The 2024 World Log Lift Championships (WLLC) occurred as the first 2024 Giants Live World Tour Open (WTO) event in Birmingham, England, on Sept. 7, 2024. Cheick “Iron Biby” Sanou, representing Burkina Faso, competed as a special guest in the 2024 WLLC as the reigning world record holder at 230 kilograms.
Although Sanou was not scheduled to compete in the rest of the 2024 WTO, he scored the first event win by extending the log lift world record to 231 kilograms.
2024 World Log Lift Championships Results
- Cheick “Iron Biby” Sanou (BUR) — 231 kilograms — New World Record
- Ondřej Fojtů (CZE) — 210 kilograms
- Mitchell Hooper (CAN) — 210 kilograms
- Maxime Boudreault (CAN) — 185 kilograms
- Thomas Evans (USA) — 185 kilograms
- Nathan Goltry (USA) — 185 kilograms
- Oleksii Novikov (UKR) — 185 kilograms
- Luke Richardson (UK) — 185 kilograms
- Gavin Bilton (UK) — 170 kilograms
- Kevin Faires (USA) — 170 kilograms
- Evan Singleton (USA) — 170 kilograms
- Paddy Haynes (UK) — no lift
- Aivars Šmaukstelis (LAT) — no lift
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Iron Biby has been in a challenge against himself to further the log lift world record ever since claiming it from four-time World’s Strongest Man (WSM) Zydrunas Savickas with his 229-kilogram lift at the 2021 Giants Live World Tour Finals.
Two years later, Iron Biby tacked on another kilogram, bringing the world record log lift to 230 kilograms. That same year, he displayed in training that he has the strength to lift more than the current world record when he lifted 233.5 kilograms overhead — 2.5 kilograms more than what he just celebrated in Birmingham.
So while Iron Biby’s achievement is worth the trophy and spectacle he received at the 2024 World Log Lift Championships, his training suggests that he’s far from done changing the log lift record.
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