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1998 World's Strongest Man

Strongman competition in 1998

Field	Value
competition_name	1998 World's Strongest Man
dates	8-18 October 1998
location	Tangier
country	MAR
athletes participating	40
nations participating	23
winner	Sweden Magnus Samuelsson
prev	Primm Valley Resort 1997
next	Malta 1999

The 1998 World's Strongest Man was the 21st edition of World's Strongest Man and was won by Magnus Samuelsson from Sweden. It was his first title after finishing third the previous year. 1997 champion Jouko Ahola from Finland finished second, and Wout Zijlstra from the Netherlands finished third. This year had 10 qualifying heats with the winner of each heat going on to the finals. Half the field were injured during the finals of the contest, as well as several heat winners prior to the finals such as Flemming Rasmussen and Gerrit Badenhorst. The contest was held in Tangier/Tétouan, Morocco.

Heats

Group 1

Position	Name	Nationality	Points
1.	Riku Kiri	FIN	14.5
2.	Torben Sorrenson	DNK	11
3.	Jaromir Nemec	CZE	8
4.	Ralph Williams	USA	4.5 (injured)

Group 2

Position	Name	Nationality	Points
1.	Flemming Rasmussen	DNK	14 (injured)
2.	Russ Bradley	ENG	10
2.	Martin Muhr	DEU	10
4.	Ginaud Dupuis	CAN	6

Group 3

Position	Name	Nationality	Points
1.	Pieter de Bruyn	SAF	13
2.	Heinz Ollesch	GER	13
3.	Glenn Ross	NIR	9
4.	Terry Brennan	USA	5

Group 4

Position	Name	Nationality	Points
1.	Wout Zijlstra	NLD	14
2.	Derek Boyer	FJI	12
3.	Kurt Kvikkstad	NOR	7
3.	Fraser Tranter	ENG	7

Group 5

Position	Name	Nationality	Points
1.	Gerrit Badenhorst	SAF	14 (injured)
2.	Lee Bowers	ENG	10.5
3.	Ralf Ber	AUT	10.5
4.	Gustavo Pujadas	ESP	5

Group 6

Position	Name	Nationality	Points
1.	Magnus Samuelsson	SWE	15
2.	Jamie Barr	SCO	10.5
3.	Wayne Price	ZAF	10
4.	Michael Abdullah	JPN	4.5

Group 7

Position	Name	Nationality	Points
1.	Berend Veneberg	NLD	13
2.	László Fekete	HUN	11
3.	Žydrūnas Savickas	LTU	9
4.	Ken Brown	USA	7

Group 8

Position	Name	Nationality	Points
1.	Torfi Ólafsson	ISL	13
2.	Janne Virtanen	FIN	13
3.	Phil Pfister	USA	10
4.	Alexander Matveev	RUS	0 (injured)

Group 9

Position	Name	Nationality	Points
1.	Mark Philippi	USA	16
2.	Evgeny Popov	BGR	11
3.	Bill Lyndon	AUS	9
4.	Vladimir Turchinsky	RUS	4

Group 10

Position	Name	Nationality	Points
1.	Jouko Ahola	FIN	15
2.	Hugo Girard	CAN	12
3.	Stuart Murray	SCO	7
4.	Gunnar Thor	ISL	6

Final results

#	Name	Nationality	Pts
1	Magnus Samuelsson	SWE Sweden	73
2	Jouko Ahola	FIN Finland	67
3	Wout Zijlstra	NED Netherlands	62
4	Phil Pfister	USA United States	51
5	Pieter de Bruyn	RSA South Africa	46
6	Riku Kiri	FIN Finland	26 (injured)
7	Torfi Olafsson	ISL Iceland	19 (injured)
8	Mark Philippi	USA United States	18 (injured)
9	Berend Veneberg	NED Netherlands	9 (injured)
10	Hugo Girard	CAN Canada	5 (injured)

References

"theworldsstrongestman.com".

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