Lars Hedlund
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Born | January 24, 1949 Sweden | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | June 4, 2016 [1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Occupation(s) | Strongman, powerlifting | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 191 cm (6 ft 3 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Lars Hedlund (January 24, 1949 – June 4, 2016), was a former strongman and powerlifter from Sweden.
Strongman
Lars competed in three World's Strongest Man contests, finishing second at the 1979 and 1980 World's Strongest Man, and third in 1978.[3][4] Lars also won Europe's Strongest Man in 1981.
Powerlifting
Lars was a European Powerlifting champion in 1980, and the Scandinavian Powerlifting champion in 1979.[2] He competed twice at the IPF World Powerlifting Championships in 1977 finishing 6th, and in 1979 finishing third.[2] Lars set numerous bench press world records throughout his powerlifting career, his best lift was 628 pounds (285 kg) raw in 1980 in Copenhagen, Denmark.[2]
Honours
- 3rd place 1978 World's Strongest Man
- 2nd place 1979 World's Strongest Man
- 2nd place 1980 World's Strongest Man
- 1st place 1981 Europe's Strongest Man
See also
References
- ^ "Minnessida för Lars Hedlund".
- ^ a b c d e f "Hedlund Lars - results in powerlifting and benchpress, records, personal data, photos and video".
- ^ "theworldsstrongestman.com 1970s". Archived from the original on 2010-03-29. Retrieved 2010-01-17.
- ^ "theworldsstrongestman.com 1980s". Archived from the original on 2010-01-04. Retrieved 2010-01-17.
External links
- Strongestman.billhenderson.org
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Europe's Strongest Man champions
- 1980: Geoff Capes (ENG)
- 1981: Lars Hedlund (SWE)
- 1982: Geoff Capes (ENG)
- 1983: Simon Wulfse (NED)
- 1984: Geoff Capes (ENG)
- 1985: Jón Páll Sigmarsson (ISL)
- 1986: Jón Páll Sigmarsson (ISL)
- 1987: Ab Wolders (NED)
- 1988: Jamie Reeves (ENG)
- 1989: Jamie Reeves (ENG)
- 1990: Henning Thorsen (DEN)
- 1991: Gary Taylor (WAL) & Forbes Cowan (SCO) (tied)
- 1992: Ted van der Parre (NED) & László Fekete (HUN)
- 1993: Manfred Hoeberl (AUT)
- 1994: Magnús Ver Magnússon (ISL) & Manfred Hoeberl (AUT)
- 1995: Riku Kiri (FIN)
- 1996: Riku Kiri (FIN)
- 1997: Riku Kiri (FIN)
- 1998: Jouko Ahola (FIN)
- 1999: Jouko Ahola (FIN)
- 2000: Berend Veneberg (NED)
- 2001: Svend Karlsen (DEN)
- 2002: Mariusz Pudzianowski (POL)
- 2003: Mariusz Pudzianowski (POL)
- 2004: Mariusz Pudzianowski (POL)
- 2005: Jarek Dymek (POL)
- 2007: Mariusz Pudzianowski (POL)
- 2008: Mariusz Pudzianowski (POL)
- 2009: Mariusz Pudzianowski (POL)
- 2010: Žydrūnas Savickas (LIT)
- 2012: Žydrūnas Savickas (LIT)
- 2013: Žydrūnas Savickas (LIT)
- 2014: Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson (ISL)
- 2015: Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson (ISL)
- 2016: Laurence Shahlaei (ENG)
- 2017: Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson (ISL)
- 2018: Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson (ISL)
- 2019: Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson (ISL)
- 2020: Luke Richardson (ENG)
- 2021: Luke Stoltman (SCO)
- 2022: Oleksii Novikov (UKR)
- 2023: Pavlo Kordiyaka (UKR)
- 2024: Luke Stoltman (SCO)