Stefán Sölvi Pétursson

Date of birth: March 20th 1986

Height: 195cm / 6foot 5inches

Weight: 155kg / 340lbs

 

I started training in the fall of 2003 and focused on powerlifting at the beginning. With that I wanted to build up base strength before trying strongman which had been my dream since I was a kid watching Jón Páll Sigmarsson.

 

 In 2004 I competed in a few powerlifting competition which did not go very well in the beginning as I had a hard time learning how to use equipment powerlifters tend to use.

 

In 2005 I started competing in strongman along side my powerlifting training. In august that year I won my first title when I won a local competition in Iceland called Austfjarðatröllið ( East Coast Giant ). Later in the winter I went to Finland with my training partners and friends Benedikt Magnússon and Pétur Bruno, to compete at a powerlifting competition. I lifted a easy 350kg/770lbs deadlift which was a teen world record. My friend Benedikt lifted 440kg/970lbs in the deadlift and that was the heaviest lift ever in that discipline at the time.

 

 In January 2006 I started to focus my training on strongman. That year I won Iceland´s Strongest Viking and East Coast Giant competitions and did my first international strongman comps in Scotland and Ukraine. I then participated in the IFSA World Championships and was very close to making it to the final stage at only 20years of age.

 

In the first competition of the year 2007 I tore my left bicep tendon and was forced to pull out from the tournament. The injury required surgery and I missed the whole strongman season that year. I focused on recovery and to come back even stronger next year.

 

After hard training I came back in good shape in 2008. I did alot of competitions in Iceland as well as internationals and kept improving. I won Iceland´s Strongest Man and Iceland´s Strongest Viking was also invited to Scotland to try highland games which I enjoyed very much. Later in the year I was invited for the first time to The World´s Strongest Man competition but only managed 4th positition in my qualifying group and did not make the final.

 

2009 was good with plenty of competitions abroad. I kept slowly improving and gather experience. Won Iceland´s Strongest Man and Viking and qualified for WSM. But got a very difficult qualifying group in which I got 3rd place in so again missed the final.

 

The competition season in 2010 was long and hard. Iceland Strongest Man title was defended easily but in the Viking Power Challenge in Norway I tore some muscle fibers in my calf in the first event and had to stop. Because of this I missed Iceland´s Strongest Viking competition. But after recovery I deceided to do next competitions carefully and as training. Focusing on being 100% at the World´s Strongest Man competition. With good help I managed to go to training camp in Lithuania with the strongest strongman athlete of all time, Zydrunas Savickas. Training there went great and I learned alot.... ( Information about placings at 2010 WSM will come after the tv shows have been broadcasted. )

 

 

Apollons Axle 192,5kg / 424lbs

Log lift 175kg / 385lbs

Squat 330kg /728lbs

Benchpress 226kg / 500lbs

Deadlift 390kg / 859lbs

Atlas Stone 210kg / 462lbs for 3reps over 135cm / 54inches

Keg toss for height. 21kg/46lbs over 5,8m/19feet and 25kg over 5,4m/17feet 8inches

25kg/56lbs weight for height. 5,49m/18feet

  

 

East Coast Giant 2004 6th.

 

Strongest Strongman 2005 Akureyri 5th

Iceland´s Strongest Viking 2005 7th

East Coast Giants 2005 1st.

 

IFSA Iceland´s Strongst Man 2006 2nd

Iceland´s Strongest Viking 2006 1st.

Callander games Scotland 2006 5th

World´s strongest nation 2006 Ukraine Team competition. Iceland placed 3rd in its group.

East Coast Giant 2006 1st.

IFSA World Championship 2006 5th in qualiftying group number 3.

Arnold challenge 2006 Ukraine 8th

 

IFSA Iceland´s Strongest Man 2007 (injured - bicep tear)

 

Arnold challenge 2008 Ukraine 5th

Texas Strongman Classic 2008 1st

Strongman Champions League Serbia may 2008 5th

FÍK Strongest Man In Iceland 2008 1st

Iceland´s Strongest Man 2008 2nd

Fortissimus 2008 Canada 8th

Iceland´s Strongest Viking 2008 1st.

Highlander challenge Scone Palace 5th in heat 2.

Callander Highland Games 2008 8th

World´s Strongest Nation 2008 Team competition. Iceland got 5th place.

East Coast Giant 2008 1st

World´s Strongest Man 2008 4th in group 1.

New Hamshire Highland Games 2008 1st.

 

Icelandic Log lift championship 2009 2.-3rd.

Viking Power Challange 2009 4th

Iceland´s Strongest Man 2009 1st

Highlander Challange 2009 North Ireland 6th.

Iceland´s Strongest Viking 2009 1st.

Callander Highland Games 2009 Scotland 6th

Killin Highland Games 2009 Scotland 7th

Giants Live Poland 2009 3rd

World´s Strongest Man 2009 3rd in group 2.

Strongman Super Series Venice Beach CA 2009 9th

 

Icelandic Log lift championship 2010 2nd

Giants Live - South Africa 2010 4th and Africa Grand Prix 3rd.

WSM Experience London 2010 5th

London Scotish Rugby Club Highland Games 2010 5th

Iceland´s Strongest MAn 2010 1st.

Carmunnock Highland Games 2010 6th.

Viking Power Challenge 2010 Storefjell Noregi - (Injured and pulled out)

Callander Highland Games 2010 8th.

Giant´s Live Pólland 2010 8th.

World record attempt Antonov 124-100 plane pull Ulyanovsk Rússland 2010

Lithuanian Strongman Championship 2010 5th.

World´s Strongest Man 2010 Sun City South Africa 4th place.

Giant´s Live Turkey 2010 3rd place.

JPS Classic (Had to pull out due to being sick)