The biggest Strongman competition on the planet is coming to Bradenton, Florida from June 13th-16th and the events have been announced. Now, the World’s Strongest Man competition has seen many champions over the year’s with Hafthor Bjornsson winning the title in 2018.
But, this year is a whole new ball game and many eager athletes will be battling for Strongman supremacy. And this is also the first year since 2014 (Los Angeles) that the WSM competition will be taking place in the United States.
Here are the events for 2019…
Qualification events
- Event 1 – Truck Pull
- Event 2 – Super Yoke
- Event 3 – Overhead Press
- Event 4 – Deadlift
- Event 5 – Last Man Standing
Final round events
- Event 1 – Loading Race (medley)
- Event 2 – Deadlift
- Event 3 – Overhead Press (medley)
- Event 4 – Squat Lift
- Event 5 – Atlas Stones
These events are the events as of now but of course, they could be subject to changes.
Now, last year’s event took place in Manila, Philippines, where Bjornsson of Iceland took 1st, followed by Mateusz Kieliszkowski from Poland placing second, and the four-time WSM winner Brian Shaw of the United States taking third.
This year will be an exciting event and we can’t wait to see who will raise the trophy but Hafthor Bjornsson is looking very promising after a stellar 2018 winning the Arnold Classic and this year isn’t looking much different seeing as he broke the Elephant bar deadlift world record with a 474 kg/1,045 lb lift at the 2019 ASC.
But, we’re just a month away and everyone will be watching to see how the whole event unfolds.
