Meanwhile in the UK … at Europe’s Strongest Man 2014.
After his 445kg with straps earlier this year, Benedikt Magnusson got a 461kg Deadlift (1016lbs) for a new Strongman World Record (w/straps & Deadlift Suit).
Eddie Hall pulled the same weight, but dropped it (video at the bottom of this post).
In other news: Hafthor won ESM and only 5 athletes finished the entire competition. Too many injuries!
Also watch Benni’s 460kg (1015lbs) Deadlift without straps here.
Brian Shaw did not compete after tweaking his hip last week.
Lifts as they happened: (via sugden)
- Mikhail Koklyaev pulled 400kg … “tore a muscle in his back during the warm up”, but gave it a go
- Hafthor Bjornson’s 400kg
- Benedikt Magnusson 400kg
- Laurence Shahlaei 400kg
- Hafthor 420kg
- Mark Felix 420kg
- Martin Wildauer 435kg
- Eddie Hall had to pull 435kg twice, because it slipped before lockout the first time. He then held the next one “for about 30 seconds”.
England's @eddiehallWSM taking an interview while holding 435 kg… #strength #EuropesStrongestMan pic.twitter.com/jx7UhTZQ1o
— Muscle & Fitness UK (@MuscleFitnessUK) August 9, 2014
- Laurence Shahlaei 435kg
- Andy Bolton miss 446
- Benni hits 446 hit
- Laurence failed 446 “looks injured apparently”
- Eddie Hall 446kg
- Benni 461kg – new world record
- Eddie Hall also pulls 461kg, but dropped it. He drops out of the rest of the competition due to injury.
Here is Eddie Hall’s 461kg Deadlift (no rep).
i first read twerking his hip in stead of tweaking. :p
too bad hall dropped his rep. All that effort for nothing
Wait, did Eddie lift 461 hook grip? Madness.
A week ago MyProtein uploaded a video of Benni deadlifting and it looked suited, someone helped him in.
with straps I think.
Yes after looking again carefully, I agree.
Which makes me wonder why he dropped it.
He said something on his Facebook about it:
“Then pulled a 461kg world record deadlift….Given the down signal then fucked it up by dropping it.
A mistake I will never make again. Rules are rules but I pulled that 461kg deadlift from A-B end of story. May not be a paper lift but I will be remembered for doing it regardless.
Strongman is an A-B realm and always has been unless safety comes into play, if we’re going to start A-B-C everything it should be everything. Then we can train correctly. Iv trained A-B and dunk it all my life (strongman style) so my own bad for not forgetting how iv always done it.
People asking “why you drop it” like I fucking meant too! Yes I was told in the rules but…
I think a world record, huge adrenaline rush, 7000 fans chanting my name, and 10 years of apparently miss training was why I dropped it!!!
I know I can do more so fuck it, il come back and do more in my fucking pyjamas and lower it to the floor slower than a turtle taking a shit if I have too!
Sometime a harsh set back is needed for that extra push in life.
Head high now and soldier on. What don’t kill you makes you stronger.
Il be honest though that deadlift nearly fucking killed me lol.”
hall is amazing.
will be statically the strongest man of all time in 2 to 3 years
Just guesswork, but I think that looked harder than previously because of the IPF/Eleiko bar and not one of those thinner American ones.
Look closely at Benni’s straps after the 461. Loops around both ways–I’ve never seen that before. Basically impossible to drop. Hall should have used those and he’d have had the lift!
You can get a better view of them in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR0PmBAMlJ8
I never thought about straps like that, but it’s pretty clever really
There is a youtube video of Eddie Hall lifting 9×360 kg – or actually 8 times since he also drops the last rep in that video. Maybe it’s just a bad habit of not completing your deadlift.