Day Two of the 2025 World’s Strongest Man (WSM) contest in Sacramento, CA, got underway with the Titan’s Toss.
This time, the annual toss event featured 10 sandbags to be tossed over a 3.65-meter (12-foot) bar in the fastest time possible. The weight of all 10 sandbags was 14 kilograms (30 pounds). Though the weight didn’t change, the distance to toss each did:
- Seven meters — Two bags
- Eight meters — Two bags
- Nine meters — Two bags
- 10 meters — Two bags
- 11 meters — One bag
- 12 meters — One bag
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Athletes were only allotted a single toss attempt for each bag. If a bag caught or got snagged atop the bar rather than going over entirely, it was still deemed a good lift.
Wesley Derwinsky, Mitchell Hooper, and Tom Stoltman set world records in the 2024 WSM Keg Toss event. Derwinski and Hooper are in Group Two, and a massive battle for the event win was expected.
Stoltman held the lead in Group One at the end of Day One, and the toss favored him tremendously. However, the 2024 record was for height, not speed, so anything was possible in the hot Sacramento heat.
Stoltman and Maxime Boudreault were the only two strongmen to successfully toss all 10 bags.
2025 World’s Strongest Man Titan’s Toss Results
Group One
- Tom Stoltman (UK) — 10 in 31.97 seconds
- Eddie Williams (AUS) — Eight in 35.66 seconds
- Jaco Schoonwinkel (RSA) — Seven 25.03 seconds
- Thomas Evans (USA) — Seven in 29.06
- Austin Andrade (MEX) — Seven in 31.28 seconds
Group Two
- Wesley Derwinsky (CAN) — Nine in 27.88 seconds
- Mathew Ragg (NZL) — Nine in 32.22 seconds
- Mitchell Hooper (CAN) — Eight in 27.97 seconds
- Paddy Haynes (UK) — Six in 18.72 seconds
- Bryce Johnson (USA) — Four in 14.75 seconds
Group Three
- Shane Flowers (UK) — Eight in 23.38 seconds
- Rayno Nel (RSA) — Eight in 29.41 seconds
- Lucas Hatton (USA) — Eight in 44.06 seconds
- Mateusz Kieliszkowski (POL) — Seven in 31.97 seconds
- Evans Nana (GHA) — Six in 23.66 seconds
Group Four
- Maxime Boudreault (CAN) — 10 in 46.91 seconds
- Tristain Hoath (CAN) — Seven in 29.75 seconds
- Trey Mitchell (USA) — Six in 27.22 seconds
- Ondrej Fojtů (CZE) — Three in 11.41 seconds
- Luke Richardson (UK) — withdrew
Group Five
- Luke Stoltman (UK) — Nine in 34.81 seconds
- Nick Guardione (USA) — Eight in 28.38 seconds
- Andrew Flynn (UK) — Six in 20.16 seconds
- Pavlo Kordiyaka (UKR) — Four in 12.81 seconds
- Evan Singleton (USA) — withdrew
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2025 World’s Strongest Man Titan’s Toss Recap
Group Four
Boudreault and Hoath kicked off the morning’s event. Both had an easy time until Hoath missed his eighth toss. Boudreault was perfect throughout, but slightly slower than Hoath.
Mitchell and Fojtu stepped into the arena next. Fojtu had the faster cycle speed, but both struggled with the height of the bar and weren’t close to Boudreault’s 10-for-10 run.
Group Five
Guardione and Flynn were paired in heat one. Flynn fell out halfway through while Guardione scored all but one until the final bag, when he overskipped his start. It was not considered an attempt, though, so when he finally got it in the air, it didn’t have the same oomph as his previous tosses.
Kordiyaka and Luke Stoltman entered knowing Guardione’s time to beat. The Ukrainian was faster but didn’t have the toss height necessary to go deep. Stoltman missed his final toss but otherwise seemed in his element in his 10th WSM appearance — the most WSM-experienced competitor on the 2025 roster.
Group Two
Ragg ran the solo heat. Production introduced him each day as a McDonald’s graveyard shift manager who trained for WSM during the day. He ranked fourth at the 2024 WSM.
Ragg was steady-handed with high tosses. He was perfect through nine bags. He roared and rolled into the final toss but couldn’t get it high enough to convert.
It was tricky to see Boudreault clear all 10 bags in the initial heat of the day, since it has only proved afterward how much of a feat that actually was. WSM promoter Colin Bryce called Boudreault the best bag tosser on the planet.
Haynes and Derwinsky ran second in Group Two. Haynes tossed with a more vertical structure, costing him early on. He continued tossing for the crowd. Derwinsky back rolled through his final toss that didn’t go over the bar.
Johnson, a WSM debutant, ran his heat with Hooper. Hooper tossed more vertically, which cost him a pair of bags. He checked with the judge afterward and did not seem too disappointed. Johnson did not fully have the technique locked in for the far tosses and couldn’t convert.
Group Three
Kieliszkowski ran the solo heat. It was ceremonial as he was effectively eliminated with a six-point deficit with only two events before the Final. Still, he made the most of his run, clearly seven bags.
It was announced for the first time earlier this week that Kieliszkowski was recovering from “a virus” and was not competing at 100%.
Flowers and Nana took the stage, separated on the leaderboard by a half-point. Nana took his time out of the gate, allowing Flowers to get ahead by a whole bag.
After six tosses, Nana didn’t have the combination of technique and explosiveness to convert any more. Flowers were similar, but two bags went further along.
Hatton and Nel ran the last heat. Nel held a commanding lead in the group. Hatton was tied with Flowers entering the event, and knew nine bags would give him some cushion against Flowers heading into the Stone Medley.
Nel had a much faster cycle speed but was the first to miss a bag. Hatton was chipping through eight bags and laughed off the stage after missing his ninth.
Group One
Williams ran the solo heat after finishing last in the Overhead Medley on Day One. He tossed well, well above the bar height, through six bags and slowed down by the seventh. He didn’t miss until the ninth, nor did he convert the tenth, when he fell and funnily break-danced his way to his feet.
Andrade and Schoonwinkel were paired for heat two. The latter moved with urgency and better balance than the former, but both hit snags late and couldn’t outdo Williams.
Evans and Tom Stoltman ran the event’s final heat. Stoltman had a five-point lead entering the event and was an effective lock for the WSM Final, but he still went all out in the event, given the new contest structure of scoring the Finalists against each other based on their Group Stage performance.
Stoltman threw the bags twice as high as he needed to, except for the final bag, which bounced off the apparatus to the other side. After a 10-bag finish, Stoltman was hyped, tore his shirt off to a roaring crowd, and counted to the number four on his fingers, calling the shot that he would defend his WSM title.
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One Event Left In Qualifying
The remaining event for the Qualifying Stage is the Stone Medley set for 2 p.m. PST. Tom Stoltman, Mitchell Hooper, and Rayno Nel are the only athletes locked for the WSM Final.
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