As a number of people have already said, what a great day! Many thanks to Rob, Shaun, Tracy and the many others who organised the event. Although the change of date and venue forced by problems with insurance resulted in fewer competitors than last year, those who stepped up produced a close fought competition.
With old favourites and some new rounds there were ten challengers competing in six events:
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Overall Andy Fletcher came first for the second year running, but only just, with Tom Slater just being beaten into second place by 2 points. Steve Lynam and Paul Richmond were joint third, but after a draw on the tiebreak arm wrestling, Steve was given 3rd place on the toss of a coin.
The six events were as follows:
Bail Roll: Competing pairs large bails had to be rolled allong the course. with positions scored on times
- 1st Andy Fletcher
- 2nd Tom Slater
- 3rd Steve Lynam
Block Hold: Competitors, again in pairs hold up concrete blocks for as long as they are able.
- 1st Paul Richmond
- 2nd Chris Ward
- 3rd Carl Alsop
Conner’s Wheel: A weighted oil drum is attached to a central pivot by scaffolding poles and individually competitors carry it in circles for as long a distance as possible.
- 1st Carl Alsop
- 2nd Andy Fletcher
- 3rd Andy Storer
Barrel Toss: Competitors through metal barrels of increasing weight over a high bar. Where more than one person achieves the same weight, the positions are then decided on time.
- 1st Tom Slater
- 2nd Chris Ward
- 3rd Andy Fletcher
Pillar’s of Hercules: Two tree trunks have to be held up by ropes, one on each side. This is scored on length of time the trunks are held up.
- 1st Tom Slater
- 2nd Steve Lynam
- 3rd Andy Fletcher
Atlas’ Wheels: Tyres/wheels of increasing weight are lifted onto oil drums. Where competitors draw on the weights acheived, they are again differentiated by speed.
- 1st Andy Fletch
- 2nd Tom Slater
- 3rd Andy Storer
In addition to the main event there were a children’s and an adult’s tyre throwing competition.
The money raised by the event is to be donated to Parwich Primary School.
Live music was provided by our own The A52s; the Bar was laid on by Parwich British Legion Club; the Bar-B-Que was staffed by Jackie & Paul; Face Painting by Lucy Burlinson; and the Cakes Stall by Cathy Hazelwood.
The main sponsors of the event were Wigley Haulage, Ashbourne Aerials & TV Services, Ashbourne Romovals, ABC Groundworks, Hair by Lee & Co, Hambleton Stone Sales Ltd, Ashbourne Secretarial & Printing Services, Marshall Builders, Rob Keeling Plumbing and So Green Lawn Care, however a large number of other local businesses contributed prizes for the raffle.
Video of the afternoon.
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On behalf of Parwich Primary School, thank you to everyone involved in the Parwich Strongest Man Compeition, the event was a thoroughly enjoyable and entertaining afternoon.
Your extremely kind and much appreciated donation to school will support the development of the Celebration Garden.
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You got Nathan Hazelwood’s score wrong, it should be 15 not 13, he came 9th…
Jessica, if you look Nathan did come joint 9th with Andy. It is just a minor error on admin side, he didn’t lose out in anyway; But thankyou for pointing out the mistake!
Just to say a quick thankyou to everyone for yesterday, I will be putting something on the blog in a day or so about the day’s events. Thanks Peter for having it covered!!
Sorry Nathan about the error in your score, the typo was mine, and hopefully has now been corrected.