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International Federation of Strength Athletes

For other uses, see IFSA (disambiguation).

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]

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

History edit

Origins edit

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 edit

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 edit

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 edit

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

2005: IFSA Strongman World Championships edit

Dates: 25 September 2005

Quebec City, Canada  

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

2006: IFSA Strongman World Championships edit

Dates: 24, 25 November 2006

Reykjavik, 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   80.5
2. Mikhail Koklyaev   78.5
3. Vasyl Virastyuk   72
4. Vidas Blekaitis   70
5. Andrus Murumets   55
6. Robert Szczepanski   46.5
7. Benedikt Magnusson   44.5
8. Oli Thompson   43
9. Nick Best   38
10. Travis Ortmayer   35
11. Saulius Brusokas   33.5
12. Ervin Katona   20.5

2007: IFSA Strongman World Championships edit

Dates: 12–15 September 2007

Geumsan, 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   57.5
2. Mikhail Koklyaev   52.5
3. Žydrūnas Savickas   51.5
4. Derek Poundstone   50.5
5. Andrus Murumets   46.5
6. Vidas Blekaitis   41.5
7. Robert Szczepanski   40
8. Van Hatfield   32.5
9. Saulius Brusokas   29.5
10. Tom McClure   26
11. Ervin Katona   20.5
12. Jarno Hams   17.5

Grand Prix events edit

1995 edit

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

1996 edit

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

1997 edit

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

1998 edit

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

1999 edit

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

2000 edit

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

2001 edit

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

2002 edit

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

2003 edit

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

2004 edit

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

2005 edit

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

2006 edit

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

United Strongman Series edit

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

2007 edit

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

Strongman Champions League edit

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 edit

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

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

UK Regional Competitions edit

British Championships (IFSA) edit

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

UK Championship (IFSA) edit

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

IFSA England's Strongest Man edit

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

See also edit

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External links edit

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