Strongmen Competitions - Strength Athletics in the United Kingdom and Ireland, Highland Games, Strongman Champions League, World's Strongest Man (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 33. Chapters: Strength athletics in the United Kingdom and Ireland, Highland games, Strongman Champions League, World's Strongest Man, Arnold Strongman Classic, Strongman Super Series, Mardan Ahanin, World Strongman Cup Federation, Highlander Challenge World Championships, Fortissimus, All-American Strongman Challenge, Strength athletics in Iceland, GNC Grip Gauntlet, World Highland Games Championships, Britain's Strongest Man, World Muscle Power Classic, Beauty and the Beast, Giants Live, Europe's Strongest Man, World Strongman Challenge, UK Strength Council, List of strongman competitions, Holland's Strongest Man, Lifting stone, Le Defi Mark Ten International, Finland's Strongest Man, Scotland County Highland Games, Norway's Strongest Man, Canada's Strongest Man, America's Strongest Man, Pure Strength, Husafell Stone, Sweden's Strongest Man, Western Isles Strongest man, Germany's Strongest Man, North America's Strongest Man, Australia's Strongest Man, Belgium's Strongest Man, Jon Pall Sigmarsson Classic. Excerpt: Strength athletics in the United Kingdom and Ireland, has a long history going back many centuries before the televisation of strongman competitions in the 1970s. The ancient heritage of the sport in the United Kingdom and Ireland lies in a number of traditional events, the most famous of which is arguably the traditional Highland Games, which itself is a source of many events now practiced in modern strongman competitions, such as World's Strongest Man and IFSA sponsored events. However, the traditional events still are popularly contested events today. In the more modern phenomena that is the World's Strongest Man and its associated competitions, the United Kingdom and Ireland remain well represented, with regular appearances at world finals, and three men having won the coveted title of World's Strongest Man. See al...