Strongman Super Series

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World Strongman Super Series
StrongmanSuperSeries09Logo.jpg
The official logo of World Strongman Super Series 2010
Founded2001;23 years ago (2001)
Ceased2010
Last
champion(s)
Flag of the United States.svg Brian Shaw
Tournament formatMulti-event competition

The Strongman Super Series, known from 2001 to 2004 as the IFSA World Strongman Super Series, from 2005 to 2008 as the World's Strongest Man Super Series, and reverting in 2009 to the World Strongman Super Series, is a sequence of grand prix events in the sport of strength athletics. It was introduced in 2001 in response to concerns that, unlike other individual sports such as golf or tennis, there was no recognized international "tour" in strength athletics. The Strongman Super Series ensures that there are a number of high-profile, professionally run contests during the year, with competitors' placings being used to decide the overall Super Series Champion.

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Typically, ten to twelve athletes take part in each GP, comprising the top six in the international rankings and at least four qualifiers or wildcard entries. The winner of each grand prix receives ten series points, the second placed, nine, and so on. The highest scoring competitor at the end of the series is named World Champion.

World Class Events ("WCE") ran the Super Series in co-operation with the International Federation of Strength Athletes ("IFSA") from 2001 to 2004 until IFSA cut ties with WCE and World's Strongest Man and began promoting their own grand prix events and world championships. In 2005, WCE signed a deal with Trans World International ("TWI"), the world's largest independent producer and distributor of sports programming, to have the exclusive rights worldwide to be the only qualifying tour to the MET-Rx World's Strongest Man event for 2005–2008. [1] The top four athletes from each Grand Prix competition receive an automatic invitation to WSM.

On April 27, 2009 Giants Live, an arena-based series of live strongman competitions, was named the Official World's Strongest Man Qualifying Tour for 2009–2011, thus taking over from the Strongman Super Series in this regard. The first 2009 qualifying event took place on May 17 at the Mohegan Sun Casino in Uncasville, Connecticut, and the second event being the Viking Power competition in Norway, and finishing off the 2009 season in Poland. [2]

Super Series World Champions

YearAthleteNationality
2001 Magnus Samuelsson Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden
2002 Hugo Girard Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada
2003/4 Mariusz Pudzianowski Flag of Poland.svg Poland
2004 Žydrūnas Savickas Flag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania
2005* Mariusz Pudzianowski Flag of Poland.svg Poland
2006* Mariusz Pudzianowski Flag of Poland.svg Poland
2007* Mariusz Pudzianowski Flag of Poland.svg Poland
2008* Derek Poundstone Flag of the United States.svg United States
2009 Brian Shaw Flag of the United States.svg United States
2010 Brian Shaw Flag of the United States.svg United States

*WSM Super Series

2001

The International Federation of Strength Athletes co-produced the Strongman Super Series events from 2001 to 2004 along with World Class Events (WCE)/Ulf Bengtsson.

The official logo of IFSA World Strongman Super Series from 2001 to 2004 IFSASSLogo.jpg
The official logo of IFSA World Strongman Super Series from 2001 to 2004
Name and LocationChampionRunner-Up3rd PlaceDate
Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands
Holland Grand Prix [3]
Flag of the Netherlands.svg Wout Zijlstra Flag of Sweden.svg Magnus Samuelsson Flag of Norway.svg Svend Karlsen 20 May 2001
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Prague, Czech Republic
Czech Grand Prix [4]
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Hugo Girard Flag of Norway.svg Svend Karlsen Flag of Sweden.svg Magnus Samuelsson 18 August 2001
Flag of Sweden.svg Stockholm, Sweden
Sweden Grand Prix [5]
Flag of Sweden.svg Magnus Samuelsson Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Hugo Girard Flag of Norway.svg Svend Karlsen 28 October 2001
Overall placings
Flag of Sweden.svg Magnus Samuelsson
(15 points)
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Hugo Girard
(13 points)
Flag of Norway.svg Svend Karlsen
(13 points)

2002

Name and LocationChampionRunner-Up3rd PlaceDate
Flag of Scotland.svg Aberdeen, Scotland
Flag of Norway.svg Svend Karlsen Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Hugo Girard Flag of Finland.svg Janne Virtanen 16 June 2002
Flag of Sweden.svg Stockholm, Sweden
Sweden Grand Prix [6] [7]
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Hugo Girard Flag of Norway.svg Svend Karlsen Flag of Lithuania.svg Žydrūnas Savickas 23 November 2002
Flag of the United States.svg Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Hugo Girard Flag of Lithuania.svg Žydrūnas Savickas Flag of Poland.svg Mariusz Pudzianowski 17 January 2003 [note 1]
Overall placings [8]
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Hugo Girard
(17 points)
Flag of Norway.svg Svend Karlsen
(13 points)
Flag of Lithuania.svg Žydrūnas Savickas
9 points)
  1. Although held in 2003 the 2002 Hawaii Grand Prix was the final event of the 2002 Strongman Super Series and was not a part of, and had no effect on, the 2003 series. [note 2]
  2. Strossen, Randall J. (19 January 2003). "Hugo Girard: World Record in Farmer's Walk". IronMind. Archived from the original on 26 December 2016. Retrieved 7 September 2023.

2003

Name and LocationChampionRunner-Up3rd PlaceDate
Flag of the United States.svg Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
Flag of Poland.svg Mariusz Pudzianowski Flag of Latvia.svg Raimonds Bergmanis Flag of Lithuania.svg Žydrūnas Savickas 18 January 2003
Flag of the Netherlands.svg Silvolde, Netherlands
Holland Grand Prix [10]
Flag of Poland.svg Mariusz Pudzianowski Flag of Lithuania.svg Žydrūnas Savickas Flag of the Netherlands.svg Jarno Hams 14 June 2003
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg North Bay, Canada
Canada Grand Prix [11]
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Hugo Girard Flag of Poland.svg Mariusz Pudzianowski Flag of Norway.svg Svend Karlsen 1 August 2003
Flag of Finland.svg Imatra, Finland
Finland Grand Prix [12]
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Hugo Girard Flag of Poland.svg Mariusz Pudzianowski Flag of Latvia.svg Raimonds Bergmanis 16 August 2003
Flag of the United States.svg Columbus, Ohio, United States
Flag of Lithuania.svg Žydrūnas Savickas Flag of Norway.svg Svend Karlsen Flag of Latvia.svg Raimonds Bergmanis 5-6 March 2004 [note 1]
Overall placings
Flag of Poland.svg Mariusz Pudzianowski Flag of Lithuania.svg Žydrūnas Savickas Flag of Latvia.svg Raimonds Bergmanis
  1. Although held in 2004 the 2004 Arnold's Strongest Man was the final event of the 2003 Strongman Super Series and was not a part of, and had no effect on, the 2004 series.

2004

Name and LocationChampionRunner-Up3rd PlaceDate
Flag of Russia.svg Moscow, Russia
Moscow Grand Prix [14]
Flag of Poland.svg Mariusz Pudzianowski Flag of Lithuania.svg Žydrūnas Savickas Flag of Ukraine.svg Vasyl Virastyuk 11 July 2004
Flag of Sweden.svg Gothenburg, Sweden
Sweden Grand Prix [15]
Flag of Sweden.svg Magnus Samuelsson Flag of Lithuania.svg Žydrūnas Savickas Flag of Norway.svg Svend Karlsen 5 December 2004
Overall placings
Flag of Lithuania.svg Žydrūnas Savickas Flag of Ukraine.svg Vasyl Virastyuk Flag of Poland.svg Mariusz Pudzianowski/
Flag of Sweden.svg Magnus Samuelsson

2005

Beginning in 2005, WSM/WCE cut all ties with IFSA, who had begun promoting their own separate grand prix events and world championships. The Strongman Super Series then became known as the World's Strongest Man Super Series and was the official qualifying tour for World's Strongest Man from 2005 to 2008.

The official logo of World's Strongest Man Super Series from 2005 to 2008 WSMSSLogo.jpg
The official logo of World's Strongest Man Super Series from 2005 to 2008
Name and LocationChampionRunner-Up3rd PlaceDate
Flag of the United States.svg Los Angeles, California, United States
Met-Rx Grand Prix [16]
Flag of Poland.svg Mariusz Pudzianowski Flag of the United States.svg Jesse Marunde Flag of Finland.svg Janne Virtanen 18 June 2005
Flag of Poland.svg Malbork, Poland
Nautilus Grand Prix [17]
Flag of Poland.svg Mariusz Pudzianowski Flag of Poland.svg Slawomir Toczek Flag of the United States.svg Jesse Marunde 16 July 2005
Flag of Sweden.svg Varberg, Sweden
Vulkan Grand Prix [18]
Flag of Poland.svg Mariusz Pudzianowski Flag of Finland.svg Janne Virtanen Flag of the United States.svg Jesse Marunde 30 July 2005
Flag of the United States.svg Uncansville, Connecticut, United States
Mohegan Sun Grand Prix [19]
Flag of Poland.svg Mariusz Pudzianowski Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Jessen Paulin Flag of the United States.svg Don Pope 10 August 2005
Overall placings
Flag of Poland.svg Mariusz Pudzianowski Flag of the United States.svg Jesse Marunde Flag of Finland.svg Janne Virtanen

2006

Name and LocationChampionRunner-Up3rd PlaceDate
Flag of the United States.svg Uncansville, Connecticut, United States
Mohegan Sun Grand Prix [20]
Flag of Poland.svg Mariusz Pudzianowski Flag of the United States.svg Jesse Marunde Flag of the United States.svg Josh Thigpen1 June 2006
Flag of Russia.svg Moscow, Russia
Moscow Grand Prix [21]
Flag of Poland.svg Mariusz Pudzianowski Flag of Russia.svg Elbrus Nigmatullin Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Jessen Paulin 2 July 2006
Flag of Poland.svg Milicz, Poland
Poland Grand Prix [22]
Flag of Poland.svg Mariusz Pudzianowski Flag of Poland.svg Jarek Dymek Flag of Poland.svg Sebastian Wenta 12 August 2006
Overall placings
Flag of Poland.svg Mariusz Pudzianowski

2007

Name and LocationChampionRunner-Up3rd PlaceDate
Flag of the United States.svg Uncansville, Connecticut, United States
Mohegan Sun Grand Prix [23]
Flag of Poland.svg Mariusz Pudzianowski Flag of the United States.svg Kevin Nee Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Mark Felix 22 April 2007
Flag of the United States.svg Los Angeles, California, United States
Venice Beach Grand Prix [24]
Flag of the United States.svg Dave Ostlund Flag of Poland.svg Mariusz Pudzianowski Flag of the United States.svg Jesse Marunde 16 June 2007
Flag of Norway.svg Gol, Norway
Viking Power Challenge [25]
Flag of Poland.svg Mariusz Pudzianowski Flag of Poland.svg Jarek Dymek Flag of Sweden.svg Magnus Samuelsson 7 July 2007
Overall placings
Flag of Poland.svg Mariusz Pudzianowski

2008

Name and LocationChampionRunner-Up3rd PlaceDate
Flag of the United States.svg Uncansville, Connecticut, United States
Mohegan Sun Grand Prix [26]
Flag of the United States.svg Derek Poundstone Flag of Poland.svg Mariusz Pudzianowski Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Terry Hollands 19 January 2008
Flag of the United States.svg New York City, New York, United States
Madison Square Garden Grand Prix [27]
Flag of the United States.svg Travis Ortmayer Flag of the United States.svg Derek Poundstone Flag of the United States.svg Dave Ostlund 21 June 2008
Flag of Norway.svg Gol, Norway
Viking Power Challenge [28]
Flag of Norway.svg Arild Haugen Flag of Poland.svg Sebastian Wenta Flag of Norway.svg Richard Skog 5 July 2008
Flag of Sweden.svg Lysekil, Sweden
Sweden Grand Prix [29]
Flag of Sweden.svg Magnus Samuelsson Flag of Estonia.svg Tarmo Mitt Flag of Norway.svg Richard Skog 16 August 2008
Overall placings
Flag of the United States.svg Derek Poundstone

2009

Giants Live replaced the World's Strongest Man Super Series beginning in 2009 as the official qualifying tour for the World's Strongest Man. However, Strongman Super Series continued to hold events under the new title of World Strongman Super Series in 2009 & 2010. [30]

Name and LocationChampionRunner-Up3rd PlaceDate
Flag of Romania.svg Bucharest, Romania
Romania Grand Prix [31]
Flag of the United States.svg Marshall White Flag of the United States.svg Nick Best Flag of Sweden.svg Johannes Arsjo 4 July 2009
Flag of the United States.svg Los Angeles, California, United States
Venice Beach Grand Prix [32]
Flag of the United States.svg Brian Shaw Flag of Bulgaria.svg Stoyan Todorchev Flag of the United States.svg Jason Bergmann 14 November 2009
Flag of Sweden.svg Gothenburg, Sweden
Sweden Grand Prix [33]
Flag of the United States.svg Brian Shaw Flag of Bulgaria.svg Stoyan Todorchev Flag of the United States.svg Jason Bergmann 5 December 2009
Overall placings [33]
Flag of the United States.svg Brian Shaw (27 points) Flag of Bulgaria.svg Stoyan Todorchev (24 points) Flag of the United States.svg Nick Best (21 points)

2010

Name and LocationChampionRunner-Up3rd PlaceDate
Flag of the United States.svg Uncansville, Connecticut, United States
Mohegan Sun Grand Prix [34]
Flag of the United States.svg Derek Poundstone Flag of the United States.svg Brian Shaw Flag of Bulgaria.svg Stoyan Todorchev 25 April 2010
Flag of Norway.svg Gol, Norway
Viking Power Challenge [35]
Flag of the United States.svg Brian Shaw Flag of Sweden.svg Johannes Arsjo Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Laurence Shahlaei 26 June 2010
Flag of Sweden.svg Lysekil, Sweden
Sweden Grand Prix [36]
Flag of the United States.svg Brian Shaw Flag of the United States.svg Nick Best Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Laurence Shahlaei 17 December 2010
Overall placings [36]
Flag of the United States.svg Brian Shaw
(33 points)
Flag of the United States.svg Dave Ostlund
(19.5 points)
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Laurence Shahlaei
(16 points)

See also

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