[grosum]

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

[shortish]

According to Wikipedia, Aneta Florczyk won the competitoon.

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

[BlackKusanagi]

Aneta's rather young too. And incredibly strong.

[ant1937]

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.

[TC2]

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

[ant1937]

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.

[grosum]

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.

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?

[Lingster]

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.

[ant1937]

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.

[Trash Boat]

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

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