Arild "Hulk" Haugen (born 30 December 1985) is a former strongman and boxer from Sirdal Municipality, Norway.
At the age of 20 years and 267 days, he became the second youngest World's Strongest Man competitor in history when he participated at 2006 World's Strongest Man group 1.Youngest person to enter the World's strongest Man competition:World's Strongest Man, Arild Haugen was aged just 20 years and 258 days old at the 2006 World's Strongest Man event held in Sanya, China on 14–23 September. He currently lives in Sandnes, Rogaland.Arild Hulk Haugen, Facebook
Career Strongman Haugen's first competition was 2006 Norway's Strongest Man, and after winning second place to Svend Karlsen, he qualified himself to enter international circuit with organizers such as World Strongman Cup Federation and Strongman Super Series. In 2006 World's Strongest Man, he couldn't qualify to the finals.
Critiques suggested that Haugen had good potential, and in future would have rivaled Mariusz Pudzianowski; specially with his performance in the 2008 World's Strongest Man - group 4 where he broke the world record for the 5 Atlas Stones run (light set) in just 16.14 seconds to successfully make the finals of the contest. He won 2008 Strongman Super Series Viking Power Challenge and Norway's Strongest Man back to back in 2007 and 2008.
In his prime, he was capable of a squat, a deadlift (strongman standards, which remained the Norwegian national record for 18 years), a bench press and a axle press.
Boxing Haugen's first fight as a boxer was in December 2009 against Latvian Pāvels Dolgovs. He won by knockout 45 seconds into the first round. Haugen officially became a member of TreyWay Maudland after his first fight. In 2010 he fought Serbian Sejfula Berisa and Ivorian Jean Vidal Yemou and won both fights.
Personal records Deadlift – (2008 Strongman Super Series Viking Power Challenge) (Former Norwegian Record) Tyre flip – x 6 flips in 29.80 seconds (2008 Strongman Super Series Viking Power Challenge) (World Record) 5 Atlas Stones run – 16.14 seconds (2008 World's Strongest Man - group 4) (former world record)
References
External links Official web site