Arnold Strongman Classic

Arnold's Classic Cup

The Arnold Strongman Classic is a strongman sport competition that has been held since 2002 as part of the annual Arnold Sports Festival (until 2005 Arnold Fitness Weekend ).

Since the international strongman association IFSA launched its own world championships in 2005, the global strongman scene has been characterized by competition between IFSA and the organizers of the most prestigious strongman competition to date, The World's Strongest Man (WSM) . This led, among other things, to the fact that IFSA athletes were banned from starting competitions of the competition and vice versa. As a result, the IFSA Strongman World Championship and The World's Strongest Man each have their own participants and have a lower sporting reputation than the WSM decisions made before 2005.

The WSM and IFSA athletes meet at the Arnold Strongman Classic , which is what makes this event so special. So far, the IFSA athletes have been able to excel here. The Lithuanian Žydrūnas Savickas dominated the strongman scene even before the separation and won the competition a total of eight times since 2003, taking six titles in a row from 2003 to 2008.

All podium places in the Arnold Strongman Classic

year	1st place	place 2	place 3
2002	Mark Henry	Svend Karlsen	Phil Pfister
2003	Žydrūnas Savickas	Svend Karlsen	Raimonds Bergmanis
2004	Žydrūnas Savickas	Svend Karlsen	Raimonds Bergmanis
2005	Žydrūnas Savickas	Vasyl Virastyuk	Glenn Ross
2006	Žydrūnas Savickas	Vasyl Virastyuk	Mikhail Koklyayev
2007	Žydrūnas Savickas	Vasyl Virastyuk	Andrus Murumets
2008	Žydrūnas Savickas	Derek Poundstone	Mikhail Koklyayev
2009	Derek Poundstone	Mikhail Koklyayev	Travis Ortmeyer
2010	Derek Poundstone	Žydrūnas Savickas	Travis Ortmeyer
2011	Brian Shaw	Mike Jenkins	Žydrūnas Savickas
2012	Mike Jenkins	Derek Poundstone	Žydrūnas Savickas
2013	Vytautas Lalas	Brian Shaw	Mikhail Koklyayev
2014	Žydrūnas Savickas	Brian Shaw	Mike Burke
2015	Brian Shaw	Žydrūnas Savickas	Mateusz Kieliszkowski
2016	Žydrūnas Savickas	Brian Shaw	Vytautas Lalas
2017	Brian Shaw	Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson	Jerry Pritchett
2018	Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson	Brian Shaw	Mikhail Shivlyakov
2019	Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson	Martins Licis	Mateusz Kieliszkowski
2020	Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson	Mateusz Kieliszkowski	Martins Licis

Web links

• official homepage
• Results since 2006 ( Memento from June 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ various competition reports ( Memento from November 4, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
2. ^ Arnold Strongman Classic: Arnold Sports Festival USA. Retrieved July 29, 2018 .