Strongman Super Series

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World Strongman Super Series
The official logo of World Strongman Super Series 2010
Founded2001; 23 years ago (2001)
Ceased2010
Last
champion(s)		United States Brian Shaw
Tournament formatMulti-event competition

The Strongman Super Series, known from 2001 to 2004 as the IFSA World Strongman Super Series, from 2005 to 2008 as the World's Strongest Man Super Series, and reverting in 2009 to the World Strongman Super Series, is a sequence of grand prix events in the sport of strength athletics. It was introduced in 2001 in response to concerns that, unlike other individual sports such as golf or tennis, there was no recognized international "tour" in strength athletics. The Strongman Super Series ensures that there are a number of high-profile, professionally run contests during the year, with competitors' placings being used to decide the overall Super Series Champion.

Typically, ten to twelve athletes take part in each GP, comprising the top six in the international rankings and at least four qualifiers or wildcard entries. The winner of each grand prix receives ten series points, the second placed, nine, and so on. The highest scoring competitor at the end of the series is named World Champion.

World Class Events ("WCE") ran the Super Series in co-operation with the International Federation of Strength Athletes ("IFSA") from 2001 to 2004 until IFSA cut ties with WCE and World's Strongest Man and began promoting their own grand prix events and world championships. In 2005, WCE signed a deal with Trans World International ("TWI"), the world's largest independent producer and distributor of sports programming, to have the exclusive rights worldwide to be the only qualifying tour to the MET-Rx World's Strongest Man event for 2005–2008.[1] The top four athletes from each Grand Prix competition receive an automatic invitation to WSM.

On April 27, 2009 Giants Live, an arena-based series of live strongman competitions, was named the Official World's Strongest Man Qualifying Tour for 2009–2011, thus taking over from the Strongman Super Series in this regard. The first 2009 qualifying event took place on May 17 at the Mohegan Sun Casino in Uncasville, Connecticut, and the second event being the Viking Power competition in Norway, and finishing off the 2009 season in Poland.[2]

Super Series World Champions[edit]

Year Athlete Nationality
2001 Magnus Samuelsson  Sweden
2002 Hugo Girard  Canada
2003/4 Mariusz Pudzianowski  Poland
2004 Žydrūnas Savickas  Lithuania
2005* Mariusz Pudzianowski  Poland
2006* Mariusz Pudzianowski  Poland
2007* Mariusz Pudzianowski  Poland
2008* Derek Poundstone  United States
2009 Brian Shaw  United States
2010 Brian Shaw  United States

*WSM Super Series

2001[edit]

See also: International Federation of Strength Athletes

The International Federation of Strength Athletes co-produced the Strongman Super Series events from 2001 to 2004 along with World Class Events (WCE)/Ulf Bengtsson.

The official logo of IFSA World Strongman Super Series from 2001 to 2004
Name and Location Champion Runner-Up 3rd Place Date
Netherlands Netherlands
Holland Grand Prix[3]
 Netherlands Wout Zijlstra Sweden Magnus Samuelsson Norway Svend Karlsen 20 May 2001
Czech Republic Prague, Czech Republic
Czech Grand Prix[4]
 Canada Hugo Girard Norway Svend Karlsen Sweden Magnus Samuelsson 18 August 2001
Sweden Stockholm, Sweden
Sweden Grand Prix[5]
 Sweden Magnus Samuelsson Canada Hugo Girard Norway Svend Karlsen 28 October 2001
Overall placings
 Sweden Magnus Samuelsson
(15 points) 		Canada Hugo Girard
(13 points) 		Norway Svend Karlsen
(13 points)

2002[edit]

Name and Location Champion Runner-Up 3rd Place Date
Scotland Aberdeen, Scotland
Scotland Grand Prix
 Norway Svend Karlsen Canada Hugo Girard Finland Janne Virtanen 16 June 2002
Sweden Stockholm, Sweden
Sweden Grand Prix[6][7]
 Canada Hugo Girard Norway Svend Karlsen Lithuania Žydrūnas Savickas 23 November 2002
United States Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
Hawaii Grand Prix[8]
 Canada Hugo Girard Lithuania Žydrūnas Savickas Poland Mariusz Pudzianowski 17 January 2003[note 1]
Overall placings[8]
 Canada Hugo Girard
(17 points) 		Norway Svend Karlsen
(13 points) 		Lithuania Žydrūnas Savickas
9 points)
  1. ^ Although held in 2003 the 2002 Hawaii Grand Prix was the final event of the 2002 Strongman Super Series and was not a part of, and had no effect on, the 2003 series.[9]

2003[edit]

Name and Location Champion Runner-Up 3rd Place Date
United States Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
Hawaii Grand Prix [10]
 Poland Mariusz Pudzianowski Latvia Raimonds Bergmanis Lithuania Žydrūnas Savickas 18 January 2003
Netherlands Silvolde, Netherlands
Holland Grand Prix[11]
 Poland Mariusz Pudzianowski Lithuania Žydrūnas Savickas Netherlands Jarno Hams 14 June 2003
Canada North Bay, Canada
Canada Grand Prix[12]
 Canada Hugo Girard Poland Mariusz Pudzianowski Norway Svend Karlsen 1 August 2003
Finland Imatra, Finland
Finland Grand Prix[13]
 Canada Hugo Girard Poland Mariusz Pudzianowski Latvia Raimonds Bergmanis 16 August 2003
United States Columbus, Ohio, United States
2004 Arnold's Strongest Man[14]
 Lithuania Žydrūnas Savickas Norway Svend Karlsen Latvia Raimonds Bergmanis 5-6 March 2004[note 1]
Overall placings
 Poland Mariusz Pudzianowski Lithuania Žydrūnas Savickas Latvia Raimonds Bergmanis
  1. ^ Although held in 2004 the 2004 Arnold's Strongest Man was the final event of the 2003 Strongman Super Series and was not apart of and had no effect on the 2004 series.

2004[edit]

Name and Location Champion Runner-Up 3rd Place Date
Russia Moscow, Russia
Moscow Grand Prix[15]
 Poland Mariusz Pudzianowski Lithuania Žydrūnas Savickas Ukraine Vasyl Virastyuk 11 July 2004
Sweden Gothenburg, Sweden
Sweden Grand Prix[16]
 Sweden Magnus Samuelsson Lithuania Žydrūnas Savickas Norway Svend Karlsen 5 December 2004
Overall placings
 Lithuania Žydrūnas Savickas Ukraine Vasyl Virastyuk Poland Mariusz Pudzianowski/
Sweden Magnus Samuelsson

2005[edit]

Beginning in 2005, WSM/WCE cut all ties with IFSA, who had begun promoting their own separate grand prix events and world championships. The Strongman Super Series then became known as the World's Strongest Man Super Series and was the official qualifying tour for World's Strongest Man from 2005 to 2008.

The official logo of World's Strongest Man Super Series from 2005 to 2008
Name and Location Champion Runner-Up 3rd Place Date
United States Los Angeles, California, United States
Met-Rx Grand Prix[17]
 Poland Mariusz Pudzianowski United States Jesse Marunde Finland Janne Virtanen 18 June 2005
Poland Malbork, Poland
Nautilus Grand Prix[18]
 Poland Mariusz Pudzianowski Poland Slawomir Toczek United States Jesse Marunde 16 July 2005
Sweden Varberg, Sweden
Vulkan Grand Prix[19]
 Poland Mariusz Pudzianowski Finland Janne Virtanen United States Jesse Marunde 30 July 2005
United States Uncansville, Connecticut, United States
Mohegan Sun Grand Prix[20]
 Poland Mariusz Pudzianowski Canada Jessen Paulin United States Don Pope 10 August 2005
Overall placings
 Poland Mariusz Pudzianowski United States Jesse Marunde Finland Janne Virtanen

2006[edit]

Name and Location Champion Runner-Up 3rd Place Date
United States Uncansville, Connecticut, United States
Mohegan Sun Grand Prix[21]
 Poland Mariusz Pudzianowski United States Jesse Marunde United States Josh Thigpen 1 June 2006
Russia Moscow, Russia
Moscow Grand Prix[22]
 Poland Mariusz Pudzianowski Russia Elbrus Nigmatullin Canada Jessen Paulin 2 July 2006
Poland Milicz, Poland
Poland Grand Prix[23]
 Poland Mariusz Pudzianowski Poland Jarek Dymek Poland Sebastian Wenta 12 August 2006
Overall placings
 Poland Mariusz Pudzianowski

2007[edit]

Name and Location Champion Runner-Up 3rd Place Date
United States Uncansville, Connecticut, United States
Mohegan Sun Grand Prix[24]
 Poland Mariusz Pudzianowski United States Kevin Nee United Kingdom Mark Felix 22 April 2007
United States Los Angeles, California, United States
Venice Beach Grand Prix[25]
 United States Dave Ostlund Poland Mariusz Pudzianowski United States Jesse Marunde 16 June 2007
Norway Gol, Norway
Viking Power Challenge[26]
 Poland Mariusz Pudzianowski Poland Jarek Dymek Sweden Magnus Samuelsson 7 July 2007
Overall placings
 Poland Mariusz Pudzianowski

2008[edit]

Name and Location Champion Runner-Up 3rd Place Date
United States Uncansville, Connecticut, United States
Mohegan Sun Grand Prix[27]
 United States Derek Poundstone Poland Mariusz Pudzianowski United Kingdom Terry Hollands 19 January 2008
United States New York City, New York, United States
Madison Square Garden Grand Prix[28]
 United States Travis Ortmayer United States Derek Poundstone United States Dave Ostlund 21 June 2008
Norway Gol, Norway
Viking Power Challenge[29]
 Norway Arild Haugen Poland Sebastian Wenta Norway Richard Skog 5 July 2008
Sweden Lysekil, Sweden
Sweden Grand Prix[30]
 Sweden Magnus Samuelsson Estonia Tarmo Mitt Norway Richard Skog 16 August 2008
Overall placings
 United States Derek Poundstone

2009[edit]

Giants Live replaced the World's Strongest Man Super Series beginning in 2009 as the official qualifying tour for the World's Strongest Man. However, Strongman Super Series continued to hold events under the new title of World Strongman Super Series in 2009 & 2010.[31]

Name and Location Champion Runner-Up 3rd Place Date
Romania Bucharest, Romania
Romania Grand Prix[32]
 United States Marshall White United States Nick Best Sweden Johannes Arsjo 4 July 2009
United States Los Angeles, California, United States
Venice Beach Grand Prix[33]
 United States Brian Shaw Bulgaria Stoyan Todorchev United States Jason Bergmann 14 November 2009
Sweden Gothenburg, Sweden
Sweden Grand Prix[34]
 United States Brian Shaw Bulgaria Stoyan Todorchev United States Jason Bergmann 5 December 2009
Overall placings[34]
 United States Brian Shaw (27 points) Bulgaria Stoyan Todorchev (24 points) United States Nick Best (21 points)

2010[edit]

Name and Location Champion Runner-Up 3rd Place Date
United States Uncansville, Connecticut, United States
Mohegan Sun Grand Prix[35]
 United States Derek Poundstone United States Brian Shaw Bulgaria Stoyan Todorchev 25 April 2010
Norway Gol, Norway
Viking Power Challenge[36]
 United States Brian Shaw Sweden Johannes Arsjo United Kingdom Laurence Shahlaei 26 June 2010
Sweden Lysekil, Sweden
Sweden Grand Prix[37]
 United States Brian Shaw United States Nick Best United Kingdom Laurence Shahlaei 17 December 2010
Overall placings[37]
 United States Brian Shaw
(33 points) 		United States Dave Ostlund
(19.5 points) 		United Kingdom Laurence Shahlaei
(16 points)

See also[edit]

References[edit]

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External links[edit]

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