The 1998 World's Strongest Man was the 21st edition of World's Strongest Man and was won by Magnus Samuelsson from Sweden. It was his first title after finishing third the previous year. 1997 champion Jouko Ahola from Finland finished second, and Wout Zijlstra from the Netherlands finished third. This year had 10 qualifying heats with the winner of each heat going on to the finals. Half the field were injured during the finals of the contest, as well as several heat winners prior to the finals such as Flemming Rasmussen and Gerrit Badenhorst. The contest was held in Tangier/Tétouan, Morocco.[1]
1998 World's Strongest Man | |
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Competition information | |
Dates | 8-18 October 1998 |
Location | Tangier |
Country | Morocco |
Athletes participating | 40 |
Nations participating | 23 |
Champion(s) | |
Magnus Samuelsson | |
Heats edit
Group 1 edit
Position | Name | Nationality | Points |
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1. | Riku Kiri | Finland | 14.5 |
2. | Torben Sorrenson | Denmark | 11 |
3. | Jaromir Nemec | Czech Republic | 8 |
4. | Ralph Williams | United States | 4.5 (injured) |
Group 2 edit
Position | Name | Nationality | Points |
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1. | Flemming Rasmussen | Denmark | 14 (injured) |
2. | Russ Bradley | England | 10 |
2. | Martin Muhr | Germany | 10 |
4. | Ginaud Dupuis | Canada | 6 |
Group 3 edit
Position | Name | Nationality | Points |
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1. | Pieter de Bruyn | South Africa | 13 |
2. | Heinz Ollesch | Germany | 13 |
3. | Glenn Ross | Northern Ireland | 9 |
4. | Terry Brennan | United States | 5 |
Group 4 edit
Position | Name | Nationality | Points |
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1. | Wout Zijlstra | Netherlands | 14 |
2. | Derek Boyer | Fiji | 12 |
3. | Kurt Kvikkstad | Norway | 7 |
3. | Fraser Tranter | England | 7 |
Group 5 edit
Position | Name | Nationality | Points |
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1. | Gerrit Badenhorst | South Africa | 14 (injured) |
2. | Lee Bowers | England | 10.5 |
3. | Ralf Ber | Austria | 10.5 |
4. | Gustavo Pujadas | Spain | 5 |
Group 6 edit
Position | Name | Nationality | Points |
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1. | Magnus Samuelsson | Sweden | 15 |
2. | Jamie Barr | Scotland | 10.5 |
3. | Wayne Price | South Africa | 10 |
4. | Michael Abdullah | Japan | 4.5 |
Group 7 edit
Position | Name | Nationality | Points |
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1. | Berend Veneberg | Netherlands | 13 |
2. | László Fekete | Hungary | 11 |
3. | Žydrūnas Savickas | Lithuania | 9 |
4. | Ken Brown | United States | 7 |
Group 8 edit
Position | Name | Nationality | Points |
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1. | Torfi Ólafsson | Iceland | 13 |
2. | Janne Virtanen | Finland | 13 |
3. | Phil Pfister | United States | 10 |
4. | Alexander Matveev | Russia | 0 (injured) |
Group 9 edit
Position | Name | Nationality | Points |
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1. | Mark Philippi | United States | 16 |
2. | Evgeny Popov | Bulgaria | 11 |
3. | Bill Lyndon | Australia | 9 |
4. | Vladimir Turchinsky | Russia | 4 |
Group 10 edit
Position | Name | Nationality | Points |
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1. | Jouko Ahola | Finland | 15 |
2. | Hugo Girard | Canada | 12 |
3. | Stuart Murray | Scotland | 7 |
4. | Gunnar Thor | Iceland | 6 |
Final results edit
# | Name | Nationality | Pts |
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1 | Magnus Samuelsson | Sweden | 73 |
2 | Jouko Ahola | Finland | 67 |
3 | Wout Zijlstra | Netherlands | 62 |
4 | Phil Pfister | United States | 51 |
5 | Pieter de Bruyn | South Africa | 46 |
6 | Riku Kiri | Finland | 26 (injured) |
7 | Torfi Olafsson | Iceland | 19 (injured) |
8 | Mark Philippi | United States | 18 (injured) |
9 | Berend Veneberg | Netherlands | 9 (injured) |
10 | Hugo Girard | Canada | 5 (injured) |
References edit
- ^ a b "theworldsstrongestman.com". Archived from the original on 4 January 2010. Retrieved 2010-01-13.