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International Federation of Strength Athletes
TypeSports federation
HeadquartersGlasgow, Scotland
Official language
English
Managing Director
Christian Fennell

The International Federation of Strength Athletes (IFSA or IFSA Strongman) was an international governing body for strongman competition. IFSA operated from 1995 to 2007 and was based in Glasgow, Scotland.[1]

History

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Origins

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In 1995, David Webster, a Scotsman who later received an OBE for his services to sport and head coordinator of the World's Strongest Man from its inception, and his colleague Dr Douglas Edmunds, seven-times Scottish shot and discus champion and twice world caber champion,[2] along with representatives from the competitors in strength athletics including Jamie Reeves, Ilkka Kinnunen and Marcel Mostert formed a governing body called the International Federation of Strength Athletes ("IFSA"). IFSA ran its own grand prix events from 1995 to 2001 in cooperation with WSM. IFSA began co-producing the Strongman Super Series events from 2001 to 2004, still in cooperation with WSM. IFSA entered an agreement with World Class Events (WCE), headed by Ulf Bengtsson, to run the Strongman Super Series. The Strongman Super Series was designed to award the annual Strongman World Championship title, but also acted as a qualifying vehicle for the World's Strongest Man contest.

Split with WSM

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For almost a decade IFSA and WSM worked in full cooperation, but this changed at the end of the 2004 season when IFSA returned to organizing its own grand prix events and World Strongman Championships from 2005 to 2007. The InvestGroup Ventures' sports rights management arm, InvestGroup Sports Management, invested heavily into IFSA and this led to the creation of IFSA Strongman. The strategy was to acquire most of the international assets and properties relating to the strongman sport. In essence this was a new organization[3] with some, such as Magnus Samuelsson describing it as "a new company...with the same name as our old federation".[4] The attempt at dominance was not well received by TWI/WSM and disagreement ensued leading to a split in the sport. When IFSA and WSM split in 2004, the Strongman Super Series sided with TWI/WSM forming a rival federation to the IFSA.[3] With the WSM being a TWI owned event, IFSA Holdings announced its own World Strongman Championships for 2005, to be held in Quebec, and thus from that point had no involvement in the WSM contest. From this point, IFSA continued to organize the annual IFSA World Strongman Championships and a series of Grand Prix events throughout the year. Between 2005 and 2007 IFSA had their own version of other major events such as a rival IFSA version of Europe's Strongest Man, known as Europe's Strongest Man (IFSA).

Thus, the world of strength athletics became fragmented, with a number of individuals being able to lay claim to be the strongest in the world by virtue of having won mutually exclusive events. Athletes affiliated to IFSA Strongman were not allowed to compete in the World's Strongest Man ("WSM"), which is produced by TWI and thus neither WSM and its associated Strongman Super Series nor the IFSA circuit could claim to have a comprehensive field of the top athletes. Some events did exist that bridged the divide between the major organizations, such as the Arnold Strongman Classic and Fortissimus.

Dissolution of IFSA/birth of SCL

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After the 2007 IFSA World Championships in South Korea, news began to circulate of athletes not being paid, and equipment shipping costs not being honored.[5] IFSA eventually ended up owing $63,000[5] for shipping their equipment from England to South Korea and finally to Philadelphia. When the money was not paid, the equipment was put up for sale and was eventually purchased by other strongman contest promoters.[6] The 2007 IFSA World Championships would be the final contest run solely by, and under the banner of, IFSA.

In 2008 IFSA executives Ilkka Kinnunen and Marcel Mostert developed the Strongman Champions League and negotiated with IFSA to use its athletes. However, the dissolution of IFSA meant that since the end of 2007, the Strongman Champions League still operated independent of IFSA. Gradually, the last vestiges of IFSA influence began to diminish which led to the breaking down of barriers between the various concurrent circuits. Strength athletes were able to compete in more than one circuit and did so, with a cross over of athletes between the Giants Live circuit, the Strongman Champions League and the Strongman Super Series being apparent. The 2009 World's Strongest Man was therefore anticipated by the strength athletics world as promising to be "the best one yet"[7] because the organisers could ensure invites were made to "every top athlete in the world" regardless of their affiliation to any particular strength athletics body.

IFSA Strongman World Championships

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IFSA Strongman World Championships
Founded2005
Ceased2007
Last
champion(s)		Ukraine Vasyl Virastyuk
(2007)
Tournament formatMulti-event competition

2005: IFSA Strongman World Championships

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Dates: 25 September 2005

Quebec City, Canada Canada

Position Name Country Points
1. Žydrūnas Savickas Lithuania 103
2. Vasyl Virastyuk Ukraine 96
3. Mikhail Koklyaev Russia 93.5
4. Andrus Murumets Estonia 86
5. Raimonds Bergmanis Latvia 84.5
6. Phil Pfister United States 82.5
7. Vidas Blekaitis Lithuania 81.5
8. Magnus Samuelsson Sweden 69
9. Robert Szczepanski Poland 67
10. Travis Ortmayer United States 64.5
11. Geoff Dolan Canada 54.5
12. Karl Gillingham United States 43

2006: IFSA Strongman World Championships

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Dates: 24, 25 November 2006

Reykjavik, Iceland Iceland

  • This was the first year that qualifying heats were used. There were 3 heats, with the top 4 from each heat moving on to the finals.
Position Name Country Points
1. Žydrūnas Savickas Lithuania 80.5
2. Mikhail Koklyaev Russia 78.5
3. Vasyl Virastyuk Ukraine 72
4. Vidas Blekaitis Lithuania 70
5. Andrus Murumets Estonia 55
6. Robert Szczepanski Poland 46.5
7. Benedikt Magnusson Iceland 44.5
8. Oli Thompson United Kingdom 43
9. Nick Best United States 38
10. Travis Ortmayer United States 35
11. Saulius Brusokas Lithuania 33.5
12. Ervin Katona Serbia 20.5

2007: IFSA Strongman World Championships

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Dates: 12–15 September 2007

Geumsan, South Korea South Korea

  • The 2007 competition included 6 qualifying heats, with the top 2 from each heat moving on to the finals.
Position Name Country Points
1. Vasyl Virastyuk Ukraine 57.5
2. Mikhail Koklyaev Russia 52.5
3. Žydrūnas Savickas Lithuania 51.5
4. Derek Poundstone United States 50.5
5. Andrus Murumets Estonia 46.5
6. Vidas Blekaitis Lithuania 41.5
7. Robert Szczepanski Poland 40
8. Van Hatfield United States 32.5
9. Saulius Brusokas Lithuania 29.5
10. Tom McClure United States 26
11. Ervin Katona Serbia 20.5
12. Jarno Hams Netherlands 17.5

Grand Prix events

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1995

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Name and Location Champion Runner-Up 3rd Place
Denmark Copenhagen, Denmark
World's Strongest Viking[8]
 Germany Heinz Ollesch Denmark Flemming Rasmussen Iceland Torfi Olaffson
Lithuania Klaipėda, Lithuania
Lithuania Grand Prix[9]
 United Kingdom Gary Taylor United Kingdom Forbes Cowan Lithuania Stasys Mėčius
Germany Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
Manfred Höberl Classic[10]
 Iceland Magnus Ver Magnusson Wales Gary Taylor Germany Heinz Ollesch
Scandinavia's Strongest Man
 Denmark Flemming Rasmussen

1996

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Name and Location Champion Runner-Up 3rd Place Date
Denmark Copenhagen, Denmark
World's Strongest Viking[11]
 Denmark Flemming Rasmussen Iceland Magnus Ver Magnusson Iceland Torfi Olaffson
Denmark Denmark
Denmark Grand Prix
 Finland Riku Kiri Iceland Magnus Ver Magnusson Denmark Flemming Rasmussen
Lithuania Klaipėda, Lithuania
Lithuania Grand Prix[12]
 Finland Riku Kiri Germany Heinz Ollesch Iceland Magnus Ver Magnusson 7 July 1996
Scandinavia's Strongest Man
 Denmark Flemming Rasmussen

1997

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Name and Location Champion Runner-Up 3rd Place
Netherlands Meerssen, Netherlands
European Open
 Finland Riku Kiri South Africa Gerrit Badenhorst Iceland Magnus Ver Magnusson
Denmark Copenhagen, Denmark
World's Strongest Viking[13]
 Denmark Flemming Rasmussen Finland Riku Kiri Iceland Magnus Ver Magnusson
Lithuania Klaipėda, Lithuania
Lithuania Grand Prix[14]
 Lithuania Stasys Mecius Latvia Raimonds Bergmanis Iceland Magnus Ver Magnusson
Scandinavia's Strongest Man
 Denmark Flemming Rasmussen

1998

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Name and Location Champion Runner-Up 3rd Place Date
Finland Helsinki, Finland
Helsinki Grand Prix[15]
 Sweden Magnus Samuelsson Finland Riku Kiri Norway Svend Karlsen 14 March 1998
Lithuania Klaipėda, Lithuania
Lithuania Grand Prix[16]
 United Kingdom Jamie Reeves Lithuania Raimunds Kencivikius South Africa Wayne Price 1 August 1998
Hungary Budapest, Hungary
Hungary Grand Prix[17]
 Finland Riku Kiri Denmark Flemming Rasmussen Hungary László Fekete 2 August 1998
Germany Arnbruck, Germany
Germany Grand Prix[18]
 Finland Riku Kiri Finland Jouko Ahola Germany Heinz Ollesch 5 September 1998
Faroe Islands Faroe Islands
Atlantic Giant[19]
 Sweden Magnus Samuelsson Finland Riku Kiri Norway Svend Karlsen

1999

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Name and Location Champion Runner-Up 3rd Place Date
Finland Helsinki, Finland
Finland Grand Prix[20]
 Finland Jouko Ahola Finland Sami Heinonen Finland Janne Virtanen 6 March 1999
Faroe Islands Faroe Islands
Atlantic Giant[21]
 Finland Jouko Ahola Faroe Islands Regin Vagadal Sweden Magnus Samuelsson 16 May 1999
Hungary Keszthely. Hungary
Hungary Grand Prix[22]
 Netherlands Berend Veneberg South Africa Gerrit Badenhorst Finland Jouko Ahola 18 July 1999
Netherlands Hardenberg, Netherlands
Holland Grand Prix[23]
 South Africa Gerrit Badenhorst Finland Jouko Ahola Netherlands Berend Veneberg 24 July 1999
Czech Republic Prague, Czech Republic
Czech Grand Prix[24]
 Sweden Magnus Samuelsson Finland Jouko Ahola American Samoa Joe Onosai 14 August 1999
Iceland Iceland
Viking of the North[25]
 Canada Hugo Girard Sweden Magnus Samuelsson Finland Janne Virtanen 17 October 1999
Nordic Strongman Championships
 Finland Matti Uppa

2000

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Name and Location Champion Runner-Up 3rd Place Date
Finland Helsinki, Finland
Finland Grand Prix[26]
 Finland Janne Virtanen Sweden Magnus Samuelsson Norway Svend Karlsen 18 March 2000
Republic of Ireland Ireland
Ireland Grand Prix[27]
 Sweden Magnus Samuelsson Finland Janne Virtanen Norway Svend Karlsen 30 April 2000
Poland Sopot, Poland
Poland Grand Prix[28]
 Sweden Magnus Samuelsson Finland Janne Virtanen Poland Jarek Dymek 25 June 2000
Faroe Islands Faroe Islands
Atlantic Giant[29]
 Faroe Islands Regin Vagadal Finland Janne Virtanen Sweden Magnus Samuelsson 2 September 2000
Czech Republic Prague, Czech Republic
Czech Grand Prix[30]
 Czech Republic Jan Bartl Norway Svend Karlsen Germany Martin Muhr 2 September 2000
Romania Bucharest, Romania
Romania Grand Prix[31]
 Sweden Magnus Samuelsson Finland Janne Virtanen Denmark Rene Minkwitz 16 September 2000
China Panyu, China
China Grand Prix[32]
 Sweden Magnus Samuelsson Canada Hugo Girard Finland Janne Virtanen 8 October 2000

2001

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Name and Location Champion Runner-Up 3rd Place Date
Poland Sopot, Poland
Poland Grand Prix[33]
 Poland Jarek Dymek Finland Janne Virtanen Norway Svend Karlsen 10 March 2007
Faroe Islands Faroe Islands
Atlantic Giant[34]
 Faroe Islands Regin Vágadal Finland Janne Virtanen Poland Jarek Dymek 28 July 2007
Finland Kokkola, Finland
Strongman World Record Breakers[35]
 Norway Svend Karlsen Netherlands Wout Zijlstra Denmark Rene Minkwitz 26 August 2007

2002

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Name and Location Champion Runner-Up 3rd Place Date
Poland Szczyrk, Poland
Winter Cup International[36]
 Finland Janne Virtanen Poland Jarek Dymek Canada Hugo Girard 9 February 2002
Finland Vantaa, Finland
Finland Grand Prix[37]
 Finland Janne Virtanen Norway Svend Karlsen Finland Juha-Matti Räsänen 20 April 2002
Turkey Istanbul, Turkey
Turkey Grand Prix[38]
 Finland Janne Virtanen Netherlands Wout Zijlstra Austria Bernd Kerschbaumer 18 May 2002
Finland Mariehamn, Finland
Åland Grand Prix[39]
 Sweden Jorma Paananen Denmark Rene Minkwitz Finland Harri Simonen 10 August 2002
Finland Imatra, Finland
Nordic Championships[40]
 Finland Juha-Matti Räsänen Denmark Rene Minkwitz Sweden Anders Johansson 17 August 2002
China Panyu, China
China Grand Prix[41]
 Norway Svend Karlsen Finland Juha-Matti Räsänen Lithuania Žydrūnas Savickas 20 October 2002

2003

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Name and Location Champion Runner-Up 3rd Place Date
Poland Inowrocław, Poland
Poland Grand Prix[42]
 Poland Jarek Dymek Poland Robert Szczepański Latvia Raimonds Bergmanis 12 April 2003
Finland Vantaa, Finland
Finland Grand Prix[43]
 Finland Janne Virtanen Poland Mariusz Pudzianowski Finland Juha-Matti Räsänen 17 May 2003
Canada Winnipeg, Canada
All Strength Challenge[44]
 United Kingdom Eddy Ellwood Estonia Andrus Murumets Netherlands Peter Baltus 15 June 2003
Finland Ylitornio, Finland
Ylitornio Challenge[45]
 Poland Mariusz Pudzianowski Finland Janne Virtanen Lithuania Vidas Blekaitis 28 June 2003
Poland Gdynia, Poland
Strongman World Record Breakers[46]
 Poland Mariusz Pudzianowski Poland Jarek Dymek Sweden Magnus Samuelsson 24 August 2003
Hungary Sopron, Hungary
Hungarian Strongman Challenge[47]
 Serbia Ervin Katona Hungary Ádám Darázs Finland Tomi Lotta 15 November 2003

2004

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Name and Location Champion Runner-Up 3rd Place Date
Latvia Jūrmala, Latvia
Baltic Strongest Man[48]
 Latvia Raimonds Bergmanis Lithuania Žydrūnas Savickas Lithuania Vilius Petrauskas 22 May 2004
Turkey Turkey
Turkey Champions Trophy[49]
 Poland Mariusz Pudzianowski Finland Tomi Lotta Norway Svend Karlsen 22 May 2004
Netherlands Doetinchem, Netherlands
Holland Champions Trophy[50]
 Poland Mariusz Pudzianowski Norway Svend Karlsen Lithuania Žydrūnas Savickas 13 June 2004
Ukraine Ukraine
Ukraine Grand Prix[48]
 Ukraine Vasyl Virastyuk Sweden Magnus Samuelsson Lithuania Žydrūnas Savickas 20 June 2004
Lithuania Šiauliai, Lithuania
CEKOL Cup[48]
 Lithuania Žydrūnas Savickas Ukraine Vasyl Virastyuk Poland Tomasz Nowotniak 3 July 2004
Latvia Riga, Latvia
All Strength Challenge[48]
 Poland Mariusz Pudzianowski Latvia Raimonds Bergmanis Ukraine Vasyl Virastyuk 18 July 2004
Hungary Szeged, Hungary
International Gold[51]
 Serbia Ervin Katona Lithuania Saulius Brusokas South Africa Ettiene Smit 11 September 2004

2005

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Beginning in 2005, IFSA cut all ties with World's Strongest Man and Strongman Super Series and began hosting their own grand prix events and world championships from 2005 to 2007.

Name and Location Champion Runner-Up 3rd Place Date
Hungary Szeged, Hungary
Hungary Grand Prix[52]
 Lithuania Žydrūnas Savickas Denmark Rene Minkwitz South Africa Ettiene Smit 1 May 2005
United Arab Emirates Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Dubai Grand Prix[52]
 Finland Tomi Lotta Poland Robert Szczepański Estonia Andrus Murumets 19 May 2005
Russia Moscow, Russia
Russia Grand Prix[52]
 Lithuania Žydrūnas Savickas Latvia Raimonds Bergmanis Russia Mikhail Koklyaev 6 June 2005
Netherlands Doetinchem, Netherlands
Holland Grand Prix[52]
 Finland Tomi Lotta Netherlands Jarno Hams Denmark Rene Minkwitz 12 June 2005
Hungary Hungary
West European Championships[52]
 Netherlands Jarno Hams Hungary Ádám Darázs Slovakia Jan Křeháček 25 June 2005
Latvia Riga, Latvia
European Championships[52]
 Lithuania Žydrūnas Savickas Finland Tomi Lotta Estonia Andrus Murumets 17 July 2005
Norway Kristiansand, Norway
Nordic Championships[52]
 Norway Svend Karlsen Sweden Magnus Samuelsson Finland Juha-Matti Räsänen 6 August 2005
Brazil São Paulo, Brazil
World Open[53]
 Russia Mikhail Koklyaev Norway Svend Karlsen Poland Robert Szczepański 20 August 2005
Brazil São Paulo, Brazil
Pan American Championships[54]
 United States Phil Pfister United States Travis Ortmayer United States Karl Gillingham 21 August 2005
Lithuania Šiauliai, Lithuania
CEKOL Cup[55]
 Lithuania Žydrūnas Savickas Lithuania Vilius Petrauskas Estonia Andrus Murumets 27 August 2005
Denmark Denmark
Denmark Grand Prix[54]
 Denmark Rene Minkwitz United States Van Hatfield Finland Juha-Pekka Aitala 20 November 2005

2006

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Name and Location Champion Runner-Up 3rd Place Date
Ukraine Kyiv, Ukraine
Ukrainian Open
 Lithuania Žydrūnas Savickas Denmark Rene Minkwitz South Africa Ettiene Smit 18 April 2006
United Arab Emirates Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Dubai Grand Prix[52]
 Lithuania Žydrūnas Savickas Canada Geoff Dolan Estonia Andrus Murumets 24 April 2006
Russia Moscow, Russia
Russia Grand Prix[52]
 Russia Mikhail Koklyaev Estonia Andrus Murumets Lithuania Žydrūnas Savickas 14 May 2006
United States Tulsa, Oklahoma
World Strongman Challenge[52]
 Lithuania Žydrūnas Savickas United States Derek Poundstone United States Jon Andersen 21 May 2006
Spain Salou, Spain
Spain Grand Prix[56]
 Finland Juha-Pekka Aitala Syria Simon Sulaiman Netherlands Jarno Hams 5 June 2006
Hungary Eger, Hungary
Hungary Grand Prix[52]
 Russia Mikhail Koklyaev Ukraine Vasyl Virastyuk United States Travis Ortmayer 5 June 2006
Netherlands Terborg, Netherlands
Holland Grand Prix[52]
 Lithuania Žydrūnas Savickas United States Jon Andersen Netherlands Jarno Hams 10 June 2006
Latvia Riga, Latvia
Latvia World Cup[52]
 Lithuania Žydrūnas Savickas Latvia Raimonds Bergmanis Russia Mikhail Koklyaev 18 July 2006
Finland Tornio, Finland
Finland Grand Prix[54]
 Estonia Andrus Murumets Poland Robert Szczepanski United States Steve MacDonald 5 August 2006
Ukraine Kyiv, Ukraine
Ukraine Grand Prix
 Ukraine Vasyl Virastyuk Lithuania Vidas Blekaitis Ukraine Oleksandr Pekanov 29 December 2006

United Strongman Series

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Name and Location Champion Runner-Up 3rd Place Date
Ukraine Kyiv, Ukraine
USS Kyiv[54]
 Poland Sebastian Wenta Russia Igor Pedan Ukraine Viktor Yurchenko 18 April 2006
Cyprus Limassol, Cyprus
USS Cyprus[52]
 United States Travis Ortmayer Russia Igor Pedan Latvia Raimonds Bergmanis 28 May 2006
Serbia Belgrade, Serbia
USS Belgrade[52]
 Serbia Ervin Katona Canada Geoff Dolan Poland Sebastian Wenta 20 June 2006
Russia Moscow, Russia
USS Moscow[57]
 Poland Sebastian Wenta Russia Igor Pedan Serbia Ervin Katona 1 July 2006
Lithuania Marijampolė, Lithuania
USS Lithuania[54]
 Lithuania Žydrūnas Savickas Lithuania Vidas Blekaitis Russia Igor Pedan 19 August 2006

2007

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Name and Location Champion Runner-Up 3rd Place Date
Latvia Riga, Latvia
Latvia Grand Prix[52][58]
 Estonia Andrus Murumets Ukraine Vasyl Virastyuk Lithuania Vidas Blekaitis 17 March 2007
Netherlands Ulft, Netherlands
Holland Grand Prix[52][59]
 Netherlands Jarno Hams South Africa Ettiene Smit Iceland Georg Ögmundsson 17 June 2007
Bulgaria Sofia, Bulgaria
Bulgaria Grand Prix[52]
 Poland Robert Szczepanski Finland Janne Illikainen Serbia Ervin Katona 23 June 2007
Ukraine Kyiv, Ukraine
European Championships[52][60]
 Ukraine Vasyl Virastyuk Estonia Andrus Murumets Lithuania Vidas Blekaitis 22 July 2007
Lithuania Klaipėda, Lithuania
Lithuania Grand Prix[52]
 Lithuania Žydrūnas Savickas Estonia Andrus Murumets Finland Janne Illikainen 28 July 2007
Finland Oulu, Finland
Finland Grand Prix[52][61]
 Estonia Andrus Murumets Finland Janne Illikainen Poland Robert Szczepanski 2 September 2007

Strongman Champions League

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Main article: Strongman Champions League

Developed by Ilkka Kinnunen and Marcel Mostert, the Strongman Champions League was launched in 2008 as "a new episode in strongman". It negotiated with IFSA to use its athletes. Since the end of 2008, the Strongman Champions League still operates independently after the dissolution of IFSA:

2008

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Name and Location Champion Runner-Up 3rd Place Date
Latvia Riga, Latvia
SCL Latvia[62]
 Lithuania Žydrūnas Savickas United States Travis Ortmayer Latvia Agris Kazelniks 22 March 2008
Serbia Subotica, Serbia
SCL Serbia[62]
 Lithuania Žydrūnas Savickas Serbia Ervin Katona Estonia Andrus Murumets 10 May 2008
Netherlands Varsseveld, Netherlands
SCL Holland[62]
 Lithuania Žydrūnas Savickas Estonia Andrus Murumets United States Travis Ortmayer 1 June 2008
Bulgaria Sofia, Bulgaria
SCL Bulgaria[62]
 Estonia Andrus Murumets Lithuania Žydrūnas Savickas Serbia Ervin Katona 21 June 2008
Lithuania Vilnius, Lithuania
SCL Lithuania[62]
 Lithuania Žydrūnas Savickas Lithuania Vidas Blekaitis Lithuania Saulius Brusokas 2 August 2008
Romania Constanța, Romania
SCL Romania[62]
 Lithuania Žydrūnas Savickas Serbia Ervin Katona Ukraine Oleksandr Lashyn 16 August 2008
Finland Kokkola, Finland
SCL Finland[62]
 Russia Mikhail Koklyaev Lithuania Žydrūnas Savickas Serbia Ervin Katona 29 August 2008
Overall placings[62]
 Lithuania Žydrūnas Savickas
130 points 		Serbia Ervin Katona
72 points 		Latvia Agris Kazelniks
60 points

Events were planned in the following locations but cancelled: Dubai, Germany and Hungary

UK Regional Competitions

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British Championships (IFSA)

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See also: Strength Athletics in the United Kingdom and Ireland
Year Champion Runner-Up 3rd Place
2005 England Mark Felix England Oli Thompson England Andrew Raynes

UK Championship (IFSA)

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Year Champion Runner-Up 3rd Place
1997 Scotland Stuart Murray England Steve Brooks England Russ Bradley
1999 Northern Ireland Glenn Ross TBC TBC

IFSA England's Strongest Man

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Year Champion Runner-Up 3rd Place
2005 England Eddy Ellwood England Mark Felix England Oli Thompson

See also

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