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Last weekend Simon Boudreau scored a victory to remember on his debut in Strongman Champions League. Despite the continuous rain in Day 2, Boudreau revealed excellent physical form and finished the competition with overall result of 57 points. The Canadian titan gave a remarkable performance in the discipline "Hercules hold" with accomplishment of one minute (the second best result in the ranking being 40 seconds). Boudreau was constantly cheered by the public in Vaasa which played a huge part in his success. He communicated with the local people throughout the whole competition and this positive attitude helped him made new friends that boosted his motivation even further. Sean "The Giant" O'Hagan from Ireland ,who earned a place in the top 10, also received a lot of praise from the Finnish fans. All the participants in SCL Finland fought till the end, turning this edition of the series into a thrilling spectacle, where just one point was enough to decide your fate. ...

With overall result of 61,5 points American Eric Dawson won the latest round of Strongman Champion Series in England. This is his second victory for the season and it looks like the big boy form Hubertus, Wisconsin is about to become the sensation of SCL 2016. Dawson took the leadership early in the competition after he finished first in two very tough disciplines - "Hercules hold with cars" and "Stone of steel lift". As a reward for his hearty game, Eric set a new world record in "Stone of steel lift" alongside with his fellow Bulgarian athlete Stoyan Todorchev. Needless to say, the local public was filled with awe when they witnessed how the two Strongmen overpowered the immensive challenge of 183 kg....

For the first time in history of sports, Bulgarian athlete triumphed in round of Strongman Champions Series. On July 24th Stoyan Todorchev achieved a prestigious victory on home soil in Plovdiv, where he managed to set three new world records. On his way to the gold medal Stoyan overcome the opposition of Matjaž Belšak from Slovenia – the current leader in the ranking for 2016 and Dainis Zageris (Latvia), who was the runner from 2015.

On July 2nd, SCL train stopped in Zlatibor, deep in the mountains of Serbia, for stage 6 of the Strongman Champions League (SCL). "The crowd was really great there, enthusiastic until the very end, and the Latvian strongman Aivars Smaukstelis took the title - proving again again that he is very strong, as he just finished in the deadlift 350 kg for reps, with 8 reps, which was just 2 less than Martin (aka The Deadlift Kid) Wildauer," said for IronMind, SCL director Marcel Mostert....