Derek Boyer

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Derek Boyer
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Born (1969-06-14) 14 June 1969 (age 55)
Lautoka, Viti Levu, Fiji
NationalityFijian Australian
Occupation(s) Strongman, Powerlifting, Actor
Height193 cm (6 ft 4 in)
Title Australia's Strongest Man
Website www.derekboyer.com
Competition record
Strongman
Representing Flag of Fiji.svg  Fiji
World's Strongest Man
Qualified 1996 World's Strongest Man
9th 1997 World's Strongest Man
Qualified 1998 World's Strongest Man
Qualified 2000 World's Strongest Man
Qualified 2001 World's Strongest Man
Qualified 2002 World's Strongest Man
Qualified 2007 World's Strongest Man
Qualified 2011 World's Strongest Man
Fortissimus
10th2009
Australia's Strongest Man
1st2000
1st2001
1st2002
1st2003
1st2004
1st2005
1st2006
1st2007
1st2008
1st2009
1st2010
1st2011
Fit X Strongman Championships
1st2011
Powerlifting
Representing Flag of Fiji.svg  Fiji
WDFPF Raw World Powerlifting Championships [1]
1st2003145kg
WDFPF World Powerlifting Championships [1]
2nd1993145kg

Derek Boyer (born 14 June 1969) is a Fijian-Australian world champion powerlifter, former professional strongman competitor and actor.

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Strongman and powerlifting

Boyer has competed seven times in the World's Strongest Man contest, reaching the finals in 1997. [2] He is the reigning 12 time Australia's Strongest Man, winning from 2000–2011. [3] Boyer goes by the nickname "The Island Warrior". [2] He has won numerous powerlifting titles in Australia. [2]

Boyer currently holds the Guinness World Record for heaviest truck pulled, after he pulled a Kenworth K104 truck weighing 51,840 kg (114,287 lb; 51.84 metric tons) over a level 100 ft (30.48 m) course in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, on 6 March 2005. He captured his 11th straight Australia's Strongest Man title on 5 June 2010. [4]

Acting and television

Boyer has portrayed Bayman in DOA: Dead or Alive and promoted the steel products company Orcon, as Orcon's "Man of Steel", featuring Orcon's trackside promotional efforts at V8 Supercars events where Orcon has been a sponsor of race teams, Larkham Motor Sport, WPS Racing and Ford Performance Racing. He took on the role of 'Thunder' in the revived version of the Australian television sports entertainment series Gladiators in 2008. [5] [6] He specialized in strength events like Duel, Whiplash and Sumo Ball, where he used his weight advantage.

Boyer appeared on Channel Nine's The Footy Show (AFL) on 19 August 2010 and, with Australian rules footballer Shane Crawford, attempted the world record for the most bench presses (weight had to be over 105 kg) in a minute. With no practice at all, he achieved 116, with the record standing at 121. In a later attempt on the record on 23 September on The Footy Show, again with Crawford, Boyer managed to break the record by completing 126 bench presses despite Crawford weighing about 9 kilograms more than the minimum requirement and raising $10,000 for charity in the process. [7] [8] As of July 2023, Boyer still holds this record. [9]

Boyer was featured on the SBS program Housos as Bubbles, a prisoner who takes a shine to the "white meat" of Dazza Jones, and reprised his role in season 7 of cult Australian TV show Pizza in 2021. Boyer appeared on a 2012 episode of Big Brother Australia and in 2014, he was featured on 7mate's Bogan Hunters as a celebrity judge. [10]

Retirement and return to competition

On 14 September 2010, Boyer temporarily retired from strongman competition in a letter sent to Federation of Australian Strength Competitors (FASC) president Bill Lyndon. He stated that he will be focusing on powerlifting and sumo, [11] and he won the Heavyweight category in the 2010 Australian Sumo Championships. [12] However, he came out of retirement just six months later.

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  2. 1 2 3 "Biography" strongestman.billhenderson.org
  3. ↑ "Aussiepower official site". Archived from the original on 18 August 2010. Retrieved 30 September 2010.
  4. ↑ "Derek Boyer Wins 2010 Australia's Strongest Man". www.ironmind.com. Retrieved 31 January 2020.
  5. ↑ "Thunder". Gladiators. Retrieved 2 January 2023.
  6. ↑ "Gladiators' star Thunder says he would crush any of the contestants on Ninja Warrior". news.com.au. 7 July 2017. Retrieved 2 January 2023.
  7. ↑ "Most bench presses of a person in one minute" . Retrieved 2 January 2023.
  8. ↑ Shane Crawford's GUINNESS WORLD RECORD - Most Bench Pressed, 8 December 2010, retrieved 19 July 2023
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Preceded by Australia's Strongest Man
2000-2011		Succeeded by
Mike Vrljic
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