was at the most prestigious strongman tournament that the now classic confrontation between Brian Shaw and Lithuanian Zydrunas Savickas began. Then the Lithuanian giant achieved victory, and the American became only third.
A year later, at the 2010 tournament in South Africa, Shaw and Savickas again reached the finals. According to the total indicators in six competitions, the Lithuanian was minimally ahead of his opponent - 3 first places against 2. Savickas' dominance continued at the Giants Live Istanbul exhibition tournament in October of the same year - the American again finished second. However, the reward for perseverance found the hero already in 2011, when in the third consecutive World’s Strongest Man final, held on Shaw’s native North American soil, Brian finally managed to beat Savickas and win the long-awaited victory.
In 2012, Shaw was unable to build on his success, finishing in an unexpectedly low 4th place at a tournament in Los Angeles - the worst in all his years of participation in competitions. Such a deafening failure forced Brian to sweat seven times in training to regain his previous shape. And it brought results: in 2013, Shaw made a spectacular comeback, defeating “old friend” Savickas in the World’s Strongest Man final. However, the next move in this incredible fight was again up to the Lithuanian, and the American continued the tradition of remaining without a title in even years, taking 3rd place. Last on this moment the tournament in 2015 brought Brian another revenge in the battle with Savickas.
- Barbell squats – 410 kg
- Bench press – 290 kg
- Deadlift – 420 kg (without straps), 463 kg (with straps)
Personal records:
When not training or competing, Shaw works as a personal trainer. He loves hunting and fishing, he is a master of delicious food, and he loves sweets. Brian is a bachelor, but he dreams of finding the one with whom he will connect his life.
But Brian Shaw is still the present and future of strength sports, and if we talk about the strongest man of all time, then we will talk about the great Japanese-Korean Masutatsu Oyama. He is rightfully recognized as the brightest representative of martial arts, but, in addition, Oyama brought the development of karate to a qualitatively new level, contributed to its rapid popularization throughout the world, and founded a new style karate - Kyokushinkai.
The future legend was born in July 1923 in the Korean city of Kimje. WITH early years Masutatsu began training in martial arts, and at the age of 13 he already received a black belt in Chinese kempo.
2 years later he went to Japan with the desire to become a military pilot. While serving in the air force, Oyama did not stop studying martial arts and, inspired by Japan, began to actively study samurai traditions. Because of this, he soon had to quit his service and spend some time in seclusion and away from outside world on Mount Shinobu.
It was not easy for him to sacrifice his career as a military pilot, but his passion for developing combat and spiritual skills overpowered him. Oyama spent more than six months on the mountain, constantly improving in the development of military equipment and honing strikes on tree trunks and branches.
Inspired, Masutatsu returned to his homeland and immediately began to show what he had learned over the years. The best martial artists fought with him in battle, but no one was able to resist Oyama. Masutatsu relied heavily on the strength and sharpness of the first blow, so often opponents who were not ready for such agility ended the fight as soon as the fight began.
The strength of Masutatsu Oyama could not be described in words: a Korean with a Japanese soul broke tiles and bricks into pieces, cut off the neck of a bottle with a perfect palm strike, and stood up to aggressive bulls. To demonstrate his physical power to everyone, Oyama wanted to fight with the strongest animals on Earth, but received a government ban on killing living beings for personal interests.
At the end of the 50s. he created his own school of Kyokushinkai karate, and in less than 60 years the number of adherents of this style reached about 15 million people! Truly, it is impossible to overestimate Oyama’s contribution to the development of martial arts. When the great fighter died in 1994, tens of thousands of people buried him.
The most powerful people on the planet don't run around with a gun on the screen, rescuing hostages and defeating enemies. They demonstrate their strength at prestigious international tournaments, showing by their example that nothing is impossible and if you want to seriously engage in your physical improvement, all the cards are in your hands!
It is not possible to definitely name the strongest person – after all, in almost every country there were and are worthy athletes who show stunning results.
These strongmen adhered to different lifestyles, were long-livers or lived relatively few years, but they were all united by the will to win and new sports results. In different historical periods, different heroes find themselves on the podium, whose achievements will forever remain in people's memory and they are included in the generally recognized ranking of strongmen.
1 Long-lived and vegetarian Joe Rollino
He was the oldest strongman on the planet. At the age of 104 he was able to bend a coin with his fingers! Since the age of 20, Joe did not eat meat, did not drink alcoholic beverages, did not smoke, and had a sporty lifestyle. Despite the fact that Joe did not differ in athletic parameters (height 165 cm, weight 68 kg), his strength was truly incredible. "Baby Dandy" remained unbeaten in his weight class in boxing matches. In 1920 he lifted 1454 kg. Joe was not only a strongman, but also a boxer, a war veteran, an athlete and a Brooklyn legend. Having survived II World War, he could lift weights of 215 kg with his teeth, and with just one finger - a weight of 290 kg.
2 Alexander Zassa
It’s not for nothing that he was dubbed Iron Samson - after all, he fell under a truck, but remained alive! A native of Lithuania also could not boast of outstanding physical skills. parameters: height 167.5 cm, and maximum weight - 75 kg. In order to strengthen the tendons, Zass developed his own training method. Fame came to Alexander during World War I war. Having escaped from captivity, he managed to carry a wounded horse on himself. Later he performed with the Hungarian circus, demonstrating extraordinary tricks: he carried a horse or a piano around the arena with two girls; caught a cannonball weighing 90 kilograms fired from a cannon from a distance of 8 m; held on his body a cobblestone weighing 0.5 tons, which they hit with sledgehammers, while Alexander lay on nails driven into the board.
Strong photo of Alexander
3 Yakub Chekhovskaya
The name of the famous hero and circus weightlifter is now almost forgotten. Yakub Chekhovskaya is already in adolescence He entertained his friends by holding an iron beam on his shoulders with two guys holding on to its ends and spinning them around as if on a carousel. An incident helped him become famous: in the Warsaw circus, Ciniselli announced: if one of the spectators lasts at least 5 minutes in sparring with a wrestler, he will receive a substantial prize. To the amazement of the audience, it took the unknown guy less than 3 minutes to defeat the professional wrestler, putting him on his shoulder blades. The next morning, all the newspapers in Warsaw trumpeted about such a sensation, and Yakuba received offers from circus entrepreneurs. Subsequently, Chekhovskoy was awarded a gold belt for carrying six strong men in a circle with one hand.
Photo of a strong wrestler
4 Arnold Schwarzenegger
Started strength training from 15 years old. Schwarzenegger became Mr. Olympia in 5 years, although other athletes took an average of 10 years to achieve this. Arnold is the youngest Mr. Universe, and the title of Mr. Olympia belonged to Arnold 7 times. Since the 70s, he has starred in spectacular films that are so popular with all viewers.
Photo in strong youth
5 Zydrunas Savickas
Lithuanian Zydrunas Savickas is the strongest on the planet (according to 2009). The weight of this weightlifter is 180 kg with a height of 191 cm. 523 kg - this is how much the barbell weighed that the athlete lifted in 2014 at the Arnold Strongman Classic. Zydrunas continues to work out now, and not only in the gym: he ties ropes to cars and rolls them around the yard. One of his cars, the Nissan Pathfinder, weighs 2.2 tons.
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6 Vasily Virastyuk
A native of Ivano-Frankivsk, Vasily Virastyuk has been involved in weightlifting since he was 10 years old. In 2004, he became officially the strongest in the world.
In addition, he holds a number of Ukrainian records:
- he independently pulled a train weighing 101.5 tons;
- in a minute he moved a couple of 10 cars by 18.5 meters;
- in 60 seconds he managed to lift and install 4 ice cubes weighing 0.6 tons to a height of 1.3 meters.
It should be noted that no one had worked with ice before Virastyuk.
Strong record in the photo
7 Vasily Alekseev
Outstanding weightlifter Soviet period. Double Olympic champion, has 81 records to his name Soviet Union and 80 world records. The Russian Bear spent his childhood in the Arkhangelsk region. Helping to raft wood during school holidays, Vasily lifted heavy logs and so gradually moved on to weightlifting. Interesting fact: long time Vasily trained completely independently. At the age of nineteen, he already became a master of sports, lifting a total weight of 315 kilograms. Vasily is the “eternal” holder of the world record for three exercises - 645 kg (such competitions are not held now). It was Alekseev who became the first “six hundred”, conquering the peak of 600 kg.
Photo by Vasily Alekseev
8 Pole Mariusz Zbigniew Pudzianowski
Five-time winner of the World’s Strongest Man competition, the strongest man in the world in 2006 – 2007.
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9 Bruce Wilhelm
He is also a twice-titled world strongman: the first time in 1977, and the second time exactly one year later. Then he contributed in every possible way to organizing the Strongman competitions and wrote a lot of books and articles on weightlifting.
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10 Raivis Vidzis
The strongman rightfully held the title of the strongest man in Latvia (2000 - 2003). He was a Strongman Cub winner in 2004 and 2005. Physical data (Raivis's height is 184 cm, weight - 133 kilograms) allow the athlete to move heavy trucks, lift cobblestones weighing about 180 kg, move 400 kg tires and even heavier barrels.
The strongest man in the whole world
For fights without rules
Brazilian Anderson de Silva is the strongest MMA fighter on the planet. His career, which began in 1997, is not over yet. In 2012, Anderson was recognized as the strongest fighter in the middleweight division. The MMA community recognized him as one of the strongest fighters in the history of the sport. Silva has repeatedly admitted the best fighter, and “Men’s Health” included him in the list of the 15 strongest men on the planet.
In boxing
The animal aggression of Michael (Mike) Gerard Tyson, lightning speed combined with destructive power contributed to the fact that throughout his entire sports career, Michael won 50 out of 58 fights, 44 of which he completed with a complete knockout. Mike is the absolute world champion (1987 - 1990). At the 49th WBC Convention, it was decided to include Tyson in the Guinness Book of Records: for the fastest knockouts and for being the youngest heavyweight boxer on the planet.
In the bar
Soviet weightlifter Leonid Taranenko lifted the heaviest weight in the history of mankind back in the last century. His record has never been achieved by anyone else. Author of 19 world records, 2 of which remain unsurpassed today. The life story of the greatest strongman shows that there are no limits to human capabilities.
The most powerful - the strongest kick in football
The strongest football kick belongs to an excellent football player and one of the most beautiful men in the world to David Beckham. Back in 1997, the ball flew into the Chelsea goal at a speed of about 156 km per hour, and the goalkeeper, after such a powerful blow, could only throw up his hands. The famous football player ended his sports career on May 16, 2013.
The most powerful boy in the world
In 2001, the name of a Russian boy with an unusual fate, Bruce Khlebnikov, was included in the Guinness Book of Records. His mother watched TV shows with Bruce Lee throughout her pregnancy and then named her son after him. Trying to imitate his idol since childhood, at the age of five Bruce became the champion of the Russian Federation in wushu and stronger than all the guys in the yard. At the age of six he pulled a Volga, and at the age of 8 he lifted a weight weighing 8 kilograms 300 times. Bruce tore up 400-page calendars and 700-page books. When Bruce was just eleven, he lifted a weight of 240 tons and moved a crane that weighed 38 tons using 10 cm of hanging twine, tying it to his long hair. In addition, the boy conquered many records. At the age of 23, Bruce Klebnikov had already achieved 23 records.
