Tom Stoltman

SCOTTISH star Tom Stoltman has defended his World's Strongest Man crown to become Britain's joint most successful champion.The Rangers fan, who has no.

Back to back? Almost unheard of." Stoltman is only the tenth man in the competition's history to win the title twice.

The 27-year-old followed up his victory in 2021 by finishing on top of the podium, with Oleksii Novikov of Ukraine and Martins Licis of United States 10 points ...

"But I was top three in all these events. "What a way to finish off on the stones. He is the only Scotsman to win World Strongest Man. No athlete has ever won six world strongest man titles, and Stoltman says he has an ambition to be the first to do it. TOM Stoltman says he is hungry to win more World Strongest Man titles than anyone else in history. Invergordon athlete Tom Stoltman is hungry to win six world titles after becoming World Strongest Man for second time.

The Scottish strongman revealed what he calls his secret 'superpower' earlier this year.

Stoltman said it was speaking to a clinical psychologist that helped him deal with his mental "fragility" and build up his confidence until it matched his physical strength. "Everything is quiet, without a thought in my head," he It will be just tunnel vision and I'd literally tear the bar apart until I'm either dead or get told to stop." He said an exchange with a teacher, someone he had trusted, who told him he would never amount to anything in his life was a particularly crushing blow His personal best squat lift in the gym is 345 kg (761 lb), and he is the current world record holder for the Atlas stones - where athletes have to lift small boulders onto a platform - with a 286 kg (631 lb) best. He took to his YouTube channel in February this year to share his experience with the condition. In the gym he has deadlifted 420 kg (930 lb), with a 215 kg (474lb) best in the log press.

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The Atlas Stones - Stoltman’s trademark event - was the final event, and because of his triumph in that discipline, he eventually won by 10.5 points. Stoltman said he felt stronger as the two-day competition continued, telling The National, “right now, my body feels unbelievable.” Stoltman began going to the gym with his older brother when he was 17, and the two pledged to compete together. Tom came in fifth place in the 2019 World’s Strongest Man competition, and finished second in the 2020 World’s Strongest Man competition winning three of the six events in the final. Stoltman became only the 10th contestant to win the competition twice, and the first strongman to do back-to-back since Brian Shaw of the United States won his third and fourth titles in 2015 and 2016. On Sunday (29 May), Stoltman defeated Oleksii Novikov of Ukraine in the last two events of the competition in Sacramento, California, to reclaim his title.