Scotland's Tom Stoltman is celebrating this week after beating off competition from 29 other athletes to be named the World's Strongest Man (WSM). The 27-year-old Highlander, who hails from the port town of Invergordon, became one of the few strongman to win back-to-back titles on Sunday (May 29).
Held in Sacramento, California, for the second year running, the competition is by far the biggest in the strength sports calendar. Despite winning only one of the weekend finale's events, Stoltman finished in the top three in each task having sailed through last week's qualifying rounds.
Despite sitting in third position behind leader Oleksiy Novikov, the Ukrainian power house and 2020 title winner, with two events to go, his rival foundered in the power stairs. It gave the Scotsman a 1.5 point lead heading into the final event, and his favourite, the Atlas stones.
