2013
Brian Shaw wins his second title in Sanya, China.
Brian Shaw wins his second title in Sanya, China.
Žydrūnas Savickas wins the first of his three titles this year.
The World’s Strongest Man Hall of Fame is established and three Strongmen are voted in.
In honour of the West Virginia location, a coal truck is used in the Vehicle Pull event.
In a nod to 2006’s winner, fireman Phil Pfister, a firetruck is used instead of a plane for the truck pull event.
Phil Pfister wins the WSM title this year. Not only was he the first American to win the title since Bill Kazmaier in 1982, he also beat the then three time (But now five time) champion Mariusz Pudzianowski.
Mariusz Pudzianowski wins the first of his five championships this year. He’d go on to win the competition again in 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2008. No other competitor has won the title five times.
Two-time Strongman Jouko Ahola lifted the heaviest ever Atlas Stone in the 1999 WSM competition. It weighed a phenomenal 187kgs (414lbs).
The first year the contest is held in Morocco, and Magnus Samuelsson takes the title for the first time.
Jouko Ahola wins the first of his two WSM titles and sets the record for the Hercules Hold, lifting 434lbs for 45.7 seconds
The world of the Strongmen loses a legend as Jón Páll Sigmarsson dies.
Magnús ver Magnússon wins the first of his four championships.
Jón Páll Sigmarsson wins the first of his four titles.
Geoff Capes – the first British champion – wins WSM for the first time. He’d go on to win a second title in 1985.
Bill Kazmaier wins the first of his three championships.
Bruce Wilhelm wins the first of his two victories and is crowned the first ever World’s Strongest Man.
The first ever WSM contest is held in Universal Studios, California.