Yesterday he locked up the title and today he put the frosting on the cake: in a blazing time, Mariusz Pudzianowski won the final event in the 2005 MET-Rx World's Strongest Man contest. Tarmo Mitt was second in the stones, Dave Ostlund was third, Elbrus Nigmatulin was fourth and Jesse Marunde was fifth. Marunde lost time when he had to reset the first stone, and Jarek Dymek tore a biceps in the event.

Here are the final, official places of the 2005 MET-Rx World's Strongest Man contest:

1. Mariusz Pudzianowski
2. Jesse Marunde
3. Dominic Filiou
4. Jarek Dymek
5. Janne Virtanen
6. Tarmo Mitt
7. Ralf Ber
8. Don Pope
9. Dave Ostlund
10. Elbrus Nigmatulin

Broadcast live, this final event was once again attended by very large, enthusiastic crowds of people who were chanting the competitors' names - strongman might not have been too well known in China before this, but that has all changed since WSM came to town.