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Martin Wildauer

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Martin Wildauer
Martin Wildauer in 2015
Personal information
Birth nameMartin Marco Peter Wildauer
Born (1987-11-27) 27 November 1987 (age 36)
Austria Kufstein, Austria
Height6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
Weight145 kg (320 lb)
Sport
SportStrongman competitor
Medal record
Strongman
Representing  Austria
Strongman Champions League
2nd 2009 SCL Qualification FIBO
3rd 2009 Finland
3rd 2011 Germany FIBO
2nd 2013 Serbia
3rd 2013 Slowakia
2nd 2014 FIBO Germany
3rd 2014 Serbia
3rd 2014 Latvia
1st 2014 Portugal
2nd 2014 Croatia
2nd 2014 Poland
3rd 2014 Romania
2nd 2014 Estonia
1st 2014 Overall
World's Strongest Man
Qualified 2009 World's Strongest Man
Qualified 2011 World's Strongest Man
Qualified 2012 World's Strongest Man
Qualified 2013 World's Strongest Man
12th 2014 World's Strongest Man
Giants Live
1st 2011 Finland
3rd 2014 UK
Austrian Summer Giants
5th 2007
3rd 2008
1st 2009
1st 2011
1st 2012
1st 2013
Austrian Winter Giants
1st 2008
1st 2010
1st 2011

Martin Wildauer (born 27 November 1987)[1] is an Austrian strongman competitor and entrant to the World's Strongest Man competition. He is a competitor of the well-known Strongman Champions League and the Giants Live competitions. Martin is the current world record holder in the Bavarian stonelift.

Biography

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Martin was born in Kufstein, Tirol in Austria on 27 November 1987. He was a sports enthusiast even as a child and at the age of 10 started kickboxing. After winning some national competitions in Austria after two years he began boxing but due to school commitments he found he did not have the time to commit to boxing. With the time he did have he began weight training and although his parents tried to encourage this further by buying him weights at home he found that the best environment for his progress was the gym.

A meeting with a powerlifter introduced him to deadlifting and squatting and by the age of 15 he was deadlifting 200 kg. He began to compete at the age of 16 years and soon began to set records, thus far having set over 40 new national records. He moved into strength athletics at nineteen, winning his first competition, a qualifier for the Austrian nationals. He then placed 5th at the Austrian nationals, improving this to third the following year. In the same year he won the Austrian Winter Giants competition. In 2009 a second place at the Strongman Fibo classic, behind Travis Ortmayer, qualified him for the Strongman Champions League. At his inaugural outing in the league in Serbia, he won the car deadlift and came 5th overall. He went on to compete at the next Champions league meeting in Finland, where he set a new official world record in the car deadlift and came 3rd overall. This in turn got him an invite to the pinnacle of strongman, World's Strongest Man. In what was deemed the "group of death" which also contained Žydrūnas Savickas and Brian Shaw, he did not manage to qualify for the final. In 2009 he won the Austria's Strongest Man title.

Martin won the 2010 Austrian Giants competition[2] and 2014 MHP Strongman Champions League. In 2015, returning from an Achilles tendon injury, Martin won the Löwenbraukeller Starkbierfest traditional stone lifting competition in Munich, Germany[3] and broke a twenty-five year old Bavarian stonelifting world record.

He was trained by the renowned German strongman Heinz Ollesch.[4]

Personal Records

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  • Deadlift – 435 kg (959 lb)
  • Deadlift for reps – 340 kg (750 lb) x 10 reps
  • Squat – 380 kg (838 lb)
  • Bench press – 210 kg (463 lb) (Raw)
  • Log press – 170 kg (375 lb)
  • Axle press (for reps) – 150 kg (331 lb) x 7 reps (2014 SCL Poland)
  • Bavarian Stonelift – 350 kg for 94 cm and 325 kg for 100 cm (World Record)
  • Arm Over Arm Truck pull – 16,000 kg (35,274 lb) for 20 meters - 49.13 seconds (World Record)
  • Max Atlas stone – 200 kg (441 lb) x 4 times over a 4 ft bar
  • Weight over bar – 25.5 kg (56 lb) over 5.60 metres (18 ft 4 in) (2013 SCL Serbia)

Competition Record

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References

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  1. ^ "Official Home of the World's Strongest Man Competition". Archived from the original on 9 February 2010. Retrieved 16 January 2010.
  2. ^ "Martin Wildauer Wins Austrian Giant, Looks Toward WSM".
  3. ^ Strossen, Randall J. (31 March 2015). "Martin Wildauer win the traditional stonelifting competition in Munich, Germany". IronMind Enterprises, Inc.
  4. ^ "Martin Wildauer: Interview Englisch". Archived from the original on 3 May 2009. Retrieved 16 January 2010.
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