The 2024 Russia’s Strongest Man took place on October 26th in the city of Evpatoria. It featured 11 of Russia’s greatest Strongman athletes and put them through a series of challenges to find out who the strongest one is. In the end, Dmitrii Skosyrskii proved to be the greatest out of the bunch.
Dmitrii Skosyrskii had an incredible performance overall, winning two events and securing his spot in the Stone Off as the overall leader, where he ended up beating Alexander Klokov. All things considered, Dmitrii was convincingly the greatest Strongman in the lineup, making his victory deserved.
2024 Russia’s Strongest Man Results
- Dmitrii Skosyrskii — 51 points
- Alexander Klokov — 45 points
- Valentin Akimov — 37.5 points
- Petr Martynenko — 30 points
- Egor Sorokoletov — 23 points
- Roman Druzhinin — 22.5 points
- Konstantin Koldunov — 21 points
- Dmitrii Samoilov — 20.5 points
- Evgeny Gavrilenko — 12 points
- Konstantin Klimash — 2.5 points
- Yuri Kapustin — 1 point
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Event One — Log Lift
The Log Lift was the first event of the 2024 Russia’s Strongest Man, and it was set up in the format of an AMRAP. In turn, the athletes had to overhead press a 150-kilogram (330.7-pound) Log for as many reps as possible but only had a 60-second time limit to do so.
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Dmitrii Skosyrskii got up to an incredible start, walking out on stage and locking out six repetitions on the Log Lift. It turned out that no other athlete managed to get within even a rep of him, meaning that he picked up the max points.
Petr Martynenko ended up winning the battle for second place by locking out four repetitions. Behind him were Sorokoletov and Akimov, who tied for third place with three reps each.
- Dmitrii Skosyrskii — 6 reps
- Petr Martynenko — 4 reps
- Valentin Akimov — 3 reps
- Egor Sorokoletov — 3 reps
- Alexander Klokov — 2 reps
- Roman Druzhinin — 2 reps
- Dmitrii Samoilov — 1 rep
- Evgeny Gavrilenko — 1 rep
- Konstantin Koldunov — No Lift
- Konstantin Klimash — No Lift
- Yuri Kapustin — No Lift
Event Two — Farmer’s Walk & Yoke Medley
The second event of the 2024 Russia’s Strongest Man consisted of two exercises. Firstly, the athletes had to lift a 400-kilogram (881.8-pound) Yoke and carry it for a distance of 20 meters. Once that was done, they moved on to the next challenge, which was to carry a pair of 150-kilogram (330.7-pound) Farmer’s implements for another 20 meters. The goal was to finish the event in the shortest time possible.
Alexander Klokov was the only man that managed to finish the event in under half a minute, thus topping the leaderboards and taking the event win. His final time came out to 27.74 seconds, which was significantly faster than anyone else achieved.
Dmitrii Skosyrskii followed up his win from the first event with another impressive second-place finish in the medley. He was six seconds slower than Klokov, but, on the other hand, nearly ten seconds quicker than the third-place finisher.
- Alexander Klokov — 27.74 seconds
- Dmitrii Skosyrskii — 33.87 seconds
- Valentin Akimov — 43.34 seconds
- Konstantin Koldunov — 56.06 seconds
- Roman Druzhinin — 66.47 seconds
- Petr Martynenko — 86.09 seconds
- Egor Sorokoletov — 25 meters
- Dmitrii Samoilov — 25 meters
- Evgeny Gavrilenko — 20 meters
- Konstantin Klimash — 20 meters
- Yuri Kapustin — 1 meter
Event Three — Truck Pull
The third event of the competition was Truck Pull, which proved to be much more difficult than expected. The athletes were strapped to a 22,000-kilogram (48,501-pound) vehicle, which they then had to pull for a distance of 20 meters. With a 60-second time limit, the athletes had to rush to cross the finish line.
Some of the athletes did not manage to complete the entire event, but of those that did, Alexander Klokov was the fastest. He ended with a time of 51.06 seconds, marginally outperforming his rivals. Consequently, he took his second event win of the day.
The second-place went to Valentin Akimov, who finished the Truck Pull in 53.62 seconds. Konstantin Koldunov finished another four seconds behind Akimov and rounded up the top three.
- Alexander Klokov — 51.06 seconds
- Valentin Akimov — 53.62 seconds
- Konstantin Koldunov — 57.62 seconds
- Dmitrii Skosyrskii — 58.00 seconds
- Egor Sorokoletov — 58.22 seconds
- Petr Martynenko — 17 meters
- Dmitrii Samoilov — 10 meters
- Roman Druzhinin — No Lift
- Evgeny Gavrilenko — No Lift
- Konstantin Klimash — Withdrew
- Yuri Kapustin — Withdrew
Event Four — Conan’s Wheel
The second-to-last event of 2024 Russia’s Strongest Man was a pain-inducing one, to say the least. Namely, the athletes performed the Conan’s Wheel, where they had to carry a load of 255 kilograms (562.2 pounds) while using a technique similar to a Zercher Carry. The goal was to cross as much distance as possible.
Dmitrii Skosyrskii added another victory to his name and secured an overall lead going into the final event. He crossed 19 sectors, showing that he is both physically and mentally resilient.
Valentin Akimov finished just behind Dmitrii, carrying the Conan’s Wheel for 17 sectors. Roman Druzhin was the only other athlete who crossed double digits in regard to sectors achieved.
- Dmitrii Skosyrskii — 19 sectors
- Valentin Akimov — 17 sectors
- Roman Druzhinin — 14 sectors
- Petr Martynenko — 9 sectors
- Alexander Klokov — 8 sectors
- Dmitrii Samoilov — 8 sectors
- Evgeny Gavrilenko — 6 sectors
- Konstantin Koldunov — 3 sectors
- Egor Sorokoletov — 1 sector
Event Five — Stone Off
The final event of the 2024 Russia’s Strongest Man was a Stone Off, similar to the one seen during the qualifying portion of the World’s Strongest Man. So, only the two athletes with the highest amount of points after the first four events took part in the Stone Off, with the goal of finding out who the stronger out of the two was.
In turn, Dmitrii Skosyrskii and Alexander Klokov went head-to-head to see who of them was able to perform more reps on the 180-kilogram (396.8-pound) Atlas Stone lift. Both athletes were incredible, performing multiple rounds, lifting the stone one after the other. However, Klokov found his limit to be 8 reps, while Dmitrii Skosyrskii managed to perform 9 reps. In turn, Skosyrskii was crowned the 2024 Russia’s Strongest Man.
- Dmitrii Skosyrskii — 9 reps
- Alexander Klokov — 8 reps
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Despite being just 26-years-old, Dmitrii Skosyrskii is a very experienced Strongman athlete. He has taken part in 12 international and national competitions, of which he managed to win six. So, Dmitrii holds a very impressive streak of results and is still on track to become even better.
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