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Brian Shaw (born February 26, 1982) is an American retired professional strongman who is widely regarded as one of the greatest strength athletes of all-time. [ 7] He won the 2011, 2013, 2015, and 2016 World's Strongest Man, making him one of only five men to win the World’s Strongest Man four times or more. In 2011, Shaw became the first man ...
Aleksander Aberg. Otto Acron. Jouko Ahola. Bill Anderson. Paul Anderson. Johannes Arsjo. Evans Aryee. Don Athaldo. 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.
William Kazmaier (born December 30, 1953) is an American former world champion powerlifter, world champion strongman and professional wrestler.During the 1970s and 1980s, he set numerous powerlifting and strongman world records, and won two International Powerlifting Federation (IPF) World Championships and three World's Strongest Man titles.
Greenstein would go on to become one of the world’s strongest men, bending steel with his bare hands, biting through nails, and once stopping an airplane with his hair. ... Japanese American ...
World's Strongest Man. The World's Strongest Man is an international strongman competition held every year. Organized by American event management company IMG, a subsidiary of Endeavor, it is broadcast in the US during summers and in the UK around the end of December each year. [ 1]
The Know Nothings were a nativist political movement in the United States in the 1850s, officially known as the Native American Party before 1855, and afterwards simply the American Party. [ a] Members of the movement were required to say "I know nothing" whenever they were asked about its specifics by outsiders, providing the group with its ...
Henry comes from a family in which almost all of the men are larger than average, especially his great uncle Chudd, who was 6 ft 7 in, weighed approximately 500 lb (230 kg), never had a pair of manufactured shoes, and was known as the strongest man in the Piney Woods of East Texas. [29]
Angus MacAskill was a notable strongman of the 19th century.. In the first half of the 20th century, strongmen performed various feats of strength such as the bent press (not to be confused with the bench press, which did not exist at the time), supporting large amounts of weight held overhead at arm's length, steel bending, chain breaking, etc.