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Ok, so here we are with a new year and as is typical of ESPN, they showed the Strongest Man in the World ad nauseum, but no women. Or did I miss something? I know the events are held and women compete but there is no TV coverage. Any info involving the event results and where they can be viewed?
Thx

According to Wikipedia, Aneta Florczyk won the competitoon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World's_Strongest_Woman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World's_Strongest_Woman)

Aneta's rather young too. And incredibly strong.

Aneta has won a few in a row. ESPN stopped televising it a few years back. The strongman has been scaled back as well. The whole roid issue had something to do with it. They run it alot at dead time at the end of the year. The sport has lost it's appeal on TV....even on the men's end. They run it opposite informercials and at times like 3 am. The women's contest is out altogether with espn.

That's too bad, I enjoyed watching the Strongman competitions.  It gave me a lot of inspiration for a "strongwoman" comic.

Some pretty good clips are up at youtube of both strongwoman and some weightlifting. Some of the olympic syle lifters and powerlifters are impressive. Aneta has a few clips where she bends frying pans with her hands.

Thanks for the info ant. I was wondering what happened to a gr8 concept. So there are no more Strongest Woman in the World competitions I take it?

I'm sure they'd do the women's competition if it made money.  It probably didn't bring in enough revenue to justify continuing it.

They still have a strongest woman, but not sure if it is a world event now. Check youtube and you'll find lots of stuff. Some of it is titleed weird. I'll throw a few names at you when I get on there next time for the better looking ladies I found. A few weeightlifters were impressive;y built and not bad looking.

Kara Bohingan is cool. Check Melissa Garrett i you want to see an unbeleivably strong woman. I think 6- 2 and 320 and antural 500 bench. A few euro women who are not bad lookers too. Lots of cool stuff, but the search was done over toime and checking the sides and that tyoe stuff to find some of it. Strongwoman alone doesn't get all of it. Becca Swanson is a monster....though  I won't say anymore than that. Aneta has some cool clips. Lots of clips for her. There is acool weightlifter I like too. Got to find her name and see if anyoine agrees. Some guys liked her for sure by the comments. A euro girl who speaks no english. Blonde and about 175 or so I think. kgs over there. I think she is aht e181 class, but maybe 165.

The original strongwoman competition was held only three times and then it was cancelled after the sponsors withdraw because of the lack of public attention. 2004 they didn't have any international competition but in '05 came Strongwoman World Championships, which has been arrenged every year aside from 2007. (not sure about that, correct if I'm wrong)

From 2003 these competitions have been dominated by Aneta Florczyk of Poland. I have to say that she is quite impressive combination of strength, speed and stamina. She's not that big as you might thing but her resume leaves no doubts about what she is capable of:

POWERLIFTING*
Squat        245 kg
Benchpress  135 kg   
Deadlif       270 kg
   
WEIGHTLIFTING*
Snatch           105 kg   
Clean and jerk   135 kg

*From her website http://www.anetaflorczyk.com

Interesting detail that she was participating Polish version of "Dancing on ice" before this years competition, and wasn't able to prepare for it about 10 weeks, but still she won it with ease. Great ambassador for the sport.

Strength sport are unfortunately not so popular, not for just women's but also men's, and the media coverage is very small; in previous years I believe that those have not been even broadcasted on television.

Strongwoman competition is also quite new event, so not every woman involved in strength sport do participate these events. I believe that weightlifting as a olympic sport is the most popular, then powerlifting and then the weird combination of different events, strongwoman.

I hope strongwoman competitions would come more popular, because those are at least for my opinion quite entertaining. Then it would allure more sponsors and then more competitors like Jang Mi-Ran (world record holder and Peking winner in 75+ kg category) or Becca Swanson and so on.
   
Probably the biggest reason this is not the case is that most of the people don't find woman with muscles attractive. Although I believe that people are becoming more open minded, there is still possibility that strongman and -woman competitions will stay small circle business. The case of Becca Swanson was quite ridicilous if it is true that she wasn't invited because of her looks. This is supposed to bee strength contest but I guess not everybody agrees. Shame, it would been really interesting to see how this wonderful powerlifter would have performed.

Here you can find results from the previous years:
http://www.davidhorne-gripmaster.com/strongwomanresultsinternational.html

and youtube videos from this years competition:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_Vh1vHKXVE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzvMFTYiF8Q&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Keamd3xlwaQ&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCS6xB1peLI&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns4JfiXQIyU&feature=related

Thanks for the information, Maitolasi.  Though I am no great fan of Becca Swanson, I would be very annoyed if she wasn't invited on beauty grounds.  How backwards!

I don't remember how the other side replied to this, but this was Becca's side to the case. Whatever the reasons were, it is a shame to the competition titled "world strongest" if a powerlifting record holder can't take part in it.

Previous years there has been a shortage of organizers, but thanks to the active Poles, the competition has been arrenged. I guess strength sports are really popular there.

No problem. Glad if interested.

Had alot to do with the whole anti-roid thing and more to do with sponsors pulling out. Altoids was the sponsor. I think it might be hard to argue Becca, let alone some of the others, were drug free.
That is reality. I love strongwoman myself. You need marketable women for it to work on TV.

Fair enough.  The answer, therefore, is to drug test everyone and send home those who fail, not omit those who look and sound as though they are steroid users.

The show would not be  very good with drug esting.The WSM is always held in acountry that does not have laws against steroids. Ever notice that? The womens was the same deal.

Look at natural bbing. Why hasn't natural fbbing caught on even when fbbing had a cult following. The naturals looked like stick figures. Not many women in the sport who don't dabble. Lets be honest. They all will deny it because they have to. I should not even say that. Joanna Thomas and Kristy Hawkins were pretty up front up using on their TV appearances. Kristy said it in a different way, but she admitted.

I think it is accepted in the sport. The men's bbing never gets whrre it did without roids. Fans want roids. Just don't tell them. Only Melissa Garrett benched the 500 with a drug test and she's over 300 and real strong and big.

I'm just trying to be real. I like the look of the big girls. Sometimes it can be overdone and the roids do get you with heavy use over time. Some grils can persist for awhile without drastci change. Others can't. You hear tyhe voices. Some of the girls at the WSE sounded like truck drivers. You saw it. That doesn't sell well with sponsors and drug tested women would not often look the part.

The mens end has even lost some sponsors. Arnold, who tells you not to use roids, would be an absolute nobody without them. Think about what launched his career. Steroids. Good timing. Much like the CEO's who got out before everyone starting getting caught in fraud. It was always there.

My favorite girls are the big and bad ones with looks. It just is a hard look to keep for long.

The school teacher from Finland had the look they liked to sell and was very good in the competition. She came in just ahead of Robin Coleman for 2nd and behind Jill Mills. She  used speed in the events she could. Not as much brute power, but still real strong. Forgot her name. She stopped after the 2nd year and that hurt. You need one or two lookers to be fair.

No way is Becca passing a drug test if you've followed her whole career. She was about 180 and went to 240. Her bench went from 220 to 520. Just do the math and use your eyes and ears.

Just to toss it in....I've been around roids quite a bit. Played sports through college and have been around them my whole life. It gives you a real up close look to see how it changed guys you played with and what they said about it. I was a measly 315 pound bench guy which is laughable to most guys I pleayed with, though OI had other physical skills that made up for it. Having strangth and using it are two different things.

There are certain things you notice as obvious signs of use. I like how the girls look. I'm just telling it like it is. Some people never were around them and don't know much about roids. That obviously included all of the congressional guys who questioned ML basebal players.That was so amazing to me. So is their knowledge of finance....or lack thereof. Real scary stuff.

Have to agree with you. Let's be honest, stop the insincerity and admit that people like things beeing big: big numbers, big lifts, big people and so on no matter what it takes. People still talk about how Ben Johnson was so incredible, but then when he cought up using steroids, he was suddenly a traitor. Yes, in a way he is, because he didn't follow the rules, but somehow people wan't to believe that is not true even though they know nowadays how the reality is. But they don't care. Performance-enhancing drugs are part of the scene, always was and always will.

But ant already said these well. I'm just agreeing with him. But I don't want to change this in to a roid conversation once again. Let's just enjoy what we have. But I still like to bring up that not the strongwoman or -man competitions are always held in the countries where you can use roids freely. European contest have been held in Norway and Sweden, and I don't know how the law goes there, but I have quite a solid guess that it is not legal stuff there.


Heini Koivuniemi. Actually she was competing as long as until 2006. She didn't do very well anymore. She was not as strong as many of her rivals, but if I remember right, she was quite good in deadlift: over 200 kilos (440 lbs, for you cavemans ;) ) with IPF-rules.

(http://www.picarelli.com.br/fotolegendas/imagens/strongest_220902i.jpg)

Bumbed in to this video while surfing on the net. Heini threw a 12.3 kg (27.1 lbs) beer keg over a bar at a height of 3.46 m (11 ft 4.2in) on the set of Guinness World Records in Helsinki, Finland in August 2001.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MBlFy64i18

Didn't find whether this record still stands or not. Guess not. On Aneta's website (http://www.anetaflorczyk.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=2&Itemid=80/) you can suggest what record she's going to try break next, and this is one of the alternatives. I voted for this because this it's quite weird but interesting. I think people in the scene might patronize these kind on strength features, bur as for a everyday regular guy, these are interesting and fun to watch. And that Guinness records are all about I reckon. I guess olympic lifters would perform very well in this explosive movement.

Edit: typos, typos. Sorry about my English.

Good stuff guys. I wish they would find a drug to make the girls so big and strong without the side effects. Some still look great for awhile. The roids of today aren't quite as bad as the old school ones, but they still go back to needing to have some testosterone base. The HGH helps get more growth now. You still need to roids though.

It is a contradiction. People want the biggest and the baddest, but in money sports it is cheating. Bodybuilding is not a big money sport, so people didn't care about abuse. Baseball records going down was big enough to bring congress into it.

I can see why the WSW and even the WSM has died down though. Hard to want to sponsor that from an image point of view. I'd sponsor it, but if I want my product to sell....I can't really do that. You have to avoid controversy. The sponsor money went into fitness and even that is less now.

Lori Steele interviewed NPC bodybuilder Jennifer Cowan & Strongwoman Becca Swanson on Siouxcountry Radio.

Interview posted: Wed, 11 Feb 2009

Click on the link below and scroll down to find it.............

http://www.siouxcountryradio.com/

If only she was bigger

I'm lifting old posts here, but I got curios, about who are you talking here.

Lidia Valentin was actually the girl I meant in that post. You can find her on youtube.

Ohh Lidia, I'm actually quite familiar with her appearance and achievements already ;)

While I was going through some old weightlifting material, popped in my mind that what happened to Agata Wróbel? She injured her arm and wasn't able to continue her olympic lifting so she chanced in to the strongwoman competition. She was in some small event but since that I don't remember seeing her in any sports.

She would propably have been quite a force to be reckoned with, since beeing one of the greatest 75+ kg lifters. At least she had the potential and as a Pole she would obviously have no difficulties finding strongwomen knowhow and experience.

Maybe her arm interfered with her training too much. I don't know.

Anyway  I guess she did some training with Aneta when this future multiple strongwoman champion was in national weightlifting team.

(http://www.heavysports.com/emagimages/4.jpg)

Not wishing to start or continue any national stereotypes, but the Poles do seem a strong people - Worlds Strongest Man and Woman titles both are hed by Poles, I think. ??? 8)

Yep. Strength sports are really popular there.Strongman and -woman, weightlifting, powerliftimg, you name it, but you can see Poles there at the top.

Wróbel owns junior world records in 75+ kilos category and if I recall correctly, she hold those in senior level too but that have been bested since by Jang Mi Ran and some Chinese lifter whose name I can't remember.

Here's some of her training http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DetIEatFss

Interesting note that she seems to be training in England  ???

There were quite a lot of Poles coming to live and work here while our economy was strong.