2013 Arnold Strongman Classic

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From Roger Lockridge via Arnold Sports Festival The 2013 Arnold Strongman Classic will feature two former champions as previous winners Brian Shaw and Derek Poundstone headline a a field of ten of the world’s greatest strength athletes who will battle in four events over two days to determine the world’s strongest man. The event will have a new champion as 2012 winner Mike Jenkins had surgery in late December and will not compete. In mid-January, six-time champion Zydrunas Savickas announced he would not compete in 2013 due to overtraining but plans to return to Columbus in 2014. Poundstone will be aiming for his first title since winning in 2009 and 2010. He did not compete in 2011 and finished one point behind Jenkins last March. Brian Shaw won the Arnold Strongman Classic in 2011 and would go on to win the World's Strongest Man later that year. The 2013 Arnold Strongman Classic, set for March 1-2 at the Arnold Sports Festival, will be contested over four events: The Austrian Oak, Manhood Stones, Tire Deadlift and Circus Dumbbell. 2013 Arnold Strongman Classic Competitors Michael Burke of Aurora, Colo. -- Winner of the 2012 All American Strongman Challenge at L.A. Fit Expo Haftor Bjornsson of Iceland – A 6-foot-9, 430-pound former basketball player who won Iceland Strongest Man in 2011 and was runner-up to Shaw at the Jon Pall Sigmarsson Classic Mark Felix of England -- Finished second at the 2013 All-American Strongman in January at L.A. FitExpoMikhail Koklyaev of Russia – Arnold Classic Strongman veteran who is four-time winner in Strongman Champions LeagueVytautas Lalas of Lithuania -- Finished third at the inaugural Arnold Strongman Europe in 2012Derek Poundstone of Waterbury, Conn. – Arnold Strongman champion in 2009 and 2010Jerry Pritchett of Buckeye, Arizona -- Won the 2013 All-American Strongman in January at L.A. FitExpoKrzystof Radzikowski of Poland -- Finished sixth at the 2012 World's Strongest ManAdam Scherr of North Carolina - Winner 2012 Arnold Amateur Strongman World ChampionshipsBrian Shawof Fort Lupton, Colo. – Arnold Strongman and World’s Strongest Man winner in 2011. Bodybuilding News Source: https://blog.bodybuilding.com