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World's Strongest Team

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World's Strongest Team
Tournament information
SportStrongman
LocationVarious locations in
United Kingdom and Ireland
Established1995
FormatMulti-event competition
Teams8

World's Strongest Team is an annual strongman contest organized by Ultimate Strongman that consists of two men teams (occasionally even three or four) 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. Some of the famous annual events include team deadlifts, team deadlift static holds, super yokes, rock lifts, Atlas stones, four-man pole push, tug of war, medley, railway track farmers walk, Basque circle and arm over arm vehicle pull. In recent years it has been organised by Strongmen Glenn Ross and Eddie Hall in Stoke-on-Trent.

Past winners

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Year Champion Runner-Up 3rd Place
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
1997 Finland Riku Kiri
Finland Jouko Ahola
Finland Hannu Osala
Finland Jukka Laine
Iceland Magnus Ver Magnusson
Iceland Torfi Olafsson
1998 Netherlands Berend Veneberg
Netherlands Wout Zijlstra
Finland Jouko Ahola
Finland Sami Heinonen
Sweden Magnus Samuelsson
Sweden Torbjorn Samuelsson
1999 Finland Jouko Ahola
Finland Janne Virtanen
Sweden Magnus Samuelsson
Sweden Torbjorn Samuelsson
Poland Mariusz Pudzianowski
Poland Jarek Dymek
2000 Finland Janne Virtanen
Finland Pasi Paavisto
Poland Mariusz Pudzianowski
Poland Jarek Dymek
Netherlands Berend Veneberg
Netherlands Wout Zijlstra
2001 Finland Janne Virtanen
Finland Juha-Matti Räsänen
Poland Jarek Dymek
Poland Ireneusz Kuras
Netherlands Wout Zijlstra
Netherlands Jarno Hams
2002 Finland Janne Virtanen
Finland Juha-Matti Räsänen
Netherlands Berend Veneberg
Netherlands Wout Zijlstra
Poland Mariusz Pudzianowski
Poland Jarek Dymek
2003 Poland Mariusz Pudzianowski
Poland Jarek Dymek
Hungary László Fekete
Hungary Tibor Mészáros
United States Mark Phillipi
United States Jesse Marunde
2004 Poland Mariusz Pudzianowski
Poland Jarek Dymek
Lithuania Zydrunas Savickas
Lithuania Vilius Petrauskas
Latvia Raimonds Bergmanis
Latvia Agris Kazelniks
2005 Poland Mariusz Pudzianowski
Poland Slawomir Toczek
Russia Elbrus Nigmatulin
Russia Mikhail Koklyaev
Latvia Raivis Vidzis
Latvia Rolands Gulbis
2005 (IFSA) Team Europe
Lithuania Zydrunas Savickas
Germany Heinz Ollesch
Latvia Raimonds Bergmanis
Estonia Andrus Murumets
Team Pan-America
United States Jon Andersen
United States Travis Ortmayer
United States Van Hatfield
Canada Geoff Dolan
Team World
United Kingdom Eddy Ellwood
Grenada Mark Felix
Russia Mikhail Koklyaev
Hungary Adam Darasz
2006 (IFSA) Netherlands Edwin Hakvoort
Netherlands Jarno Hams
Hungary László Fekete
Hungary Miklós Fekete
Finland Juha-Matti Räsänen
Finland Tomi Lotta
2007 (IFSA) Lithuania Zydrunas Savickas
Lithuania Vidas Blekaitis
Russia Mikhail Koklyaev
Russia Igor Pedan
United States Derek Poundstone
United States Tom McClure
2012 [1] 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
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
2015 [2] 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
2018 Lithuania Vytautas Lalas
Lithuania Marius Lalas
United States Martins Licis
United States Trey Mitchell
England Phil Roberts
Scotland Tom Stoltman
2019 Canada Jean-François Caron
Poland Krzysztof Radzikowski
Estonia Rauno Heinla
United States Rob Kearney
Russia Mikhail Shivlyakov
Slovenia Matjaz Belsak
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

References

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  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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