1998 World's Strongest Man

Strongman competition in 1998 1998 World's Strongest Man 8-18 October 1998 Tangier MAR 40 23 Sweden Magnus Samuelsson Primm Valley Resort 1997 Malta 1999 The 1998 World's Strongest Man was the 21st edition of World's Strongest Man and was won by Magnus Samuelsson from Sweden. It was his first title after finishing third the previous year. 1997 champion Jouko Ahola from Finland finished second, and Wout Zijlstra from the Netherlands finished third. This year had 10 qualifying heats with the winner of each heat going on to the finals. Half the field were injured during the finals of the contest, as well as several heat winners prior to the finals such as Flemming Rasmussen and Gerrit Badenhorst. The contest was held in Tangier/Tétouan, Morocco. http://www.theworldsstrongestman.com/1990s_results.php theworldsstrongestman.com 2010-01-13 https://web.archive.org/web/20100104032022/http://theworldsstrongestman.com/1990s_results.php 4 January 2010 dead Heats Group 1 PositionNameNationalityPoints 1. Riku Kiri FIN 14.5 2. Torben Sorrenson DNK 11 3. Jaromir Nemec CZE 8 4. Ralph Williams USA 4.5 (injured) Group 2 PositionNameNationalityPoints 1. Flemming Rasmussen DNK 14 (injured) 2. Russ Bradley ENG 10 2. Martin Muhr DEU 10 4. Ginaud Dupuis CAN 6 Group 3 PositionNameNationalityPoints 1. Pieter de Bruyn SAF 13 2. Heinz Ollesch GER 13 3. Glenn Ross NIR 9 4. Terry Brennan USA 5 Group 4 PositionNameNationalityPoints 1. Wout Zijlstra NLD 14 2. Derek Boyer FJI 12 3. Kurt Kvikkstad NOR 7 3. Fraser Tranter ENG 7 Group 5 PositionNameNationalityPoints 1. Gerrit Badenhorst SAF 14 (injured) 2. Lee Bowers ENG 10.5 3. Ralf Ber AUT 10.5 4. Gustavo Pujadas ESP 5 Group 6 PositionNameNationalityPoints 1. Magnus Samuelsson SWE 15 2. Jamie Barr SCO 10.5 3. Wayne Price ZAF 10 4. Michael Abdullah JPN 4.5 Group 7 PositionNameNationalityPoints 1. Berend Veneberg NLD 13 2. László Fekete HUN 11 3. Žydrūnas Savickas LTU 9 4. Ken Brown USA 7 Group 8 PositionNameNationalityPoints 1. Torfi Ólafsson ISL 13 2. Janne Virtanen FIN 13 3. Phil Pfister USA 10 4. Alexander Matveev RUS 0 (injured) Group 9 PositionNameNationalityPoints 1. Mark Philippi USA 16 2. Evgeny Popov BGR 11 3. Bill Lyndon AUS 9 4. Vladimir Turchinsky RUS 4 Group 10 PositionNameNationalityPoints 1. Jouko Ahola FIN 15 2. Hugo Girard CAN 12 3. Stuart Murray SCO 7 4. Gunnar Thor ISL 6 Events of the final Farmer's walk Truck pull Husafel stone Car rolling Power stairs Log lift Car circle Medley Final results # Name Nationality Pts 1 Magnus Samuelsson SWE Sweden 73 2 Jouko Ahola FIN Finland 67 3 Wout Zijlstra NED Netherlands 62 4 Phil Pfister USA United States 51 5 Pieter de Bruyn RSA South Africa 46 6 Riku Kiri FIN Finland 26 (injured) 7 Torfi Olafsson ISL Iceland 19 (injured) 8 Mark Philippi USA United States 18 (injured) 9 Berend Veneberg NED Netherlands 9 (injured) 10 Hugo Girard CAN Canada 5 (injured) References External links Official site 1998 results at Bill Henderson's Strongest Man site 1997 World's Strongest Man 1998 World's Strongest Man 1999 World's Strongest Man Category:World's Strongest Man Worlds Strongest Man, 1998