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World Strongman Challenge

As with its two international counterparts it attracted the top quality strength athletes of its era, which included every winner of the World's Strongest Man competition from 1980 onwards including Jon Pall Sigmarsson, Geoff Capes and Bill Kazmaier from the 1980s right up to the current WSM champion Žydrūnas Savickas.

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The event immediately attracted the very best athletes in the field and the final placings in that inaugural 1987 competition saw both Jon Pall Sigmarsson and Geoff Capes on the podium.

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