2023 Giants Dwell Strongman Traditional Lineup Revealed

There isn’t any scarcity of worthy contenders for the 2023 GLSC title. Six World’s Strongest Man (WSM) finalists and three WSM champions are littered all around the lineup. Figuring out this reality, even with out a confirmed occasions checklist or schedule on the time of this writing, it is likely to be simple to determine who needs to be favored to excel on the London competitors.

The most important identify to look at is likely to be Mitchell Hooper, who simply gained the 2023 WSM for his first victory at strongman’s flagship competitors. The Canadian athlete is scorching sizzling performance-wise. His WSM victory included, Hooper has gained 5 of his final six contests whereas qualifying for the rostrum in 9 straight competitions.

Then there’s Tom Stoltman, who completed because the runner-up within the 2023 WSM after a standing as the previous reigning two-time WSM champion (2021-2022). In keeping with Strongman Archives, Stoltman has featured in simply two strongman contests over the previous approximate calendar yr, with the opposite being a sixth-place outcome on the 2023 Arnold Strongman Classic (ASC).

Lastly, because the final competitor with a WSM title on their resume, the athlete who ought to most likely be a large favourite primarily based on his rap sheet is Novikov. Apart from his standing because the only-ever winner of the GLSC, Novikov has solely missed the rostrum on two events out of 20 competitions relationship again to his WSM championship in November 2020. Novikov is most not too long ago coming off a runner-up end within the 2023 Europe’s Strongest Man (ESM) and a third-place outcome on the 2023 WSM.