| Mark Philippi | |
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| Born | Mark Philippi March 21, 1963 Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin[1] USA |
| Residence | Las Vegas, Nevada[2] |
| Occupation | Strongman |
| Height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) |
| Weight | 300 pounds (140 kg) |
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| Strongman | |||
| Competitor for United States | |||
| World's Strongest Man | |||
| 7th | 1997 World's Strongest Man | ||
| 8th | 1998 World's Strongest Man | ||
| Qualified | 1999 World's Strongest Man | ||
| Qualified | 2000 World's Strongest Man | ||
| Qualified | 2001 World's Strongest Man | ||
| Qualified | 2003 World's Strongest Man | ||
| Arnold Strongman Classic | |||
| 4th | 2002 Arnold Strongman Classic | ||
| 4th | 2004 Arnold Strongman Classic | ||
| 4th | 2005 Arnold Strongman Classic | ||
| World Muscle Power Championships | |||
| 2nd | 1997 | ||
| 3rd | 1998 | ||
| 2nd | 1999 | ||
| World Strongman Challenge | |||
| 2nd | 1998 | ||
| Beauty and the Beast | |||
| 1st | 1998 | ||
| 4th | 2000 | ||
| America's Strongest Man | |||
| 1st | 1997 | ||
| 3rd | 2001 | ||
| 8th | 2002 | ||
| 3rd | 2003 | ||
| All-American Strongman Challenge | |||
| 4th | 2006 | ||
Mark Philippi (born 21 March 1963) – is a former leading strongman competitor, multiple entrant to the World's Strongest Man competition, and former holder of the America's Strongest Man title.[1]
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As a young man, Mark saw the early strongman competitions featuring his soon-to-be hero, Bill Kazmaier. He has stated that having seen Kazmaier on television he said to himself "I want to be like Bill." A career in athletic events focused on strength including powerlifting and strength athletics followed.
His record at the highest international level place him in the first rank of strength athletes. After winning the title of America's Strongest Man in 1997, he went on to represent his country in the 1997 World's Strongest Man finals, the first of seven appearances. He made the final on four occasions, but his greatest success came in the World Muscle Power Championships where he placed in the top three on three consecutive occasions form 1997 to 1999. His progress to become the best in the field was hindered by two major injuries that required extensive rehabilitation. In 1998, Philippi was injured at the World’s Strongest Man during a car flipping event where he ruptured his patella tendon and also partially tore his biceps tendon when the car rolled back on him. Surgery and a long rehabilitation followed but when he returned to strongman contests in 2000 he ruptured a patella tendon again. Philippi returned to competition in 2001 and placed third in the America’s Strongest Man contest in which he won both the squat and the car-lift events.[2]
As well as a successful career as a strength athlete, Mark was also a highly rated international powerlifter. He won the National & World Drug Free Power Lifting championship in 1993 and 1996. He was also an offensive lineman and three-year starter at Montana Tech from 1983 to 1987.
Mark opened the Philippi Sports Institute[3][4] Mark has written for, and been featured in, Men’s Health, Men’s Fitness, Muscle and Fitness, Sports Illustrated, Las Vegas Life, Ironmind and Powerlifting USA.[5] and written or appeared in articles in Sports Illustrated, Men’s Health, Men’s Fitness and the New York Daily News. In addition he lectures on Coaching, Motivation, Strength Training, and Conditioning. For a number of years he has also been an instructor and designer of the Academic Strength Curriculum at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas.
Mark s married to Tracey with whom he has four children (Marc, born 1993, McKayla born 1998, Zach born 2001 and a fourth child born 2004).