Europe's Strongest Man!

Big Loz just practicing for carrying the groceries in!

Oh look at you! Big strong man! Strongest man in Europe? Oh you mean The Mountain???

WRONG!

Ha ha! Europe's Strongest Man came and went and while Eddie Hall's amazing world record deadlift stole the show, the real winner of the weekend was Laurence Shahlaei who came in spectacular fashion to win the contest and set a new record in the Car Carry. Laurence, or Big Loz, as he's known, is a hell of an athlete with quite a story.

Just a few years ago he was sidelined with a host of injuries that took him out of the World's Strongest Man. He was seen famously laying on the doctor's table with ice packs on both torn biceps saying, "I think it's over for real now." Only to come back from that and tear his quad, in the process losing lots of size and sponsorships. Loz maintains a crazy positive attitude and through all of it he kept posting encouraging messages on social media and cheering on other athletes.

Most people had written him off, and with The Mountain AKA Hafthor Bjornsson being the poster boy for the sport right now, no one expected the much smaller, significantly less famous and injury-riddled Loz to win, but he did. Goes to show that sometimes in strongman, heart is the most important muscle, and no one has a bigger one than Europe's Strongest Man!

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