Consider all the amazing facts recorded officially and not only, and find out who is the most powerful person in the world, and most importantly, find out what they can do.
It is difficult enough to determine the strongest person on our planet. What in this case should be taken as a criterion? After all, one strongman can drag a multi-ton truck and even an airplane a few meters, and the other can lift a lot of weight, and the third, in general, can easily break bricks and concrete blocks.
The most powerful people on the planet:
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Arsen Manucharyan
We will begin our acquaintance with the strongmen with the young Arsen Manucharyan. The boy was born and grows up in a circus family, so it is not surprising that he has unusual abilities.
At the program, Arsen presented his fire show, and in the end showed his strength by stretching a car several meters, tens of times the weight of the boy himself.
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Elbrus Nigmatullin
Russia has always been famous for heroes, and it is difficult to determine who is the most powerful person in Russia, but for a long time this title belonged to Elbrus Nigmatullin.
Russian athlete was born in the Chelyabinsk region. From the age of 12, the boy began to play sports, and he himself built a gym in his yard.
Elbrus has repeatedly won the tournament "The Strongest Man in Russia." He is also Russia's record holder in vehicle traction. He extended a bulk carrier with a total weight of 760 tons along the Agidel River to a distance of 20 meters.
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Becca Swanson
American Becca has not only become the strongest among the fairer sex, but for a long time has been one of the ten strongest people on the planet.
The girl began with bodybuilding, but then switched to powerlifting. Of her latest records, weight lifting in a squat of 400 kilograms should be noted, and while an athlete lying down squeezes 270 kilograms.
Continuing to engage in power sports, Svenson began to talk more about arranging her personal life and creating a family.
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Od Hoginen
With a growth of 190 centimeters, this strong man weighs 134 kilograms. Such impressive data allows Ode to raise logs weighing more than 100 kilograms.
Since childhood, he began to systematically engage, and does not consider himself unique. The main thing, according to the strongest man, is correct and everyday training. Just imagine, but Hoginen’s dumbbells, with which he sometimes trains, weigh 83 kilograms.
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Dennis Rogers
When meeting with this man of medium build, you can’t say that he has tremendous power. Dennis can do incredible tricks with things. He easily breaks handcuffs, bends steel bars, and also tears reference books of 1,700 pages.
Dennis’s most spectacular stunt simply amazes the viewer. He fists a nail into a frying pan on a wooden bar, although the hand is not the strongest muscle in a person. Scientists have calculated that the speed of a hand when it hits a nail is 110 kilometers per hour.
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Dmitry Khaladzhi
A native of Ukraine Dmitry set 63 records during his career, which rightfully found reflection in the Guinness Book. He discovered unusual strength in himself in his early childhood, surprising his relatives when he bent horseshoes and broke chains.
One of his unusual records is raising a stone weighing 152 kilograms. And the “Devil's Forge” trick, when a concrete slab was smashed with sledgehammers on Dmitry’s stomach, hit the whole world and has no analogues in history. At the same time, the strongman himself lies on the nails.
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Mariusz Pudzyanovsky
Polish powerlifter Mariusz is now successfully performing in mixed martial arts and rugby competitions. And a glorious career began at age 11 with karate.
Among his sporting achievements, there are five titles of the strongest man on the planet. Mariusz also climbed the top podium 4 times in the bar lifting competition.
Strongman even managed to go to jail, but explained this by the desire to protect the young man from beating.
By the way, on thebiggest.ru there is a very interesting article about the most terrible prisons in the world.
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Mikhail Koklyaev
Like Nigmatullin, Mikhail is a native of the Chelyabinsk region. At 13, he came to weightlifting, and became the absolute champion of Russia in deadlift.
The Russian strongman eight times became the champion of the Russian Federation. In the clean and jerk, the Russian lifted a barbell weighing 250 kg.
After a successful sports career, he went into power extreme, where he continues to amaze his fans with new power records. In 2015, he moved and extended a multi-ton bus for several meters.
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Haftor Bjarnson
The world's highest strongman, Icelander Haftor Bjarnson, began his career in sports with basketball. This was not surprising with the growth of 2 meters 6 centimeters.
But after the injury, he went into power extreme, where he broke previously existing records. So, he became the strongest Viking, dragging a log weighing 650 kilograms 5 meters.
A strong Icelander with a colorful appearance manages to act in films.
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Vasily Virastyuk
Vasily twice proved to the world that he is the strongest man on earth. In childhood, he was involved in athletics, but after serving in the army, he decided to test his strength in power all-around.
His strength cannot but surprise. The whole world remembers how a Ukrainian extended 5 trams, the total weight of which was 101 tons, and also understood and installed four ice blocks of 15 kilograms each on the pedestals.
After completing his career, he left to work as an inspector in the border service and now he can be met at a post at the Lviv airport.
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Brian Shaw
The American strongman four times became the winner of the world competition of the strongest men on the planet.
In 2005, after he won the local championship, he switched to professional sports. Its performance is impressive - the deadlift is 420 kilograms, but in the prone position squeezed 238 kilograms.
Brynan continues his career, seeking to win new titles and set new records.
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Идydrunas Savickas
The Lithuanian entered the history of power sports as the strongest strongman who squats with a 400 kg barbell and can throw a 25 kg dumbbell to a height of over 5 meters.
Zidrunas became interested in powerlifting as a child when he saw power competitions on TV. Daily training and perseverance led him to high scores and victories.
Even the most serious injury did not incapacitate him, and after a while the strongman again set new records. Note that the Lithuanian has forty of them.
Valenitin Dikul
The older generation remembers this famous strongman, who was active in many areas in the 1970s and 1990s. But he became famous, working in a circus and showing amazing numbers related to weight lifting, juggling with cannonballs, kettlebells and other power numbers.
Surprisingly, as a young man, Valentin Dikul received severe spinal injuries and was confined to a hospital bed for a long time.
Conclusion
The most powerful people on the planet are admired. Many of them, thanks to fortitude, overcame problems and achieved high results both in sports and in extreme sports competitions.
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