World’s Strongest Man: The Qualifying Heats

by Randall J. Strossen, IronMind Enterprises, Inc. © 2009

It’s not official and it might not be correct, but here’s IronMind’s guess at the qualifying heats for the 2009 World’s Strongest Man contest.

Ervin Katona
Alexander Klyushev
Jimmy Laureys
Phil Pfister
Mariusz Pudzianowski
Darren Sadler

Mark Felix
Stefan Solvi Petursson
Zydrunas Savickas
Brian Shaw
Marshall White
Martin Wildauer

Jarek Dymek
Terry Hollands

Andrus Murumets
Dave Ostlund
Christian Savoie
Florian Trimpl

Louis-Philippe Jean
Kostiantyn Ilin
Jimmy Marku
Kevin Nee
Derek Poundstone
Sebastian Wenta

Johannes Arsjo
Agris Kazelniks
Travis Ortmayer
Laurence Shahlaei
Richard Skog
Ettiene Smit

Stay tuned - the official announcement from World’s Strongest Man should be coming any day, we would guess.

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