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ANDREAS HARALAMBOUS SAVVIDES

Andreas H. Savvides was a famous Cypriot strongman, athlete, and writer. "He was an active member of EOKA (= National Organization of Cypriot Fighters) in his youth. He was arrested, accused of sabotage and later tortured in the notirious Red House by the British colonialists". [1]

"Andreas Savvides was known as the 'Hercules of Cyprus' because of his supernatural strength and feats.[2]

As a professional athlete he gave exhibitions of strength in many countries. His exhibition program both in Cyprus and abroad, included the following strength feats:

  • Bending thick iron bars and transforming them into spiral shape.
  • Breaking thick chains with his hands.
  • Breaking bundles of thick, six-inch asteel nails with his hands and teeth.
  • They were breaking large rocks on his head, and also on his abdomen while lying on a board with pointed steel nails,with a heavy hammer.
  • A bus full of passengers or a loaded lorry was driven over his abdomen.
  • Towing with his teeth a bus full of passengers on an uphill road to a distance of 100 meters.
  • Propping his head and feet on the ground forming an arch with his body, an iron beam was put on his abdomen, and then 30-40 persons were sitting on it for ten minutes.
  • Closing his hands and 30-40 persons, by the use of ropes, were trying unsuccessfully to open them.
  • Immobilizing two moving cars, usually Land Rovers, roped and chained around his arms.

In 1964, in Damascus, he held back from galloping 20 crazed horses roped around his arms. He repeated this feat in Aleppo, but with 18 horses. In the same month, in Aleppo, he held back from taking off a military helicopter roped and chained on his right arm, while his left arm was roped and chained on a big tree. [3]

Notes

  1. ^ (a) Cyprus Mail, March 12, 1995, Michele Kambas, "HERCULES IN UNIFORM", Nicosia, (b)Phileleftheros, March 11, 1995, Maria Georgiou, "ΥΠΑΣΤΥΝΟΜΟΣ ΑΝΔΡΕΑΣ ΣΑΒΒΙΔΗΣ: Ένας σύγχρονος Ηρακλής στους κόλπους της Αστυνομίας μας" = "INSPECTOR ANDREAS SAVVIDES: a contemporary Hercules in the bossom of our Police", Nicosia.
  2. ^ (a) See 1(a) above, (b) See 1(b) above, (c) O Agon, June 2, 1991, "ΠΑΛΙΕΣ ΔΟΞΕΣ ΤΟΥ ΑΘΛΗΤΙΣΜΟΥ: Ο ΗΡΑΚΛΗΣ ΤΗΣ ΚΥΠΡΟΥ - Ο Αθλητής με τα επικίνδυνα κατορθώματα, ΑΝΔΡΕΑΣ ΣΑΒΒΙΔΗΣ" = "OLD GLORIES OF ATHETICS: THE HERCULES OF CYPRUS - The athlete with the dangerous feats, ANDREAS SAVVIDES", Nicosia.
  3. ^ (a) See 1(a) above, (b) See 1(b) above, (c) See 2(c) above.

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