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Final up to date on January tenth, 2025
The 2025 Arnold Strongman Classic (ASC) has gotten a lot spicier. On Jan. 10, 2025, Rogue Health introduced a $101,000 bounty to any strongman who can deadlift 501 or extra kilograms throughout the Elephant Bar Deadlift occasion. Which means ought to any opponents match or exceed the heaviest deadlift ever pulled, they are going to be awarded a six-figure prize purse separate from the ASC prize pool.
“Bounty stays. $101K to any athlete who pulls 501 kilograms or extra throughout the Elephant Bar Deadlift on the Arnold Strongman Traditional,” Rogue Health’ Instagram caption learn.
The problem was rapidly accepted by the one athlete ever to drag such a monstrous weight: three-time ASC champion Hafthor Björnsson.
[Related: Mitchell Hooper Issues Deadlift Challenge to Hafthor Bjornsson]
Solely two athletes in historical past have efficiently entered the 500-kilogram deadlift club. 2017 World’s Strongest Man (WSM) Eddie Hall was the primary human to realize the 500-kilogram threshold on the 2016 World Deadlift Championships (WDC). 4 years later, in Might 2020, Björnsson chipped an additional kilogram onto that document throughout the World’s Final Strongman (WUS) “Feats of Power” Sequence throughout the international COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns.
Notably, Björnsson presently holds the Elephant Bar Deadlift world record at 472 kilograms.
Reigning two-time ASC champion Mitchell Hooper has expressed his intent to contend for the all-time deadlift world document, as has three-time reigning WSM champion Tom Stoltman, who will compete alongside Björnsson in Columbus, OH, from Feb. 28 by way of March 2, 2025.
The 2025 Arnold Strongman Traditional Roster
Beneath are the athletes who’ve the chance to make historical past and rating $101,000 within the course of:
- Mitchell Hooper — Two-Time Reigning ASC Champion
- Hafthor Björnsson — 2018 WSM champion
- Austin Andrade
- Bobby Thompson
- Evan Singleton — 2024 WSM Bronze Medalist
- Lucas Hatton
- Mateusz Kieliszkowski — 2024 Magnus Ver Magnusson Strongman Traditional Champion
- Maxime Boudreault
- Nick Guardione — 2024 Official Strongman Video games Males’s Open Champion
- Tom Stoltman — Three-Time Reigning World’s Strongest Man
- Trey Mitchell — Two-Time Shaw Traditional Champion
In 2024, it appeared that Björnsson had sufficient within the tank to probably exceed his present Elephant Bar Deadlift world document. Nonetheless, he declined to make that try as he had already secured the occasion win with a prime pull of 460 kilograms and needed to preserve vitality for the rest of the competitors.
Equally, Hooper had strategized securing a second-place end to Björnsson within the deadlift occasion on the premise that he might outperform Björnsson within the different occasions — a prediction that got here to fruition.
With a six-figure incentive to enter the 500-kilogram membership, the competing strongman are unlikely to move up their makes an attempt at historical past. We’ll see how far they’ll push the all-time Elephant Bar Deadlift world document after they converge on Columbus.
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