The 2010 World's Strongest Man was the 33rd edition of

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held at Sun City,

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from Sept. 15–22. Zydrunas Savickas won his second title, Brian Shaw placed second moving up 1 spots from 3rd place the previous year, and Mikhail Koklyaev placed third. In the finals, Zydrunas Savickas set a new world record in the Giant Wooden Log Lift for Max Weight event by lifting .

Line-up

Competitors – Original listing

Qualifying heats

Qualifying heats in

involve a series of six events. The field is divided into groups of six competitors with the top two in each of the groups reaching the ten man final. A win in an event gives a competitor 6 points, second place gets 5, and so on (4,3,2,1). If there is a tie at the end of the qualifier, the competitor with the most individual event wins gets the advantage.

Heat 1

(Shaw and Petursson advance to final)

Heat 2

(Poundstone and Hollands advance to final) † Szczepanski left the competition with a biceps injury during the Africa Stone (4th Event). He had 10 points after three events.

Heat 3

(Katona and Ortmayer advance to final) † Sadler left the competition with a torn biceps injury in the Medley (1st event) almost as soon as it began.

Heat 4

(Savickas and Best advance to final) † Although Best and Shahlaei tied in points, the tiebreaker is with individual event wins. Best won three events and Shahlaei only won one, so Best advanced to the final.

Heat 5

(Bergmann and Koklyaev advance to final) § Frampton, initially a reserve, replaced

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, who withdrew prior to the competition.

Final results

Source

Television broadcast

United States

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United Kingdom

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again screened both The

Giants Live Giants Live was created in 2009 as the official Tour that qualifies strongmen to compete in the annual World's Strongest Man contest. At each Grand Prix, up to twelve international strongmen come together and compete over six events. The top three ...

Tour (the official qualifying tour for The World's Strongest Man) as well as the finals. They were both aired before Bravo closed on Saturday 1 January 2011. Giants Live was shown on three consecutive days from Tuesday 21 December 2010 to Thursday 23 December 2010. The finals were broadcast on six consecutive days from Sunday 26 December 2010 to Friday 31 December 2010, with each episode dedicated to a qualifying group, and the sixth episode being the final. The UK broadcast was once again produced by

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for Bravo and featured presenters

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and Alex Reid. The commentators were

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and Colin J L Bryce and the outside broadcast was performed by 021 Television Ltd.

References

External links

Official site
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