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- ↑ Youngest person to enter the World's strongest Man competition:
World's Strongest Man, Arild Haugen was aged just 20 years and 258 days old at the 2006 World's Strongest Man event held in Sanya, China on 14–23 September. - ↑ Arild Hulk Haugen, Facebook
- ↑ "Official web site". Archived from the original on 2007-03-20. Retrieved 2019-05-26.
- ↑ "Haugen's Page on Box Rec". Archived from the original on 2015-03-18. Retrieved 2009-12-14.
