1998 "World's Strongest Man" winner Magnus Samuelsson (Sweden) will be competing in this year's "Beauty & The Beast" contest.

The field for this event, which is an IFSA Grand Prix, will include some of the highest ranked competitors on the professional strongman circuit: '98 WSM finalists Hugo Girard (Canada) and Phil Pfister (USA) have been added to the list of confirmed competitors, which already included '97 WSM winner Jouko Ahola (Finland).