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.
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 26 2 Wout Zijlstra 25.5 3 Rob Dixon 24 4 Karl Gillingham 21.5 5 Derek Boyer 20 6 Israel Garrido 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
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 27.5 2 Hugo Girard 27 3 Mark Philippi 22.5 4 Torbjörn Samuelsson 21 5 Marc Iliffe 14.5 6 Regin Vagadal 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 28 2 Martin Muhr 26 3 Travis Lyndon 25 4 Raimonds Bergmanis 17.5 5 Johnny Perry 16.5 6 Glenn Ross 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 31 2 Andrew Raynes 21 3 Heinz Ollesch 20 4 Ralf Ber 20 5 Brian Schoonveld 17 6 Levi Vaoga 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 31 2 Jarek Dymek 30 3 Odd Haugen 21 4 Adrian Rollinson 18.5 5 Johan van Heerden 16.5 6 Flemming Rasmussen 7 (injury)
Reserves Israel Garrido - used (Heat 1) Brian Bell Chad Coy
Final results # Name Nationality Pts 1 Svend Karlsen 53.5 2 Magnus Samuelsson 51.5 3 Janne Virtanen 50 4 Phil Pfister 46 5 Martin Muhr 40 6 Hugo Girard 38.5 7 Jarek Dymek 30 8 Wout Zijlstra 28.5 9 Juha-Matti Räsänen 25.5 10 Andrew Raynes 18.5
References
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