Their names will be remembered for centuries to come.
These guys are the strongest people on the planet, surprised the world by lifting huge weights and other evidence of its incredible power. Let’s learn the names of the people that have bullies in a dark alley is better not to ask to smoke.
Bill Kazmaier
American bill Kazmaier was born in 1953. He has won three of the strongman competition “the strongest man in the world” and twice became world champion in the version of the world powerlifting Federation. In his youth, bill entered the University of Wisconsin but dropped out to actively train in weight lifting. Today, Kazmaier walked away from the sport. He lives with his wife and son in Alabama and holds a private fitness club S. W. A. T.
Vasily Alexeev
Born in 1942 in a village near Ryazan, Alekseev many years of training on their own: coaches weightlifting in his native land was not. The result was impressive: Alekseev – the owner of 80 world records in weightlifting! Between 1970 and 1978, he never lost any competitions. Twice he has won the title of Olympic champion and eight-time champion of the world. For several years it was officially named the most powerful man in the world.
Victor DELAMAR
Canadian Victor Delmar growth is less than 170 cm and weighing 68 kilos, many were taken for a weakling. But this impression was deceptive. Nature has given Victor an unusually strong spine and steel muscles, due to which he demonstrated the miracles of power. He raised 17 adult men on the back, keeping the weight 100 pounds with his little finger and brought up the stairs horse. “Canadian Samson,” as he called Victor press, has been wrestling and showed power stunts only in their spare time: Victor was a policeman. And it is unlikely that local thugs dared to misbehave in his area!
Mark Henry
Mark Henry is the star of the famous WWE having a wrestling company and one of the few athletes in the world who have achieved outstanding results in several strength sports – wrestling, powerlifting and weightlifting. Henry is the world champion in the heavyweight division in wrestling in 2011, the winner of the competition of athletes “Arnold classic” in 1992 and member of the U.S. national team in weightlifting for two Olympics in 1992 and 1996.
Angus MacAskill
Angus MacAskill known as “Angus-the Giant”, was born in 1825 in a small Scottish village. His height was 2 meters 17 centimeters: MacAskill was the tallest man on Earth, not having the gene for gigantism. About his strength of legends: he said that he can easily throw the Laden horse over the fence or alone to carry on the shoulders of a ship anchor weighing over a ton. In the end, he was able to use his strength, analsis to demonstrate the power stunts in the famous circus Barnum.
Brian Shaw
Brian Shaw three times became the winner of the competition “the strongest man in the world” and once won the prestigious tournament of athletes “Arnold classic”, becoming the only person in the world, winning both competitions in one year. Show a close friend of Arnold Schwarzenegger and author of a book on methods of training powerlifters.
Marius Pudzianowski
Pudzianowski numbers on your account most wins in the competition “the strongest man in the world” than any other athlete: he became the champion five times! When in the sixth year of participation in the tournament Pudzianowski took the second place, he immediately announced that more to compete will not, and fully concentrate on the martial arts. Yes, this man is also a master of karate and mixed martial arts that, by God, already, probably, too.
Zydrunas Savickas
At the age of 14 Zydrunas saw on TV a competition of the Lithuanian athletes and decided that will be the same. He exceeded his promise: Savickas, four – time winner of the tournament “the strongest man in the world” and the eightfold winner of the competition “Arnold classic”. In addition, Zydrunas is the world record holder in lifting logs (220 kg), and his personal record in the weight in height with one hand at all shocking; he managed to throw the weight 25 pounds at 5.2 m up!
Paul Anderson
Paul Anderson was born in 1932 in Georgia, in the family of a farmer. In his youth he trained in weight lifting by using a homemade barbells constructed for his father, who was a long and sturdy stick with a large cement blotches on the ends. Paul Anderson twice, in 1955 and 1956, was the winner of the national championship in weightlifting in 1955 won a gold medal and in 1956 the title of world champion. But he his greatest accomplishment is not considered sports awards, and “Boarding school Paul Anderson” is a shelter for children in difficult life situations.
Louis Uni
Louis Uni was born in France in 1862. At age 14 he ran away with the circus to become an artist-athlete. His strength was amazing: he bent his fingers the coins and held over the head of a cast iron locomotive wheels. In 1913, when he was fifty, Uni received a severe injury, demonstrating another trick. He held the two bumpers of the car, trying, humming motors, disperse in different directions, and suddenly fell, clutching his chest. As it turned out, he had torn the muscle in his hand and a large blood vessel in the chest. However, to everyone’s surprise, ERI quickly recovered from injury and continued to perform on stage until his death in 66 years.
Greg Kovacs
Greg Kovacs was an electrical engineer, but gave up a career to do bodybuilding and powerlifting. Due to its impressive muscles, he was for many years one of the most popular athletes in the United States. However, he could not concentrate on any one region, and therefore, according to the experts, his sports achievements were much more modest than allow his natural gifts. Soon, Kovac left the sport, deciding to become a coach of athletes And here he found himself, quickly gaining a reputation as a coach who can work miracles. Alas, his career was short-lived: Greg Kovacs died of a heart attack at age 44.
Ed Cohen
Ed Cohen made history as the athlete who managed to lift off the ground the highest weight, – his record 1,117 pounds. While Cohen was the athlete not the heaviest weight category that makes the look on his achievement even more respectful.
Magnus ver Magnusson
Magnus ver Magnusson – Iceland legend and eight-time winner of the national title of master athlete and four-time winner of the tournament “the strongest man in the world”. He started powerlifting in 1994, and in 1995 he won the Russian Junior team to gold medals of world and European Championships. Now Magnus 53, and he’s long gone from the sport. Instead, he got himself a gym “Nest of giants” in Reykjavik, which is very popular among powerlifters.
Louis Cyr
It is called the strongest man in history. Louis Cyr was struck by its power: he held the little finger of his weight to 250 pounds, raised platform with 18взрослыми men, carried in his hands a loaded horse and held on the back of a cargo of three tons. Cyr had a chance even to speak in front of Queen Victoria, showing her a trick, during which he retained about four tearing loose horses. He died at age 49 from kidney problems and is still considered undefeated.
Ivan Poddubny
Career fighter began to Pushkin with visit to the circus. When the fighters began to invite people from the audience to try their strength, Poddubny was released into the arena and overcame all the circus strongmen, except for one.He was immediately invited to join, and he said Yes. In 1903 he became interested in the French struggle, and soon became the winner of all the Russian tournaments and then champion of the world. When Piddubna was over 50, he continued to perform in the circus, amazing doctors with his good physical form.
