Paradise Island, Bahamas — The second event in the 2004 World's Strongest Man contest was just completed today.


Vasyl Virastiuk motors down the course in the refrigerator race. IronMind® | Randall J. Strossen, Ph.D. photo.

Although "refrigerator race" might conjure up images of something quite different, this event was a yoke, said to weigh 410 kg, and the competitors went one pair at a time down a 30-meter course. The pairs were: Raimonds Bergmanis and Svend Karlsen, Mariusz Pudzianowski and Zydrunas Savickas, and Vasyl Virastiuk and Magnus Samuelsson.

The action continues tomorrow.