Strongman Smackdown Highlights: 24 Jan 2009

This past week, Team Iron Behemoths held its inaugural Strongman Smackdown at Hong Lim Park. Kudos to our members who showed up, stood up and were counted. They did pretty well for themselves.


The competitors battled it out in 3 strongman events: the 250kg Tyre Flip, the 240kg Sled Pull and the 100kg Farmer's Walk (click here for more contest details).

The first event was the Tyre Flip, where contestants had to flip a 250kg tyre 8 times in the shortest time possible.

Jon Boey

Spencer

Manyu

Anand

From the Czech Republic, Nick

They then moved on to the Sled Pull, where contestants had to pull a 240kg sled over a distance of 15 metres in the shortest time possible.

Yoshida

Anand

Yusri Bin Ali, Winner of the 2007 Strongman Challenge, pulling the sled!

The final event for the day was the Farmer's Walk, where competitors had to walk 15 metres in the shortest possible time, while carrying two 100kg logs, one in each hand.

Yoshida

Jon Boey

Spencer

Kevin

Our Guest-of-Honour for the day, MuscleWar Champion 2009, Jonas Tam. Before handing out the prizes, he gives us a preview of the upcoming Nationals and hits a few poses...

... with the ladies...

... and some of our members, like Anand and Jon Boey.

So after a long, sweaty, hard-fought battle, the Top-3 places went to:

Hiroshi Yoshida (2nd Runner-Up)

Yusri Bin Ali (1st Runner-Up)

And Nick, our 2-metre-tall Winner of Strongman Smackdown, who also happened to win the lucky draw - a 5lbs Optimum Nutrition 100% Whey Gold Standard! Guess it was really his day.