2022 World’s Strongest Man Day One Recap and Results

This week the strength sports activities world will be taught the id of the strongest man on the planet.

The forty fifth version of the World’s Strongest Man (WSM) started on Tuesday, Might 24, 2022. As traditional, probably the most prestigious competitors in strongman started with a bang in the course of the first a part of the Qualifying Spherical on the Capitol Mall in Sacramento, CA. 

On this leg of the competitors, the 30-person roster of athletes needed to deal with the Loading Race and the Deadlift Ladder whereas divided up into their 5 respective qualifying teams. Right here’s the place the leaderboard stands after Day One, together with a brief recap of how every athlete fared within the first occasions of the competition. 

2022 WSM Leaderboard — Day One

2022 WSM Day One Outcomes

Listed below are the outcomes from every Group, together with every athlete’s particular person finishes, corresponding time, and inserting throughout the Loading Race and Deadlift Ladder occasions. 

Loading Race Recap

The day’s first occasion noticed opponents finishing a loading race the place they needed to journey eight meters whereas carrying 5 separate implements — a 220-pound “cannonball” Atlas Stone, a 265-pound keg, a 275-pound anvil, and two Rogue sandbags weighing slightly below 300 kilos every. Reigning WSM champion Tom Stoltman received his group, whereas Mitchell Hooper, Oleksii Novikov, Martin Licis, and Luke Stoltman all additionally had robust first-place showings of their respective teams. 

Sadly, Evan Singleton suffered an damage in the course of the occasion and needed to withdraw from the competitors, marking the third consecutive yr he was unable to complete the WSM (a torn biceps ended his 2020 run, and he caught a abdomen virus in ’21).

Group 1

1. Tom Stoltman — 5 implements, 38.39 seconds
2. Kevin Faires — 5 implements, 43.36 seconds
3. Aivars Šmaukstelis — 5 implements, 44.37 seconds
4. Andy Black —5 implements, 50.81 seconds
5. Gabriel Rhéaume — 5 implements, 53.39 seconds
6. Manuel Angulo — 4 implements, 70 seconds

Group 2

1. Mitchell Hooper — 5 implements, 38.31 seconds
2. Brian Shaw — 5 implements, 45 seconds
3. Gabriel Peña — 5 implements, 45.88 seconds
4. Konstantine Janashia — 5 implements, 49.47
5. Bobby Thompson — 5 implements, 49.70 seconds
6. Mark Felix — 5 implements, 54.96 seconds

Group 3

1. Oleksii Novikov — 5 implements, 37.25 seconds
2. Adam Bishop — 5 implements, 45.85 seconds
3. Mika Törrö — 5 implements, 47.84 seconds
4. Trey Mitchell — 5 implements, 48.76 seconds
5. Rob Kearney — 5 implements, 54.62 seconds
6. Grzegorz Szymanski — 4 implements, 29.89 seconds

Group 4

1. Martins Licis — 5 implements, 37.73 seconds
2. Maxime Boudreault — 5 implements, 40.68 seconds
3. Pavlo Kordiyaka — 5 implements, 43.70 seconds
4. Gavin Bilton — 5 implements, 45.76 seconds
5. Shane Flowers — 5 implements, 48.70 seconds
6. Nedžmin Ambešković — One implement, 10.2 seconds

Group 5

1. Luke Stoltman — 5 implements, 37.95 seconds
2. Kelvin De Ruiter — 5 implements, 39.18 seconds
3. Eythor Ingolfsson Melsted — 5 implements, 49.69 seconds
4. Jean-Stephen Coraboeuf — 5 implements, 52.70 seconds
5. Evan Singleton — 5 implements, 1:08 (withdrawn)
6. Kim Ujarak — 4 implements, 34.49 seconds

Deadlift Ladder Outcomes

The deadlift ladder exams power, endurance, and can. The respective opponents needed to carry out one deadlift utilizing 5 progressively heavier barbells — 300 kilograms (660 kilos),  320kg (705 kilos), 340kg (750 kilos), 360kg (795 kilos), and 380kg (840 kilos). Tom Stoltman once more got here out on high in his group, whereas Hooper, Novikov, Licis, and L. Stoltman all saved a relative tempo by doing the identical. 

Shane Flowers had a solid utilized to his foot and ankle after his remaining deadlift try, probably associated to an damage initiated after the Loading Race occasion earlier within the day.

Group 1

1. Tom Stoltman — 5 reps in 0:51.46s
2. Kevin Faires — 4 reps in 0:45.89s
3. Gabriel Rhéaume — 4 reps in 0:39.40s
4. Aivars Šmaukstelis — 4 reps in 0:55.91s
5. Andy Black —4 reps in 1:02.30s
6. Manuel Angulo — 3 reps in 0:38.62s

Group 2

1. Mitchell Hooper — 5 reps in 0:31.21s
2. Bobby Thompson — 5 reps in 0:42.56s
3. Gabriel Peña — 5 reps in 0:52.53s
4. Mark Felix — 4 reps in 0:28.64s
5. Brian Shaw — 4 reps in 0:32.20s
6. Konstantine Janashia — 3 reps in 0:19.05s

Group 3

1. Oleksii Novikov — 5 reps in 0:35.64s
2. Adam Bishop — 5 reps in 0:37.44s
3. Trey Mitchell — 5 reps in 0:59.00s
4. Rob Kearney — 4 reps in 0:41.28s
5. Mika Törrö — 2 reps in 0:26.65s
6. Grzegorz Szymanski — 2 reps in 0:26.91s

Group 4

1. Martins Licis — 5 reps in 0:43.59s
2. Gavin Bilton — 5 reps in 0:52.28s
3. Shane Flowers — 4 reps in 0:36.69s
4. Maxime Boudreault — 3 reps in 0:21.12s
5. Pavlo Kordiyaka — 3 reps in 0:38.50s
6. Nedžmin Ambešković — 3 reps in 0:45.45s

Group 5

1. Luke Stoltman — 4 reps in 0:42.87s
2. Jean-Stephen Coraboeuf — 4 reps in 0:53.87s
3. Kim Ujarak — 4 reps in 0:56.48s
4. Eythor Ingolfsson Melsted — 3 reps in 0:40.88s
5. Kelvin De Ruiter — 3 reps in 0:56.44s
6. Evan Singleton —  (withdrawn)

Day Two Is Subsequent

This yr’s WSM is just getting ramped up, and there’s nonetheless loads to type by earlier than the weekend’s Finals on Saturday, Might 28 to Sunday, Might 29, 2022. Wednesday’s Qualifying Spherical occasions will see the respective athletes strap a Volkswagen Bug to their shoulders in the course of the Automotive Stroll and problem their overhead power with the Log Elevate. It ought to undoubtedly be one other tight race to maintain a detailed eye on. 

Featured picture: Joe Martinez/World’s Strongest Man