Cover: Steely-eyed and unwavering, Mariusz Pudzianowski became the first man to win the World's Strongest Man title five times.

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Cover: On the last lift of the competition, Matthias Steiner (Germany) cleaned and jerked the 258 kg he needed to win the Olympic gold medal.

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It was the last lift of the contest and in a fairy-tale ending, Matthias Steiner cleaned and jerked 258 kg for the gold medal at the 2008 Olympic Games.

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Cover: The last man to go, Derek Poundstone would win 2008 Fortissimus if he loaded this 517-lb. stone, which had eluded everyone else. Poundstone proved himself fully worthy of his name.

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Derek Poundstone wasn't supposed to be able to lift this 530-lb. stone.

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Cover: Richard Lupkes (l.) decided to start pulling again after 20 years--blowing through John Brzenk in a memorable re-match and taking the 2008 Arnold (shown here in his final match with Tim Bresnan (r.).

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Cover:Brad Gillingham was eyeball to eyeball with 390 kg, which would tie his lifetime personal record (2007 IPF Worlds).

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Cover:Gregor Edmunds warms up on the Braemar ("Inverness") stone at the 2007 World Heavy Events Championships.

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Cover:Stefan Botev, on his way to a bronze medal at the 1996 Olympics, while lifting for Australia: the first installment of the story of the Australian-Bulgarian relationship.

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Cover:Ilya Ilin (Kazakhstan) chalks up and eyes the bar loaded to 226 kg for his third attempt in the clean and jerk at the 2006 Asian Games.

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Ilya Ilin was the first lifter in history to win both the Junior and the Senior World Weightlifting Championships, and the Asian Games in the same year. Plus, he was the 2008 Olympic Games gold medalist.

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Cover:Turkey's Taner Sagir was more than good enough to win the 2006 World W/L Championships and continue his march toward Beijing.

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Taner Sagir: we call him "the werewolf of weightlifting." An electrifying lifter, Taner Sagir won a gold medal at the Athens Olympics.

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Cover:Phil Pfister is the first American in amost a quarter-century to win the World's Strongest Man contest.

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Cover: Ivane Grikurovi, quiet but potent grandmaster weightlifting coach behind two Olympic gold medalists.

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Cover: Phil Pfister bangs the Circus Dumbbell overhead for six reps at the 2006 Arnold Strongman Classic.

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Cover: Ilya Ilin (Kazakhstan) called for 216 kg, took a big swing, hit it out of the park, and won the 85-kg class at the 2005 World W/L Championships.

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Cover: Ryan Vierra turns the caber on his way to his fourth Heavy Events World Championships victory.

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Cover: Evgeni Chigishev (Russia) cleaned and jerked this 242.5 kg, earning the Best Lifter award at the 2005 European W/L Champs.

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Cover: Lithuanian strongman Zydrunas Savickas three-peats at the 2005 Arnold Strongman contest.

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