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World's Strongest Team
Tournament information
SportStrongman
LocationVarious locations
Established1995
FormatMulti-event competition
Teams6-8

World's Strongest Team is an annual strongman contest organized by Ultimate Strongman and Strongman Champions League that consists of two men teams (occasionally three) from various countries all over the world. The teams are named according to their ancestral traits and geographical locations.

The contest was first held in 1995 and during the first two years, it was held with three men per team. From 1997 onwards it was held with two men per team. During mid 2000s, it was assisted by IFSA and in 2021 was taken over and held by Strongman Champions League.

Some of the famous annual events include team deadlifts, team deadlift static holds, super yokes, rock lifts, Atlas stones, stone carries, four-man pole push, tug of war, medley, railway track farmers walk, Basque circle and arm over arm vehicle pull.

Past winners

Year Champion Runner-Up 3rd Place Venue
1995 United Kingdom Jamie Reeves
United Kingdom Gary Taylor
United Kingdom Forbes Cowan
Netherlands Berend Veneberg
Netherlands Tjalling van den Bosch
Netherlands Ted van der Parre
South Africa Gerrit Badenhorst
South Africa Wayne Price
Namibia Anton Boucher
Isle of Wight, England
1996 Iceland Magnus Ver Magnusson
Iceland Torfi Ólafsson
Iceland Gunnar Þór Guðjónsson
Finland Jouko Ahola
Finland Riku Kiri
Finland Jorma Ojanaho
Austria Manfred Hoeberl
Germany Heinz Ollesch
Germany Martin Muhr
Reykjavík, Iceland
1997 Finland Riku Kiri
Finland Jouko Ahola
Finland Hannu Osala
Finland Jukka Laine
Iceland Magnus Ver Magnusson
Iceland Torfi Olafsson
Vaasa, Finland
1998 Netherlands Berend Veneberg
Netherlands Wout Zijlstra
Finland Jouko Ahola
Finland Sami Heinonen
Sweden Magnus Samuelsson
Sweden Torbjorn Samuelsson
Hardenberg, Netherlands
1999 Finland Jouko Ahola
Finland Janne Virtanen
Sweden Magnus Samuelsson
Sweden Torbjorn Samuelsson
Poland Mariusz Pudzianowski
Poland Jarek Dymek
Panyu, China
2000 Finland Janne Virtanen
Finland Pasi Paavisto
Poland Mariusz Pudzianowski
Poland Jarek Dymek
Netherlands Berend Veneberg
Netherlands Wout Zijlstra
Cserkeszőlő, Hungary
2001 Finland Janne Virtanen
Finland Juha-Matti Räsänen
Poland Jarek Dymek
Poland Ireneusz Kuras
Netherlands Wout Zijlstra
Netherlands Jarno Hams
Gdynia, Poland
2002 Finland Janne Virtanen
Finland Juha-Matti Räsänen
Netherlands Berend Veneberg
Netherlands Wout Zijlstra
Poland Mariusz Pudzianowski
Poland Jarek Dymek
Heerenveen, Netherlands
2003 Poland Mariusz Pudzianowski
Poland Jarek Dymek
Hungary László Fekete
Hungary Tibor Mészáros
United States Mark Phillipi
United States Jesse Marunde
Pécs, Hungary
2004 Poland Mariusz Pudzianowski
Poland Jarek Dymek
Lithuania Zydrunas Savickas
Lithuania Vilius Petrauskas
Latvia Raimonds Bergmanis
Latvia Agris Kazelniks
Płock, Poland
2005 Poland Mariusz Pudzianowski
Poland Slawomir Toczek
Russia Elbrus Nigmatulin
Russia Mikhail Koklyaev
Latvia Raivis Vidzis
Latvia Rolands Gulbis
Poznań, Poland
2006 Netherlands Edwin Hakvoort
Netherlands Jarno Hams
Hungary László Fekete
Hungary Miklós Fekete
Finland Juha-Matti Räsänen
Finland Tomi Lotta
Sárvár, Hungary
2007 Lithuania Zydrunas Savickas
Lithuania Vidas Blekaitis
Russia Mikhail Koklyaev
Russia Igor Pedan
United States Derek Poundstone
United States Tom McClure
Vilnius, Lithuania
2012 The Vikings
Iceland Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson
Finland Jarno Jokinen
Baltic Barbarians
Estonia Tarmo Mitt
Estonia Markus Männik
English Saxons
United Kingdom Eddie Hall
United Kingdom Simon Flint
Mullingar, Ireland
2014 The Yankees
United States Brian Shaw
United States Dave Ostlund
The Saxons
United Kingdom Terry Hollands
United Kingdom Eddie Hall
The Barbarians
Serbia Ervin Katona
United Kingdom Graham Hicks
Stoke-on-Trent, England
2015 The Vikings
Iceland Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson
Slovenia Matjaz Belsak
The Saxons
United Kingdom Eddie Hall
United Kingdom Mark Felix
The Yankees
United States Jerry Pritchett
United States Mike Burke
Stoke-on-Trent, England
2018 Lithuania Vytautas Lalas
Lithuania Marius Lalas
United States Martins Licis
United States Trey Mitchell
England Phil Roberts
Scotland Tom Stoltman
Stoke-on-Trent, England
2019 Canada Jean-François Caron
Poland Krzysztof Radzikowski
Estonia Rauno Heinla
United States Rob Kearney
Russia Mikhail Shivlyakov
Slovenia Matjaz Belsak
Nottingham, England
2021 Latvia Dainis Zageris
Latvia Aivars Šmaukstelis
Republic of Ireland Johan Espenkrona
Republic of Ireland Sean O'Hagan
Netherlands Kelvin de Ruiter
Netherlands George Sulaiman
Joensuu, Finland
2022 Latvia Dainis Zageris
Latvia Aivars Šmaukstelis
Estonia Ervin Toots
Estonia Gunnar Gimbutas
Netherlands Kelvin de Ruiter
Netherlands George Sulaiman
Joensuu, Finland
2023 Poland Oskar Ziolkowski
Poland Adam Roszkowski
Latvia Aivars Šmaukstelis
Latvia Maris Krievelis
Estonia Ervin Toots
Estonia Gunnar Gimbutas
Kalajoki, Finland

See also

References

  1. Strength Sports, SQUOD1. "Ultimate Strongman World's Strongest Team 2012/08/06 - Columb Barracks, Westmeath, Ireland - 1st place: Vikings (56 pts), 2nd place: Baltic Barbarians (47 pts), 3rd place: Saxons (46 pts)". www.irishstrongman.com. Retrieved 2012-08-06.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  2. Triana, Andrew (4 June 2015). "Huge Weekend For Strongman: World Records Fall and One Team Rises". www.elitefts.com. Retrieved 2015-06-04.

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