Strongman Champions League

Strongman Champions League
2014
The official logo of the Strongman Champions League
Tournament information
Location	Various international locations
Month played	multiple grand prix events held throughout the year
Established	2008
Format	Multi-event competition
Purse	varies
Current champion
Martin Wildauer[1]

The Strongman Champions League is a strongman competition circuit, with several grand prix events throughout the year and the Strongman Champions League overall champion title going to the overall winner at the end of the season. The competitors include some of the top athletes in the sport, including Žydrūnas Savickas, Krzysztof Radzikowski, Travis Ortmayer, Nick Best, Mikhail Koklyaev, Ervin Katona, Andrus Murumets, Laurence Shahlaei, Vytautas Lalas and Terry Hollands. Initially in close partnership with IFSA, it quickly asserted its independence and has acted as a unifying force in the world of strength athletics, bringing together athletes from IFSA with those affiliated to the World's Strongest Man circuit, and having close cooperation with other major events such as Fortissimus. In 2012, SCL began co-promoting the new Arnold Strongman Classic-Europe contest which will become part of the annual SCL season of events.

History

The Strongman Champions League was developed by Ilkka Kinnunen and Marcel Mostert, longtime strongman promoters, with major contests to their credit worldwide, and was launched in 2008. Kinnunen & Mostert described SCL as "a new episode in strongman".^[2]

"A complete series of 10–12 competitions, that will take place all over the world, but most of the competitions will be held in Europe. The very best champions, referees and their organizers will be the guarantee of a great new, fresh excitement in Strongman sport. The competition venues are the best which each country can offer and it will include the country's own traditional elements."^[2] As well as citing that all points will be accumulated for a Champions League Winner at the end of the year, the organisers also explicitly stated that "Rules will be done officially as and that "The top 3 will be directly placed in the World Championships".^[2] Mostert also said "All together we think that this is a perfect platform of competitions that will lead to another great World Championship.".^[2]

Thus, IFSA were inextricably linked at the inception of the league. IFSA, however, were in reportedly dire financial straits towards the end of that year. By December, Mostert distanced the league from the ailing governing body and explicitly said that the Strongman Champions League had nothing to do with IFSA. He told IronMind "We have our own logo, we have our own brand, we do our own competitions."^[3] Its own website was launched shortly afterwards.

The league organisers had originally reported that Champions League competitions "will be televised and spread all over the world and they released a list of venues that had been organised in advance. In the harsh economic climate of 2008, the league was not immune to the effects, and the league did have to cancel some venues, but unlike with the IFSA, the vast majority of the competitions still took place. In 2008, the SCL had 45 top strength athletes competing, representing more than 20 countries.^[4]

Fortissimus Cooperation

In 2008 Paul Ohl stated that the Strongman Champions League was one of three organisations that had made an agreement with Fortissimus in order to unite the world strength community, the others being the American Strongman Corporation, and the Aussiepower organization. Within the agreement, Fortissimus, the competition that confers the title of "Strongest Man on the Planet", guaranteed that the winner of the America's Strongest Man title would be granted a slot in Fortissimus from 2009, as would the winner of the Australia's Strongest Man title. The agreement with the Strongman Champions League went further, stating that the top three athletes would have guaranteed places and in return the top Canadian athletes would have guaranteed selected participation in the Champions League.^[5] This later went further, guaranteeing the SCL its top five athletes would have places.^[4] The agreement was reemphasised in a joint statement from Marcel Mostert and Paul Ohl in early 2009.^[4]

2009 and links with WSM

The 2009 programme was planned with ten major contests on schedule. In addition, feeder contests were introduced, one happening in Spain in December 2008 and a further event in Germany called the FIBO Strongman Classic in April 2009. The best two athletes from this FIBO classic 2009 edition were guaranteed into the Champions League, and it was postulated that this German event would be promoted to full SCL status in 2010.

The Strongman Champions League importantly made further progress in acting as a fundamental part of a unifying movement for world strength athletics by making plans to help get its athletes to the 2009 World's Strongest Man contest. Mostert stated that "The top 5 SCL athletes will have places in the Giants Live tour for qualifying at World's Strongest Man (WSM) 2009". In addition, he also stated that wild cards for the WSM will include SCL athletes. He went on to say that "Finally we made it all possible again that all the athletes have chances to qualify for the WSM, which means in my opinion the WSM will have the strongest field ever in her history!". He went on to thank TWI/IMG and Giants Live for their part in making these possibilities. This was groundbreaking because for a number of years prior to this, the athletes under the IFSA had been banned by the federation from entering WSM (since the IFSA fell out of favour with TWI). Likewise, the athletes invited to participate in WSM were not invited to participate in IFSA events. Some competitions bridged the divide, such as the Arnold Strongman Classic and more recently Fortissimus, but neither had the history or gravitas, or indeed popular appeal of the iconic World's Strongest Man. The IFSA athletes, with the demise of the IFSA finances, almost all competed in SCL from 2008. This deal, along with the Fortissimus deal before it, united strongman in a way it had not been since 2004.

The 2009 season began properly on 9 May, with the Strongman Champions League Serbia. Finland followed on 16 May,^[6] with Slovakia and the Netherlands in June.

Results

List of SCL Season Champions

Year	Athlete	Nationality
2008	Zydrunas Savickas	Lithuania
2009	Andrus Murumets	Estonia
2010	Terry Hollands	United Kingdom
2011	Ervin Katona	Serbia
2012	Zydrunas Savickas	Lithuania[1]
2013	Krzysztof Radzikowski	Poland
2014	Martin Wildauer	Austria

2008

Name and Location	Champion	Runner-Up	3rd Place	Date[7]
Latvia	Žydrūnas Savickas	Travis Ortmayer	Agris Kazelniks	March 22, 2008
Serbia	Žydrūnas Savickas	Ervin Katona	Andrus Murumets	May 10, 2008
Netherlands	Žydrūnas Savickas	Andrus Murumets	Travis Ortmayer	June 1, 2008
Bulgaria	Andrus Murumets	Žydrūnas Savickas	Ervin Katona	June 21, 2008
Lithuania	Žydrūnas Savickas	Vidas Blekaitis	Saulius Brusokas	August 2, 2008
Romania	Žydrūnas Savickas	Ervin Katona	Oleksandr Lashyn	August 16, 2008
Finland	Mikhail Koklyaev	Žydrūnas Savickas	Ervin Katona	August 29, 2008
Overall placings[8]	Žydrūnas Savickas 130 points	Ervin Katona 72 points	Agris Kazelniks 60 points

2009

Name and Location	Champion	Runner-Up	3rd Place	Date[7]
Serbia	Mikhail Koklyaev	Andrus Murumets	Travis Ortmayer	May 9, 2009[9]
Finland	Andrus Murumets	Vidas Blekaitis	Martin Wildauer	May 16–17, 2009[10]
Slovakia	Andrus Murumets	Terry Hollands	Alexander Klyushev	June 7, 2009[11]
Netherlands	Mikhail Koklyaev	Agris Kazelniks	Richard van der Linden	June 14, 2009[12]
Spain	Ervin Katona	Andrus Murumets	Jimmy Laureys	October 10, 2009[13][14]
England	Žydrūnas Savickas	Mark Felix	Andrus Murumets	October 18, 2009[15]
Hungary	Žydrūnas Savickas	Andrus Murumets	Ervin Katona	October 29, 2009[14][16]
Kiev, Ukraine "SCL 2009 Finals"	Žydrūnas Savickas	Travis Ortmayer	Agris Kazelniks	November 14, 2009[16][17]
Overall placings[18]	Andrus Murumets 105 points	Agris Kazelniks 68 points	Žydrūnas Savickas 60 points

2009 Qualifiers

The Strongman Champions League introduced qualifying competitions for 2009. From these competitions, the top two were guaranteed places in the SCL. The first qualifier was run in Los Barrios, Spain. The second was the FIBO Classic in Germany.

Name and Location	Champion	Runner-Up	3rd Place	Date
Spain Spanish International Challenge	Jarno Hams	Ervin Katona	Steve MacDonald	December 2008[19]
Germany "FIBO"	Travis Ortmayer	Martin Wildauer	Igor Werner	April 2009[20]

2010

Name and Location	Champion	Runner-Up	3rd Place	Date
Kuusamo, Lapland Finland "SCL Iceman Challenge"	Zydrunas Savickas	Terry Hollands	Konstiantyn Ilin	March 21, 2010[21]
Germany "FIBO"	Mikhail Koklyaev	Terry Hollands	Travis Ortmayer	April 24, 2010[21]
Ideapark, Finland	Mikhail Koklyaev	Terry Hollands	Travis Ortmayer	May 16, 2010[22]
Limerick, Ireland	Zydrunas Savickas/ Terry Hollands tie		Agris Kazelniks	June 6, 2010[23]
Sofia, Bulgaria	Ervin Katona	Johannes Arsjo	Terry Hollands	June 13, 2010[24]
Netherlands	Travis Ortmayer	Mikhail Koklyaev	Ervin Katona	June 20, 2010[25]
Serbia	Ervin Katona	Agris Kazelniks	Gabor Fargacs	August 29, 2010[26]
Slovakia	Ervin Katona	Terry Hollands	Konstiantyn Ilin	October 9, 2010[27]
Kiev, Ukraine "SCL 2010 Finals"	Sergey Romanchuk	Agris Kazelniks	Mikhail Koklyaev	December 18, 2010[28]
Overall placings[28]	Terry Hollands 132 points	Ervin Katona 106 points	Mikhail Koklyaev 98 points

2011

Name and Location	Champion	Runner-Up	3rd Place	Date
Kuusamo, Lapland Finland "SCL Iceman Challenge II"	Zydrunas Savickas	Johannes Arsjo	Ervin Katona	March 19, 2011[29]
Germany "FIBO"	Zydrunas Savickas	Terry Hollands	Martin Wildauer	April 16, 2011[30]
Serbia	Ervin Katona	Johannes Arsjo	Jimmy Laureys	May 21, 2011[31]
South Africa	Laurence Shahlaei	Etienne Smit	Warrick Brant	June 8, 2011[32]
Tampere, Finland	Vytautas Lalas	Laurence Shahlaei	Ervin Katona	June 12, 2011[33]
Netherlands	Laurence Shahlaei	Ervin Katona	Jimmy Laureys	June 18, 2011[34]
Bulgaria	Ervin Katona	Vytautas Lalas	Rob Frampton	June 25, 2011[35]
Canary Islands	Ervin Katona	Tomi Lotta	Jarno Hams	September 3, 2011[36]
Slovakia	Konstiantyn Ilin	Branislav Golier	Tomi Lotta	September 10, 2011[37]
Canada "SCL 2011 Semi-Finals"	Zydrunas Savickas	Jean-Francois Caron	Laurence Shahlaei	Sept. 30-Oct. 2, 2011[38]
Latvia	Zydrunas Savickas	Jean-Francois Caron	Agris Kazelniks	Nov. 18-19, 2011[39]
Sarajevo, Bosnia "SCL 2011 Finals"[40]	Zydrunas Savickas	Jean-Francois Caron	Ervin Katona	Feb. 7, 2012
Overall placings[40]	Ervin Katona 201 points	Zydrunas Savickas 176 points	Laurence Shahlaei 106 points

2012

Name and Location	Champion	Runner-Up	3rd Place	Date
Kuusamo, Lapland Finland "SCL Iceman Challenge III"	Zydrunas Savickas	Laurence Shahlaei	Janusz Kulaga	March 9, 10 2012[41]
Germany "FIBO"	Zydrunas Savickas	Laurence Shahlaei	Ervin Katona	April 22, 2012[42]
Novi Sad, Serbia	Ervin Katona	Terry Hollands	Lauri Nami	May 5, 2012[43]
Zevenaar, Netherlands	Zydrunas Savickas	Laurence Shahlaei	Jarno Hams	June 30, 2012[44]
Jiangsu, China "SCL World Shanghai Cup"	Zydrunas Savickas	Laurence Shahlaei	Ervin Katona	July 4–8, 2012[45]
Oporto, Portugal	Zydrunas Savickas	Ervin Katona	Terry Hollands	July 21, 2012[46]
PowerPark Alaharma, Finland	Zydrunas Savickas	Mikhail Koklyaev	Terry Hollands	Aug. 11, 2012[47]
Trzebnica, Poland	Zydrunas Savickas/ Mikhail Koklyaev tie		Krzysztof Radzikowski	Aug. 18, 2012[48]
Vladivostok, Russia	Mikhail Koklyaev	Johannes Arsjo	Marius Lalas	Aug. 25, 2012[49]
Gibraltar	Zydrunas Savickas	Lauri Nami	Terry Hollands	Sept. 2, 2012[50]
Bansko, Bulgaria	Rafal Kobylarz	Saulius Brusokas	Paul Pirjol	Sept. 22, 2012[51]
Siemens Arena Vilnius, Lithuania "SCL Savickas Classic" "SCL 2012 Semi-Finals"	Zydrunas Savickas	Vidas Blekaitis	Vytautas Lalas	Oct. 6, 2012[52]
Madrid, Spain "Arnold Strongman Classic-Europe"	Zydrunas Savickas	Krzysztof Radzikowski	Vytautas Lalas	Oct. 13 & 14, 2012[53]
Fort-de-France, Martinique "SCL 2012 Finals"	Žydrūnas Savickas	Mikhail Koklyaev	Krzysztof Radzikowski	Nov. 16-18 2012[1][54]
Overall placings[1][55]	Žydrūnas Savickas 275 points	Ervin Katona 130 points	Mikhail Koklyaev 114 points

2013

Name and Location	Champion	Runner-Up	3rd Place	Date
Kuusamo, Lapland Finland "SCL Iceman Challenge IV"	Krzysztof Radzikowski	Tomi Lotta	Laurence Shahlaei	March 16, 2013[56]
Germany "FIBO"	Vytautas Lalas	Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson	Krzysztof Radzikowski	April 13, 2013[57]
Novi Sad, Serbia	Ervin Katona	Martin Wildauer	Dainis Zageris	May 18, 2013[58]
Olaine, Latvia	Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson	Dainis Zageris	Meelis Peil	May 26, 2013[59]
Pilzen, Czech Republic	Krzysztof Radzikowski	Vytautas Lalas	Lauri Nami	June 9, 2013[60]
Wunderland Kalkar, Germany	Zydrunas Savickas	Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson	Krzysztof Radzikowski	June 22, 2013[61]
Jiangsu, China "SCL World Shanghai Cup"	Zydrunas Savickas	Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson	Jean-Francois Caron	July 9–13, 2013[62]
Tavira, Portugal	Krzysztof Radzikowski	Bjorn Andre Solvang	Vytautas Lalas	July 27, 2013[63]
Finland "SCL Truck Pull World Championships"	Ervin Katona	Antti Mourujarvi	Meelis Peil	Aug. 10, 2013[64]
Budapest, Hungary	Ervin Katona	Krzysztof Radzikowski	Meelis Peil	Aug. 31, 2013[65]
Kosice, Slovakia	Lauri Nami	Krzysztof Radzikowski	Martin Wildauer	Sept. 7, 2013[66]
Vladivostok, Russia	Zydrunas Savickas	Mike Burke	Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson	Sept. 14, 2013[67]
Kartuzy, Poland	Krzysztof Radzikowski	Zydrunas Savickas	Dainis Zageris	Sept. 21, 2013[68]
Gibraltar	Zydrunas Savickas	Krzysztof Radzikowski	Dainis Zageris	Sept. 28, 2013[69]
Tallinn, Estonia	Meelis Peil	Krzysztof Radzikowski	Lauri Nami	Oct. 5, 2013[70]
Siemens Arena Vilnius, Lithuania "SCL Savickas Classic"	Zydrunas Savickas	Vidas Blekaitis	Krzysztof Radzikowski	Oct. 20, 2013[71]
Sao Paolo, Brazil "SCL 2013 Semi-Finals"	Zydrunas Savickas	Krzysztof Radzikowski	Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson	Nov. 8, 2013[72]
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia "SCL 2013 Finals"	Zydrunas Savickas	Mike Burke	Krzysztof Radzikowski	Nov. 23, 2013[72]
Overall placings	Krzysztof Radzikowski	Zydrunas Savickas	Ervin Katona

2014

Name and Location	Champion	Runner-Up	3rd Place	Date
Martinique, Martinique "SCL MARTINIQUE"	Ervin Katona	Gerald Gschiel	Lauri Nami	March 15,16 2014[73]
Germany "SCL GERMANY" FIBO	Zydrunas Savickas	Martin Wildauer	Ervin Katona	April 5, 2014[74]
Serbia,	Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson	Ervin Katona	Martin Wildauer	May 10, 2014[75]
, FINLAND	Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson	Marius Lalas	Rauno Heinla	June 13, 2014[76]
, NETHERLANDS	Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson	Grzegorz Szymanski	Alex Moonen	June 21, 2014[77]
Olaine, Latvia "SCL LATVIA	Rafal Kobylarz	Vidas Blekaitis	Martin Wildauer	June 29, 2014[78]
, Portugal	Martin Wildauer	Dainis Zageris	Lauri Nami	July 04, 2014[79]
Croatia "SCL CROATIA"	Ervin Katona	Martin Wildauer	Krzysztof Radzikowski	July. 19, 2014[80]
, POLAND	Krzysztof Radzikowski	Martin Wildauer	Vidas Blekaitis	Aug. 03, 2014[81]
, HUNGARY	Krzysztof Radzikowski	Ervin Katona	Matjaz Belsak	Aug.30 , 2014[82]
, ZAMBIA	Krzysztof Radzikowski	Ervin Katona	Dainis Zageris	Sept.13 , 2014[83]
, ROMANIA	Krzysztof Radzikowski	Ervin Katona	Martin Wildauer	Sept.21 , 2014[83]
, Lithuania	Rauno Heinla	Vidas Blekaitis	Matjaz Belsak	Oct. 5, 2014[83]
, Estonia	Rauno Heinla	Martin Wildauer	Krzysztof Radzikowski	Oct.18 , 2014[83]
, Malaysia "SCL 2014 Finals"	Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson	Eddy Hall	Krzysztof Radzikowski	Nov.14,15 2014[72]
Overall placings	Martin Wildauer	Krzysztof Radzikowski	Ervin Katona

SCL North American Championships

In 2012, SCL announced the first ever SCL North American Championships to be held in Warwick Ontario, Canada from July 5–8, 2012.^[84] The contest took place over 4 days and consisted of 10 events, with athletes from USA and Canada, with 5 athletes from each country.^[84] The event was organized by SCL in association with the Festival Hommes Forts-Warwick along with co-organizer Jean Fréchette.^[84] The event also featured an amateur, semi-pro and a strongwoman competition.^[84]

2012

Dates: July 5–8, 2012^[85] Warwick, Quebec, Canada

Position	Name	Country	Points
1	Louis-Philippe Jean		81
2	Christian Savoie		76
3	Nick Best		73
4	Dave Ostlund		57.5
5	Adam Scherr		57.5
6	Jacki Ouellet		54
7	Paul Vaillancourt		42.5
8	Steve Schmidt		42
9	Simon Boudreau		37.5
10	Joel Dircks		27

2013

Dates: July 5–7, 2013^[86] Warwick, Quebec, Canada

Position	Name	Country	Points
1	Mike Burke		89
2	Louis-Phillipe Jean		87
3	Christian Savoie		73
4	Jason Bergmann		67
5	Karl Gillingham		54
6	Luke Skaarup		53
7	Paul Vaillancourt		44
8	Steve Schmidt		41
9	Maxime Boudreault		35
10	Joel Dircks		31
11	Scott Cummine		28
12	Dale Schumaker		17

2014

Dates: July 4–6, 2014^[87] Warwick, Quebec, Canada

Position	Name	Country	Points
1	Brian Shaw		85.5
2	Jean-Francois Caron		74
3	Jason Bergmann		61
4	Luke Skaarup		54.5
5	Josh Thigpen		54
6	Ben Ruckstuhl		52
7	Nick Best		51
8	Paul Vaillancourt		45.5
9	Dimitar Savatinov		44.5
10	Maxime Boudreault		43
11	Dale Schumaker		20
12	Christian Savoie		18* injnured (tore both patella's on 2nd event)

105kg Strongman World Championships

The 105 kg Strongman World Championships was created by Ilkka Kinnunen and Marcel Mostert, the founders of the Strongman Champions League in 2004. The contest includes only athletes weighing 105 kg (231 lbs.) and under, and SCL has stated that it intends to hold the 105 kg Strongman World Championships every 2 years.^[88]

2007

In 2007 the World Championships were held in China, with 17 athletes from 16 different countries participated in the event. The competitions consisted of 10 events over the course of 1 week.^[88] Dates: December 2007 China

Position	Name	Country	Points
1	Janne Hartikainen		143.5
2	Alvidas Brazdzius		133.5
3	Maris Rosenthals		129
4	Sergi Konyushok		124.5
5	Zdravko Zanev		123
6	Gert Gorsanov		108
7	Jason Scheepers		99.5
8	Danny Andersson		98.5
9	Piotr Piechowiak		93
10	Kevin Nowack		93
11	Fouad Hsaini		85.5
12	Janos Kezler		74.5
13	Gerhard Trawöger		66.5
14	Patrick Baboumian		64
15	Robert Scott		40.5
16	Min Hyogun		26,5
17	Papp Gyula		22

2009

In 2009 and 2010 the contest was held in Kiev, Ukraine during the same weekend as the SCL Finals, with co-organizers Vladimir & Olena Kiba from the Ukrainian Federation of Strength Athletes (UFSA).^[88][89] Dates: November 14, 2009 Kiev, Ukraine

Position	Name	Country	Points
1	Vitaliy Gerasimov		70
2	Mikhailo Melnikov		68
3	Marius Lalas		64
4	Gert Gorshanov		63
5	Aleksander Mantserov		58
6	Justin Blake		37
7	Alexey Vishnitsky		34.5
8	Maris Blumfelds		34
9	Patrick Baboumian		31
10	Paul Wood		25.5
11	Josef Masaryk		17
12	Rami Koski		9

2010

Dates: December 18, 2010^[90] Kiev, Ukraine

Position	Name	Country	Points
1	Vitaliy Gerasimov		55
2	Aleksander Mantserov		54
3	Topi Fryfeld		35.5
4	Oleksander Krivchenkov		34.5
5	Alexey Vishnitsky		31.5
6	Rori Scheepers		31
7	Tomas Haijnal		25.5
8	Harri Peltomaa		25
9	Maris Blumfeld		9
10	Ladislav Zsemlye		7

2013

Dates: July 28, 2013^[91] Kiev, Ukraine

Position	Name	Country	Points
1	Ben Kelsey		60
2	Oleksandre Kryvchenkov		56.5
3	Marcin Sedwicki		53.5
4	Mykhailo Hodyakov		39.0
5	Dalius Ziminskas		38.0
6	Sean Demarinis		37.0
7	Vidar Daae Vikoyr		34.5
8	Johnny Wasisko		33.5

World Log Lift Championships

In its inaugural year, the Strongman Champions League introduced the World Log Lift Championships. The event had been a staple of strongman competitions since the early 1980s. Beginning with the 1980 World's Strongest Man contest, Bill Kazmaier hoisted 157 kg to win the event and set a world record. Over eight years Kazmaier increased the record to 170 kg. Jamie Reeves, winner of the 1989 World's Strongest Man contest, managed 177 kg in 1989, and 180 kg at the 1992 World Mighty Man contest in Johannesburg, South Africa.

It was ten years before 2001 World's Strongest Man winner Svend Karlsen set a new record of 185 kg at the Strongman Super Series event in Sweden. In 2003, Hugo Girard set a new record at the Strongman Super Series event in Canada with 186 kg. In 2004, Zydrunas Savickas set a new record of 188 kg, and Raimunds Bergmanis brought the record up to 190 kg at the Strongman Super Series event in Moscow.

Zydrunas Savickas began his long reign over the log lift world record starting in 2005, bringing it up to 200 kg in Hungary, and then again at the 2005 IFSA European Championships in Riga, Latvia with 202.5 kg. Savickas set another new record in 2006, bringing it up to 205 kg.

In 2008 Savickas broke the record twice more, with marks of 207.5 kg and 210 kg. Savickas set yet another world record of 212.5 kg at the 2009 Log Lift World Championships.

Zydrunas set another world record of 215 kg, set at the 2011 SCL Finals in Sarajevo, Bosnia on Feb. 7, 2012, and another world record of 216 kg by Savickas and was set at the 2012 Europe's Strongest Man contest in Leeds, England on June 23, 2012.^[92] Savickas set yet another world record of 217.5 kg at the SCL Holland event in Zevenaar, the Netherlands on June 30, 2012.^[44]

Savickas' final world record in 2012 of 220 kg was set during the finals of the 2012 World's Strongest Man contest which he eventually won, marking his third WSM title.^[93] This marked Savickas' tenth consecutive log lift world record.

In 2013, Savickas set another world record at the 2013 Europe's Strongest Man in Leeds, England with a lift of 221 kg. The current world record was set by Savickas at the 2013 Log Lift World Championships with a lift of 222.5 kg.

Log Lift World Record Progression

Year	Name	Log Weight	Location
1980	Bill Kazmaier	157 kg	USA
1981	Bill Kazmaier	163.5 kg	USA
1987	Jón Páll Sigmarsson	165 kg	Iceland
1988	Bill Kazmaier	170 kg	Hungary
1989	Jamie Reeves	177 kg	Iceland
1992	Jamie Reeves	180 kg	South Africa
2002	Svend Karlsen	185 kg	Sweden
2003	Hugo Girard	186 kg	Canada
2004	Zydrunas Savickas	188 kg	Ukraine
2004	Raimonds Bergmanis	190 kg	Russia
2005	Zydrunas Savickas	200 kg	Hungary
2005	Zydrunas Savickas	202.5 kg	Latvia
2006	Zydrunas Savickas	205 kg	Netherlands
2008	Zydrunas Savickas	207.5 kg	Netherlands
2008	Zydrunas Savickas	210 kg	Lithuania
2009	Zydrunas Savickas	212.5 kg	Lithuania
2012	Zydrunas Savickas	215 kg	Sarajevo
2012	Zydrunas Savickas	216 kg	England
2012	Zydrunas Savickas	217.5 kg	Netherlands
2012	Zydrunas Savickas	220 kg	USA
2013	Zydrunas Savickas	221 kg	England
2013	Zydrunas Savickas	222.5 kg	Lithuania
2014	Zydrunas Savickas	223 kg	Brazilia
2014	Zydrunas Savickas	227 kg	Poland

• Source of results:^[94]

2008

Zydrunas Savickas entered the 2008 Log Lift World Championships as the clear favorite, and intended to set a new record with 212.5 kg.^[95] Savickas' competitors included Mikhail Koklyaev, Ervin Katona, Sebastian Wenta, Oleksandr Lashyn, Tobias Ide, Agris Kazelniks, Oleksandr Pekanaov, Krzysztof Radzikowski and Saulius Brusokas.^[95]

The competition, held in Lithuania, saw each lift judged by three officials similar to Powerlifting and Olympic Weightlifting. The referees were Strongman Champions League founders Ilkka Kinnunen, Marcel Mostert and Latvian weighlifter Viktors Ščerbatihs, who had won the bronze medal in the +105 kg superheavyweight class at the recent Beijing Olympics. One of the strongest contenders, Oleksandr Pekanov, who had a personal best of 190 kg missed his opener of 180 kg three times. However, a number of other athletes came away with personal records, and two National Records were set. Zydrunas Savickas missed his world record attempt of 212.5 kg, but won the championships with his lift of 200 kg.^[96]

Results

#	Name	Log Weight
1	Zydrunas Savickas	200 kg (missed 212.5 kg for a new world record)
2	Mikhail Koklyaev	195 kg (NR)
3	Oleksandr Lashyn	195 kg
4	Sebastian Wenta	195 kg
5	Krzysztof Radzikowski	180 kg
6	Ervin Katona	180 kg (NR)
7	Agris Kazelniks	170 kg
8	Saulius Brusokas	160 kg
9	Tobias Ide	160 kg

• Source of results:^[97]

2009

The championships took place in Kaunas, Lithuania on November 21, 2009.

Results

#	Name	Log Weight
1	Zydrunas Savickas	212.5 kg (WR)
2	Krzysztof Radzikowski	195 kg (NR)
3	Vidas Blekaitis	190 kg
4	Ervin Katona	180 kg
5	Saulius Brusokas	170 kg
6	Agris Kazelniks	165 kg
7	Marys Leitis	165 kg
8	Aleksandr Mantserov	160 kg
9	Dainis Zageris	150 kg

• Source of results:^[98]

2010

The Log Lift Championships were not held in 2010, and was moved up to February 2011 to kick off the 2011 season of SCL.^[99]

2011

The 2011 World Log Lift Championships were held in Siemens Arena in Vilnius, Lithuania on Feb. 12, 2011 to kick off the 2011 SCL season.^[99] Key competitors were reigning champion Zydrunas Savickas, Vidas Blekaitis and Vytautas Lalas who finished in the top 3 places respectively, with Zavickas winning his 3rd straight log lift title. There were 12 athletes in total, 3 athletes failed their opening weight on all 3 attempts.^[100] The event was broadcast live on Eurosport.^[101]

Results

#	Name	Log Weight
1	Zydrunas Savickas	192.5 kg (missed 215 kg for a new world record)[100]
2	Vidas Blekaitis	190 kg
3	Vytautas Lalas	185 kg
4	Patrick Baboumian	185 kg (NR)
5	Ervin Katona	185 kg (NR)
6	Warrick Brant	182.5 kg (NR)
7	Bjørn Andrè Solvang	175 kg
8	Agris Kazelniks	175 kg
9	Marshall White	170 kg

2012

The 2012 World Log Lift Championships were held in Siemens Arena in Vilnius, Lithuania on Sunday Oct. 7, 2012.^[102] The contest took place in the same venue and during the same weekend as the first annual SCL Savickas Classic contest.^[52]

Official start list

• Zydrunas Savickas - 3 time defending log lift world champion, World record holder 220 kg^[102]
• Krzysztof Radzikowski - 2nd place 2009, Polish national record holder 210 kg
• Mikhail Koklyaev— 2nd place 2008, Russian national record holder 200 kg
• Vytautas Lalas - 3rd place 2011
• Vidas Blekaitis - 2nd place 2011, 3rd place 2009
• Ervin Katona— Serbian national record holder 185 kg
• Etienne Smit
• Jean-Francois Caron
• Agris Kazelniks
• Johannes Arsjo
• Alex Moonen
• Juha-Matti Jarvi

Results

#	Name	Log Weight
1	Zydrunas Savickas	210 kg[52]
2	Krzysztof Radzikowski	207.5 kg
3	Vytautas Lalas	205 kg
4	Vidas Blekaitis	200 kg
5	Mikhail Koklyaev	200 kg (NR)
6	Johannes Arsjo	185 kg
7	Jean-Francois Caron	170 kg
8	Ervin Katona	170 kg
9	Alex Moonen	170 kg
10	Juha-Matti Jarvi	170 kg
X	Ettiene Smit	Failed all 3 attempts

2013

The 2013 World'LogLift Championships were held in Siemens Arena in Vilnius, Lithuania on Saturday October 19, 2013. Savickas set a new world'record with a lift of 222.5 kg.^[103]

2014

The 2014 Arnold Strongman Brazil were held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on Saturday April 26, 2014. Savickas set a new world record loglift with a lift of 223. kg.

The 2014 Giants live Poland were held in Poland, POL on Friday May 9, 2014. Savickas set a new world record loglift with a lift of 227. kg.

The 2014 Arnold Strongman Classic were held in Colombus in Ohio, USA on Saturday Mars 1, 2014. Savickas set a new world record Tire deadlift with a lift of 524. kg.

The 2014 Europe strongest man on Saturday August 9, 2014. Benedikt Magnusson set a new record deadlift with a lift of 461. kg.

The 2015 Arnold Classic Australia on April 2015. Eddy Hall set a new record deadlift with a lift of 462. kg.

Results

#	Name	Log Weight
1	Zydrunas Savickas	222.5 kg (WR)
2	Vidas Blekaitis	205 kg
3	Krzysztof Radzikowski	200 kg
4	Dainis Zageris	185 kg
5	Matt Wanat	180 kg

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External links

• Official Site of Strongman Champions League
• Official Site of Strongman Champions League Gibraltar

Strongman Champions League Overall Champions 2008: Žydrūnas Savickas 2009: Andrus Murumets 2010: Terry Hollands 2011: Ervin Katona 2012: Žydrūnas Savickas 2013: Krzysztof Radzikowski