World's Strongest Team

World's Strongest Team
Tournament information
Sport	Strongman
Location	Various locations
Established	1995
Format	Multi-event competition
Teams	6-8

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	Jamie Reeves Gary Taylor Forbes Cowan	Berend Veneberg Tjalling van den Bosch Ted van der Parre	Gerrit Badenhorst Wayne Price Anton Boucher	Isle of Wight, England
1996	Magnus Ver Magnusson Torfi Ólafsson Gunnar Þór Guðjónsson	Jouko Ahola Riku Kiri Jorma Ojanaho	Manfred Hoeberl Heinz Ollesch Martin Muhr	Reykjavík, Iceland
1997	Riku Kiri Jouko Ahola	Hannu Osala Jukka Laine	Magnus Ver Magnusson Torfi Olafsson	Vaasa, Finland
1998	Berend Veneberg Wout Zijlstra	Jouko Ahola Sami Heinonen	Magnus Samuelsson Torbjorn Samuelsson	Hardenberg, Netherlands
1999	Jouko Ahola Janne Virtanen	Magnus Samuelsson Torbjorn Samuelsson	Mariusz Pudzianowski Jarek Dymek	Panyu, China
2000	Janne Virtanen Pasi Paavisto	Mariusz Pudzianowski Jarek Dymek	Berend Veneberg Wout Zijlstra	Cserkeszőlő, Hungary
2001	Janne Virtanen Juha-Matti Räsänen	Jarek Dymek Ireneusz Kuras	Wout Zijlstra Jarno Hams	Gdynia, Poland
2002	Janne Virtanen Juha-Matti Räsänen	Berend Veneberg Wout Zijlstra	Mariusz Pudzianowski Jarek Dymek	Heerenveen, Netherlands
2003	Mariusz Pudzianowski Jarek Dymek	László Fekete Tibor Mészáros	Mark Phillipi Jesse Marunde	Pécs, Hungary
2004	Mariusz Pudzianowski Jarek Dymek	Zydrunas Savickas Vilius Petrauskas	Raimonds Bergmanis Agris Kazelniks	Płock, Poland
2005	Mariusz Pudzianowski Slawomir Toczek	Elbrus Nigmatulin Mikhail Koklyaev	Raivis Vidzis Rolands Gulbis	Poznań, Poland
2006	Edwin Hakvoort Jarno Hams	László Fekete Miklós Fekete	Juha-Matti Räsänen Tomi Lotta	Sárvár, Hungary
2007	Zydrunas Savickas Vidas Blekaitis	Mikhail Koklyaev Igor Pedan	Derek Poundstone Tom McClure	Vilnius, Lithuania
2012 ^[1]	The Vikings Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson Jarno Jokinen	Baltic Barbarians Tarmo Mitt Markus Männik	English Saxons Eddie Hall Simon Flint	Mullingar, Ireland
2014	The Yankees Brian Shaw Dave Ostlund	The Saxons Terry Hollands Eddie Hall	The Barbarians Ervin Katona Graham Hicks	Stoke-on-Trent, England
2015 ^[2]	The Vikings Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson Matjaz Belsak	The Saxons Eddie Hall Mark Felix	The Yankees Jerry Pritchett Mike Burke	Stoke-on-Trent, England
2018	Vytautas Lalas Marius Lalas	Martins Licis Trey Mitchell	Phil Roberts Tom Stoltman	Stoke-on-Trent, England
2019	Jean-François Caron Krzysztof Radzikowski	Rauno Heinla Rob Kearney	Mikhail Shivlyakov Matjaz Belsak	Nottingham, England
2021	Dainis Zageris Aivars Šmaukstelis	Johan Espenkrona Sean O'Hagan	Kelvin de Ruiter George Sulaiman	Joensuu, Finland
2022	Dainis Zageris Aivars Šmaukstelis	Ervin Toots Gunnar Gimbutas	Kelvin de Ruiter George Sulaiman	Joensuu, Finland
2023	Oskar Ziolkowski Adam Roszkowski	Aivars Šmaukstelis Maris Krievelis	Ervin Toots Gunnar Gimbutas	Kalajoki, Finland

Results courtesy of www.strengthresults.com and David Horne's World of Grip

References

^ 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)
^ Triana, Andrew (4 June 2015). "Huge Weekend For Strongman: World Records Fall and One Team Rises". www.elitefts.com. Retrieved 2015-06-04.

External links

[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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