Tom Stoltman Wins the World’s Strongest Man 2024 Crown

TOM STOLTMAN IS all over again the World’s Strongest Man.

The 29-year-passe Scot took attend his SBD World’s Strongest Man title from Canadian Mitchell Hooper, who exact edged out Stoltman for the tip map in 2023. The pair switched locations for the 2024 contest, which used to be staged from Might perhaps perhaps perhaps also 1 to 5 in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Stoltman, representing Big Britain, won the hallowed strength sport championship for the third time with fifty three aspects. Hooper used to be the runner up with 47.5 aspects, and the US’s Evan Singleton rounded out the rostrum with 36 aspects. Stoltman won his first pair of titles in attend-to-attend victories in 2021 and 2022.

“I wasn’t going dwelling with out [the win] this year. Winning the title is special even as you catch it, however to reach attend from losing it and to catch it’s additional special,” Stoltman said following the match. “I worried myself getting the lead after the first day. I wasn’t favored to catch three occasions so that you can reach out on top for all three used to be a shock. Someone can beat somebody on any given day, however I assume it came down to who wished it most, and this year, I wished it most.”

Stoltman took the lead after the qualifying rounds of the competitors and came out on top at stop, with his sturdy performances across all six of the Final occasions cementing the catch. He handiest took first in a single match—his specialty and the last match of the competitors, the Atlas Stones—however finished within the tip three for all of the others. Notably, Stoltman, Hooper, and Canadian Wesley Derwinsky finished tied with a brand new world document of seven.76 meters within the Keg Toss, the last match of the penultimate day of competitors. That broke a veteran held by four-time champ Brian Shaw, who officially retired from competitive Strongman last year.

Stoltman positions himself as surely one of many all-time colossal World’s Strongest Man competitors with his third title in four years; he’s the first athlete from Big Britain to catch three times. He and Hooper bear emerged within the previous couple of years as the tip athletes within the game, also sharing the rostrum on the Arnold Strongman Classic match (which Hooper won in 2023 and 2024). Every athletes are below 30 (Hooper is 28), which ought to position them—and followers of strength sports activities—for more tight battles for future years.

Followers hoping to gather the action they missed out on from South Carolina are in luck. A broadcast of the competitors will air later this summer on CBS and CBS Sports activities Community.

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