2001 World's Strongest Man

Strongman competition in 2001 2001 World's Strongest Man 5-15 October 2001 Victoria Falls ZAM 30 17 NOR Svend Karlsen Sun City 2000 Kuala Lumpur 2002 The 2001 World's Strongest Man was the 24th edition of World's Strongest Man and was won by Svend Karlsen from Norway. It was his first title after finishing second the previous year. 1998 winner Magnus Samuelsson from Sweden finished second after finishing third the previous year, and 2000 winner Janne Virtanen from Finland finished third. The contest was held at Victoria Falls, Zambia. http://www.theworldsstrongestman.com/2001_results.php theworldsstrongestman.com 2010-01-16 https://web.archive.org/web/20100104031945/http://theworldsstrongestman.com/2001_results.php 4 January 2010 dead Qualifying heats Heat 1 Events: Carry & Drag (Duck Walk & Drag Chain & Anchor), Arm Over Arm Train Pull, Africa Stone, Max Deadlift, Stone Circle (Connan Circle), Atlas Stones # Name Nationality Pts 1 Juha-Matti Räsänen FIN 26 2 Wout Zijlstra NED 25.5 3 Rob Dixon UK 24 4 Karl Gillingham USA 21.5 5 Derek Boyer AUS 20 6 Israel Garrido ESP 9 Magnus Ver Magnusson of Iceland was originally intended to be within this Heat but had to withdraw making room for the reserve Israel Garrido.Archive of worldsstrongestman.com - 2001 summary http://www.theworldsstrongestman.com/wsm/history/results01.html theworldsstrongestman.com Archive of 2001 Qualifying round 2010-01-23 https://web.archive.org/web/20070916160645/http://www.theworldsstrongestman.com/wsm/history/results01.html 2007-09-16 Heat 2 Events: Carry & Drag (Duck Walk & Drag Chain & Anchor), Fingal's Fingers, Arm Over Arm Train Pull, Hercules Hold, Max Deadlift, Atlas Stones # Name Nationality Pts 1 Svend Karlsen NOR 27.5 2 Hugo Girard CAN 27 3 Mark Philippi USA 22.5 4 Torbjörn Samuelsson SWE 21 5 Marc Iliffe UK 14.5 6 Regin Vagadal FRO 13.5 Heat 3 Events: Carry & Flip (Farmer's Walk & Tyre Flip), Arm Over Arm Train Pull, Africa Stone, Max Deadlift, Stone Circle (Connan Circle), Atlas Stones # Name Nationality Pts 1 Magnus Samuelsson SWE 28 2 Martin Muhr GER 26 3 Travis Lyndon CAN 25 4 Raimonds Bergmanis LAT 17.5 5 Johnny Perry USA 16.5 6 Glenn Ross UK 13 Heat 4 Events: Carry & Drag (Duck Walk & Drag Chain & Anchor), Arm Over Arm Train Pull, Africa Stone, Max Deadlift, Stone Circle (Connan Circle), Atlas Stones # Name Nationality Pts 1 Janne Virtanen FIN 31 2 Andrew Raynes UK 21 3 Heinz Ollesch GER 20 4 Ralf Ber AUT 20 5 Brian Schoonveld USA 17 6 Levi Vaoga NZL 17 Bill Lyndon of Australia was originally intended to be within this Heat but had to withdraw making room for the Levi Vaoga who was not down as an official reserve. Heat 5 Events: Carry & Flip (Farmer's Walk & Tyre Flip), Fingal's Fingers, Arm Over Arm Train Pull, Hercules Hold, Max Deadlift, Atlas Stones # Name Nationality Pts 1 Phil Pfister USA 31 2 Jarek Dymek POL 30 3 Odd Haugen NOR 21 4 Adrian Rollinson UK 18.5 5 Johan van Heerden RSA 16.5 6 Flemming Rasmussen DEN 7 (injury) Reserves Israel Garrido Spain - used (Heat 1) Brian Bell UK Chad Coy USA Final results # Name Nationality Pts 1 Svend Karlsen NOR 53.5 2 Magnus Samuelsson SWE 51.5 3 Janne Virtanen FIN 50 4 Phil Pfister USA 46 5 Martin Muhr GER 40 6 Hugo Girard CAN 38.5 7 Jarek Dymek POL 30 8 Wout Zijlstra NED 28.5 9 Juha-Matti Räsänen FIN 25.5 10 Andrew Raynes UK 18.5 References External links Official site 2000 World's Strongest Man 2001 World's Strongest Man 2002 World's Strongest Man Category:2001 in sports Category:World's Strongest Man Category:2001 in Zambian sport