Strongest man alive 1998

[Eric Todd]

Does anyone have a link for the Strongest man alave contest in 1998 or at least know some of teh names of people that were there? I know Ive seen the results online before.
ET

[JustinHulick]

Does anyone have a link for the Strongest man alave contest in 1998 or at least know some of teh names of people that were there? I know Ive seen the results online before.
ET
I found a link to the strongest man alive, but it is for 2004. Maybe it has a link on there for previous years though...Hope i helped you some.

Strongest Man Alive (http://www.strongestmanalive.com/)

[Paul F.X. Armstrong]

Does anyone have a link for the Strongest man alave contest in 1998 or at least know some of teh names of people that were there? I know Ive seen the results online before.
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off the top of my head
Placings Heavyweights:
1)Ahola
2)Pfister
3)Neese
4)Baskin


Jeff maddy was 9th,Pat Rankin was 10th,Vai mafuli was in the top 10
Ed Broast and another canadian also in top 10.

Kaz ,Magnus ver and Phil Martin were judges.

There is a great video of the entire show(heavies and Light heavy weights)but I loaned my copy out and never got it back.
Ahola's training partner won the light heavies.
other heavies(didn't make it to the finals)Gary Mitchell,Phil Makidisi,

[Eric Todd]

Thanks. Also looking fo results from St Louis Strongman II in 1999.
ET

[Paul F.X. Armstrong]

Thanks. Also looking fo results from St Louis Strongman II in 1999.
ET
Phil won that one.
Whit had just done WSm a few weeks before hand and was 2nd.
Pat Rankin was 3rd.
I think both karl and Wade competed--Big vai was there--Magnus ver competed--

[Paul F.X. Armstrong]

SMA 1998 the "other canadian" was Grant mcReynolds(i'm pretty sure)
Also of note was Big Tony Scrivens competed---missed the finals by one placing--he was 11th overall(from points accumulated in day 1)--i hung out quite a bit with Big Tony and i remember he passed out on the Yoke(low blood sugar-?-)
-myself and Brian Neese had to pick him up(well sort of pick him up)-
Tony put on a clinic on the 240lb Log Incline for reps :p

[Jeff King]

I have the vhs video of the 1998 contest. :D :cool:

[Paul F.X. Armstrong]

I have the vhs video of the 1998 contest. :D :cool:
Remember the kid in the kilt-?-dropped a stone on his ankle and finished the contest with a broken ankle?
Brings back memory:Big Ralph Williams was there(former WSM competitor) and did the voice over/announcing on the tape

[Kevin McNease]

Thanks. Also looking fo results from St Louis Strongman II in 1999.
ET

Here you go, http://www.usaplnationals.com/9_18_99_strongman/918article.html

Kevin

[Jeff King]

What ever happened to Ralph Williams?
-JEFF

[AaRoNSnider]

I dont know if anyone allready said this,but I think there is an old article on it somewhere on samson-power.com(if that site is still around???)

[Eric Todd]

Thanks Kevin. That helps for the St Louis 2 contest. I looked on the Samson Pwer site, and contacted Mark, but that one is not there (everything else of the time is, though).
ET

[Jim Glassman]

SMA 1998 the "other canadian" was Grant mcReynolds(i'm pretty sure)
Also of note was Big Tony Scrivens competed---missed the finals by one placing--he was 11th overall(from points accumulated in day 1)--i hung out quite a bit with Big Tony and i remember he passed out on the Yoke(low blood sugar-?-)
-myself and Brian Neese had to pick him up(well sort of pick him up)-
Tony put on a clinic on the 240lb Log Incline for reps :p

I didn't know you did SMA tha year? Dude how much fun was the famres walk for max distance with the GOSH DARN stairs in the middle of it?!

[Paul F.X. Armstrong]

I didn't know you did SMA tha year? Dude how much fun was the famres walk for max distance with the stairs in the middle of it?!


No i didn't have the pleasure of doing the contest
I was there--Several friends competed and my wife worked both days shuffling paper and helping keep score-

That was a ridiculous farmers though---remember Ahola -?-probably from boredom-walked into the stands and up a flight of real stairs(he was DQ'd on that event for going off course).They didn't show that on the video.
;)

[shane solomon]

i watched the vid with clint darden at christmas.
cool show

[Jeff Bach]

ET,

I was going through my junky office a few months ago and found the original show booklet or what ever you call it. Has a list of most of the guys. I am slammed so can't say when I will get it done but I will try to type out the competitor list and post.

Pretty much everyone from St. Louis was either in it or helping.

Talk to Wayne sometime. He has a much better memory then me and remembers a lot of the placings.

Ahola and Phil where on the only two heavies to get all the stones.

If only Mavromatis (sp?) could have figured out how to make money on the contest he would have "really" gotten things going back then. It was I guess the biggest turning point of the resurgence of strongman in the US.

It was a great time!

[Rick Fowler]

Eric (And anyone else interested in seeing these),
I read above that you were looking for the results to the 98 Strongest Man Alive.

I found it...in the strangest of places. There is a site on the internet called The Wayback Machine. Actually if you Google that, it will produce a link to the site of: http://www.archive.org/ (http://www.archive.org/)

Anyway, I knew of it and figured I'd look for what you needed there. As it turns out I was successful.

This site, is nothing but an online archive for nearly every site, from many years back. It doesn't always have every photo, but it has a LOT of content. In our case, for the website StrongestManAlive.com, which was owned by Chris Mavromatis, it has multiple versions archived, going all the way back to 1998 when Chris had it.

So go to the site, at the search box where it lists http:, enter strongestmanalive.com and hit enter. This is the page it will take you to:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://strongestmanalive.com (http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://strongestmanalive.com)

I selected the very first one (oldest), which was Dec 1, 1998, and it gave me a link to the site from that date.
That link:
http://web.archive.org/web/19981201055655/http://www.strongestmanalive.com/ (http://web.archive.org/web/19981201055655/http://www.strongestmanalive.com/)

The results you are looking for are listed by event and weight class, for the qualifying heats as well as the finals.

Here are the top 10 in each class , as well as every competitor that was in the meet.
Enjoy!

Rick Fowler

<center>Heavyweights <table border="2" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="0"><tbody><tr><td align="center" valign="top" width="40">Placing</td><td align="center" valign="top" width="200">Contestant</td><td align="center" valign="top" width="40">Points</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="top" width="40">1</td><td align="center" valign="top" width="200">Jouko Ahola</td><td align="center" valign="top" width="40">66.5</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="top" width="40">2</td><td align="center" valign="top" width="200">Phillip Pfister</td><td align="center" valign="top" width="40">59</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="top" width="40">3</td><td align="center" valign="top" width="200">Bryan Neese</td><td align="center" valign="top" width="40">52.5</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="top" width="40">4</td><td align="center" valign="top" width="200">Whit Baskin</td><td align="center" valign="top" width="40">50</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="top" width="40">5</td><td align="center" valign="top" width="200">Grant McReynolds</td><td align="center" valign="top" width="40">48.5</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="top" width="40">6</td><td align="center" valign="top" width="200">Ed Brost</td><td align="center" valign="top" width="40">43.5</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="top" width="40">7</td><td align="center" valign="top" width="200">Johan Roeloffse</td><td align="center" valign="top" width="40">33.5</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="top" width="40">8</td><td align="center" valign="top" width="200">Vae Mafuli</td><td align="center" valign="top" width="40">31</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="top" width="40">9</td><td align="center" valign="top" width="200">Jeff Maddy</td><td align="center" valign="top" width="40">22.5</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="top" width="40">10</td><td align="center" valign="top" width="200">Patrick Rankin</td><td align="center" valign="top" width="40">18</td></tr></tbody></table></center>
<center>Middleweights <table border="2" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="0"><tbody><tr><td align="center" valign="top" width="40">Placing</td><td align="center" valign="top" width="200">Contestant</td><td align="center" valign="top" width="40">Points</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="top" width="40">1</td><td align="center" valign="top" width="200">Juja Tuhkasaari</td><td align="center" valign="top" width="40">74</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="top" width="40">2</td><td align="center" valign="top" width="200">Daniel James</td><td align="center" valign="top" width="40">63.5</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="top" width="40">3</td><td align="center" valign="top" width="200">James McGlynn</td><td align="center" valign="top" width="40">61.5</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="top" width="40">4</td><td align="center" valign="top" width="200">Bill Windschief</td><td align="center" valign="top" width="40">57</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="top" width="40">5</td><td align="center" valign="top" width="200">William Wessels</td><td align="center" valign="top" width="40">48</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="top" width="40">6</td><td align="center" valign="top" width="200">Michael Stokes</td><td align="center" valign="top" width="40">44.5</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="top" width="40">7</td><td align="center" valign="top" width="200">Nathan Lasher</td><td align="center" valign="top" width="40">43</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="top" width="40">8</td><td align="center" valign="top" width="200">Mawr Wallace</td><td align="center" valign="top" width="40">42.5</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="top" width="40">9</td><td align="center" valign="top" width="200">Jason Sportsman</td><td align="center" valign="top" width="40">35</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="top" width="40">10</td><td align="center" valign="top" width="200">Jerry Corless</td><td align="center" valign="top" width="40">26</td></tr></tbody></table></center>



<center>Competitors</center>


<center>Heavyweights
Brian Duncan
Dwayne Melton
Anthony Scrivens
Frank Grzesk
Whit Baskin
Michael Gillert
Mark Keshishian
Alexander Klest
Troy McNett
Bryan Neese
Kris Assaley
Jeff Huber
Patrick Rankin
Warren McComas
Eric Cheaple
Timothy Wilson
Doug Ahr
Kevin McAfee
James Pulakis
Fabrice Nahmiash
Steve Goggins
Allen Pyburn
Philip Pfister
Jeff Maddy
Anastasios Kazolis
Michael O'Neill
Gary Mitchell
Sal Puaina
Rob Ploughman
Jeff Jarzynka
Marshall Ennis
Doug Boeset
Ed Brost
Mel Hay
Grant McReynolds
Josh Wasson
Bryan Hildebrand
John James
Randy Davis
James Glassman
Johan Roelloffse
Phil Makdisi
Jouko Ahola
Vae Mafuli

Middleweights
Charlie Vermillio
Kane Kelly
Adam Thatcher
Nathan Lasher
Dennis Magee
Jerry Corless
Dan Wagman
Mathew Burgart
Craig Richards
Greg Blount
Andrew Patrick
Daniel James
James Belch
David Barker
Donovan Rascon
Richard King
Robert Sheldon
Mark Wechter
Neal Crabtree
Butch Shovanec
Roger Gibbs
Scott Hill
Ron Fortin
Jason Sportsman
Brian Strickland
Joseph Routh
Tom Mcaughan
Michael Stokes
James McGlynn
Mike Puckett
Eric Waugh
Brian Chisholm
Mawr Wallace
David Jaworski
Dan Pillitiere
Knut Bjorvatn
Morley Flood
Jonathon Barker
William Wessels
Chris Brock
Michael Moruzzi
Jeff McCreary
Scott Green
Geoffrey Adler
Mark Slivinski
Stacy Green
Mike Segermark
Bill Windschief
Chris Raimondi
Juja Tuhkasaari
</center>

[Rick Fowler]

Here's a little more in the way of interviews from some of the top guys in this contest. Pretty good stuff.

The archived version from Jan. 1999 lists a link to interviews, which can be found here:
http://web.archive.org/web/19990125103547/http://www.strongestmanalive.com/


I remember Chris also had an interesting section that detailed his stones and how they were made (Which I think are actually now at Wayne's), but I can't locate it.

Rick

[Eric Todd]

Thanks guys. Rick-that is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks
ET

[Paul F.X. Armstrong]

--i had forgot about big Johan being in the top 10-
-thanks for all that info Rick-
This show paid out well also--$5000 to the heavyweight winner and ,i believe,$5000 to the middleweight winner-?-

It was Mawr Wallace who dropped a stone on an ankle and finished the contest with a broken ankle--

Jujah Tukhasari(Aholas training partner),won the middleweights,was from another planet

[Dan Harrison]

Heavyweights

Brian Duncan
Dwayne Melton
Anthony Scrivens
Frank Grzesk
Whit Baskin
Michael Gillert
Mark Keshishian
Alexander Klest
Troy McNett
Bryan Neese
Kris Assaley
Jeff Huber
Patrick Rankin
Warren McComas
Eric Cheaple
...
...
...

Mike Gillert trains with us at Odd's. He is awesome at most events. Only real weakness is stones and grip, but his pressing and yoke are incredible.When he gets his head into stonelifting more and learns how to be more explosive, he will be slaughering pros again.

[Eric Todd]

Okay, last ? guys (I think). Does anyone know where to find the results of NASS nationals 2000?
ET

[Jeff Bach]

Heavyweights
...

Mike Gillert trains with us at Odd's. He is awesome at most events. Only real weakness is stones and grip, but his pressing and yoke are incredible.When he gets his head into stonelifting more and learns how to be more explosive, he will be slaughering pros again.

Where has he been the last 8 years? That is quite a break :)

[Jeff Bach]

Okay, last ? guys (I think). Does anyone know where to find the results of NASS nationals 2000?
ET

OK ET what gives? You writing a book or something? You have me real curious now.

Don't Willie and Dione have 2000 NASS Nats stuff? Or you would email Bill Holland of the Anvil.

[Eric Todd]

No, not a book. Just a couple articles. Say, you dont know how to get ahold of Bill, do you? The last email I had for him was not working.
ET

[Dan Harrison]

Where has he been the last 8 years? That is quite a break :)

At home, washing his tights! He's also a lurker here and refuses to sign up because we bring out the filthiest in each other with our remarks and we would both be banned within a few posts.

[Jeff Bach]

No, not a book. Just a couple articles. Say, you dont know how to get ahold of Bill, do you? The last email I had for him was not working.
ET

Would love to read them!

No idea on Bill. I am sure Willie and Dione can help. I think he the Anvil is still registered to him so the much be a way to contact him through there? Or leave a post for him?

Didn't Willie win two NASS Lightweight nats then Nick Osborne won the next two?

[Jeff Bach]

At home, washing his tights! He's also a lurker here and refuses to sign up because we bring out the filthiest in each other with our remarks and we would both be banned within a few posts.

Thats what friends are for right :EB:

[Eric Todd]

Actually I think Dino Nick won the HW class the same years Willie won the LW class. Just wanting to see who else was there and who else placed where.
ET