Kevin Nowak to represent USA in 105KG worlds

[jared spybrook]

Good luck to Kevin Nowak who will soon be on his way to China to represent the USA against the best 105KG athletes in the world i have no doubt he will do us all proud. As a former US champion and just as well rounded of a strongman u can find i can think of no better athlete to take my place. As 105KG athletes we know that we are second to the heavyweights thats obvious by the recognition or rather lack there of from sponsers and promoters for example there isnt even mention of it on the ifsa site, but for now lets all get behind him and give him the support he deserves. Give em hell Kevin and keep us updated if possible.---spy

[Eric Todd]

Kevin will be a GREAT representative. He will do us all proud! Good luck Kevin, and safe travels!
ET

[Adam Keep]

Good luck Kev! My training partner is going as well and he said he will try to send updates if he can.

[IdrisH.]

Gook luck Kevin at 105K Worlds. :BL: Does anyone know if it will be brodcasted on tv?

[Garrick Daft]

Kick some ssa! Good luck!

[rickfreitag]

Good luck and safe travels Kevin!!! I know you'll do well and represent the U.S.A. with honor.

[benjamin d. moore]

Good luck Kev - Bring it home!

[tom_mcclure]

Good luck to Kevin Nowak who will soon be on his way to China to represent the USA against the best 105KG athletes in the world i have no doubt he will do us all proud. As a former US champion and just as well rounded of a strongman u can find i can think of no better athlete to take my place. As 105KG athletes we know that we are second to the heavyweights thats obvious by the recognition or rather lack there of from sponsers and promoters for example there isnt even mention of it on the ifsa site, but for now lets all get behind him and give him the support he deserves. Give em hell Kevin and keep us updated if possible.---spy
Sorry to hear you can't make it spybrook, that sucks. Kevin, you need to go over there and take care of business. Make Jared and the rest of us proud. Good luck man!

[BrentHamm]

Good luck budy...hope you do well.

Say hi to Kenny.

[IdrisH.]

Here is a link to an article about Kevin and they mention the competition:

http://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071125/SPORTS0103/711250308/1013

I found the link on www.americanstrongman.com.

[Bob Toth]

Knock'em out Kevin!!

Hope you have plenty of PRs...

[Lou Torres]

Kevin and his bro(Kirk) are two guys that I admire alot in SM.Them two pull off some amazing things.Give em Hell Kevin represent the US proudly...

[Brian_Worden]

I train with Kevin on Saturday's, and let me say that he will be a great rep!!!! Him, Glenn Kaifas, and Mike Gill are great teachers and i'm proud to have trained with them.

[BrentHamm]

Anyone know the dates? I think its this week...

[Mike Landrich]

Anyone know the dates? I think its this week...


Kevin leaves for China tomorrow. As for the dates of the actual comp, I'm not sure.

[Mike Gill]

Glenn talked with Kevin this morning. I asked him to get me some of those silk Kung Fu PJ's...

He's going to try and email us updates daily so we can let you guys know what is going on.

[TEXAS STONEMAN]

Good luck Kevin!!

[Evan Hansmann]

Kevin! Kick A$$ and Take Names! Make us all proud!

[Evan Hansmann]

Does anyone know what events there will be ?

[Mike Gill]

Does anyone know what events there will be ?


Ladder press
yoke
stones
farmers
tire
pretty standard stuff...

[JoeCSnavely]

Good Luck Kevin. Just listen to Big Brother, he'll tell you what to do. Grab-n-growl brotha!! Iron Sport Style.

Do you still qualify for that since you're a new yorker now?

Joe

[Kalle Beck]

Good luck Kevin!

[BrentHamm]

I believe the events are:

1.MEDLEY (tyre flip, sand bags carry, farmers walk)

2. CONAN CIRCLE
3. POLE PUSH
4. LOG LIFT

5. STONES
6. ARM OVER ARM
7. DEAD LIFT

8. FARMERS WALK (for time)
9. TRUCK PULL HARNESS AND ROPE
10. YOKE RACE

Not sure if the log lift will be done with those crazy ladder things like last time.

Kev in 05 (http://www.strongmanitoba.com/Competitions/2005/China/Video/PressKevin.wmv)

Me (http://www.strongmanitoba.com/Competitions/2005/China/Video/PressBrent.wmv)

Those things are embarressingly hard for thier little weight.

[Justin Blake]

i believe the events start tomorrow, TEAR EM UP KEVIN!

[Tom Mutaffis]

That press medley looked like one of the more awkward things I have seen...

Good luck Kevin!

[BrentHamm]

They were....cut into your legs a bit too. Not sure where they came up with the idea.

Waiting to see the results of day 1!

[BrentHamm]

Apparently Kevin is in 4th after the medley.

[BrentHamm]

Ironmind News (http://www.ironmind.com/ironcms/morenewsv6.php?id=2279#2279)

[BrentHamm]

From the anvil

Country Athlete Medley Pts
England Robert Scott 9.30m 1
Korea Min Hyogun 64.94 2
Germany Patrik Baboumian 64.69 3
Hungary Papp Gyula 61.58 4
Poland Piotr Piechowiak 53.94 5
Holland Fouad Hsaini 48.18 6
Austria Trawoger Gerhard 45.03 7
Sweden Danny Andersson 41.53 8
Latvia Maris Rozentals 41.52 9
Hungary Keszler Nos 41.06 10
Bulgaria Zdravko Zanev 40.58 11
South Af Jason Scheepers 40.12 12
Ukraine Sergi Konyushok 39.24 13
USA Kevin Nowack 38.87 14
Lithuania Avidas Brazdzius 36.97 15
Finland Janne Hartikainen 36.28 16
Estonia Gert Gorsanov 35.29 17




Medley consisted of athletes carrying two sandbags (100kg each) for 5 meters, loading onto platform; Walking 15 meters with Farmer’s (120kg each) in each hand; Then flipping a 350kg tire for four flips in a 90 second time limit.

[Tom Mutaffis]

Wow, first 10 competitors separated by a relatively small margin, just over 5 seconds... will be interesting to see how the field pulls apart through the next events.

Great job Kevin!

[BrentHamm]

Results after 4 events (http://www.americanstrongman.com/images/files/IFSA%20WORLDS%202007_1.xls)

Janne has the lead, maybe heading to his third win at the worlds? Looks like Kevin in in 8th.

[BrentHamm]

From sdf/finnish forum:

stones: hartikainen about 30s, Maris 35s, Sergi 36 ja fourth maybe alvidas (or danny?)

log press for reps ground overhead, 110kg (the plates were wrong size for the log, so no max log after all):
- Sergi 9x,
- Maris 8x,
- Hartikainen and 5 others 7x

Log battle: sergi won, but his knee got injured. Rules were not very clear in the head to head battle.

At the moment the situation is:
- Sergi 101,5
- Hartikainen 99,5
- Alvidas 90
- etc....

Tomorrow conan, yoke and truck pull with harness

[BrentHamm]

From americanstrongman.com

Day three events started with the Wenhua Down and Feather Cup Atlas Stones.
Instead of the round traditional stones, the stones were shaped liked Gold Chinese coins, ranging in weights from 110kg, 120kg, 140kg, 160kg, and 170kg.

The stones were loaded to an 110cm platform in a 90 second time limit. The top three finishers in the event were Janne Hartikainen of Finland (5 stones 30.05), Maris Rozentals of Latvia (5 stones 34.90), and Sergi Konyushok of Ukraine (5 stones 35.92).

Following the stones was the Royal Marina Cup Log lift clean and press for reps (110kg-75 secs). The top three finishers in the Log lift was Sergi Konyushok of Ukraine (9 repetitions), Maris Rozentals of Latvia (8 repetitions), and since there were six athletes that tied for third place with seven repetitions each, they drew names for the trophy cup. The name drawn was Patrik Baboumian of Germany.

The final event of the day was the pole push. The athletes drew names as to who would be paired together. The top three winners of the pole push were Piotr Piechowiak of Poland, Kesler Nos of Hungary, and Sergi Konyushok of Ukraine. The top three in the overall is now Sergi Konyushok (101.5 pts), Janne Hartikainen (99.5 pts.), and Alvidas Brazdzius (90.5 pts).

The final three events tomorrow will decide the overall champion.

The final three events are Panyu Tourism Yoke Walk, Guangzhou Daily Cup Conan’s Circle, and the Chime-Long Tourist Resort Cup Truck Pull.

Excel results (http://www.americanstrongman.com/competitions/results_detail.asp?ResultsID=74)

[barabas47]

thanks for the updates

[JohnCook]

Thanks for the updates!

Does anyone know what the DL height was? Maris Rozentals pulled 500 kilos..... :F:

[BrentHamm]

Can't say for sure, but it looks like the same stuff we used in 05. They may have changed the height.

This was Kev in 05 deadlifting... (http://www.strongmanitoba.com/Competitions/2005/China/Video/DLKev.wmv)

[JohnCook]

Thanks man!

That definitely looks like an awkward set-up.

[BrentHamm]

My gut tells me they probably had it higher this time around. But, could be wrong.

I hope they actual televise it this time. Not sure what happened to all the video shot in 2005. There were video crews all over the place.

[Jamie T]

Brent

your gut has to be right .. 500 kg from that height??? wow..

how heavy was the implement in the vid you posted from 05??

J

[Ian Duggan]

Here's the apparatus used this year -

http://74.205.126.46/ironmind/opencms/system/galleries/ironmind/Maris-Rozental_th.jpg

Hard to see exactly how much travel it has, but judging by the length of the legs at the bottom, it's not much.

Either way, 500kgs from almost any height for a 105 guy is pretty nuts.

[BrentHamm]

I have no idea what the weight was in 05. They jus added bricks to the thing tell it felt heavy. I would guess, it was like a 550lb deadlift in difficulty.

Sounds like Janne won for the thrid straight year. Really nice guy. Congrats to him and all the others.

[Adam Keep]

Hartikainen did win it again. It is on ironmind now. I would like to see the report soon though to see how Kevin did.

[BrentHamm]

Kevin got 10th.

Final results are up
here. (http://www.americanstrongman.com/competitions/results_detail.asp?ResultsID=75)

[barabas47]

nice job Kev,
Hartikainen has some pretty impressive log presses on youtube. 340 or something pretty smooth

[davebeers]

nice job Kev,
Hartikainen has some pretty impressive log presses on youtube. 340 or something pretty smooth
yeah, just got done watching his videos. Very impressive, especially where he does 300 for 4 on the log and then does a 410lb log bench for 2. His 400x4 front squat was impressive also.
Nice to know what the #1 guy is capable of in the gym, i guess we all need to step it up a little

[Eric Todd]

GReta job Kevin! Way to represent!
ET