The rematch between two World’s Strongest Man winners is on.
The 2023 World’s Strongest Nation (WSN) contest is about to happen on Nov. 18, 2023 in Liverpool, England. It should be the second edition of this unique contest that features each strongmen and strongwomen competing on behalf of their countries.
On May 12, 2023, Giants Live announced the captains for Team UK and Team USA, they usually are the identical captains because the 2022 contest — 2017 World’s Strongest Man (WSM) winner Eddie Hall will lead Team UK and the 2019 WSM champion Martins Licis shall be at the pinnacle of Team USA.
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On the time of this text’s publication, neither Hall nor Licis made any statements or shared their thoughts in regards to the announcement. It should be the second time that Hall and Licis face off as captains for his or her respective nations.
Licis was a substitute captain after Robert Oberst bowed out for undisclosed reasons. Neither man has competed in strongman for the reason that first matchup within the inaugural World’s Strongest Nation event, which was held on Nov. 26, 2022 in Liverpool. The UK team won that contest, but Hall suffered a torn teres minor when competing within the Viking Press.
One among the essential highlights of that show got here from neither of the WSM champions. Gabi Dixson of Team USA dominated the Hercules Hold event by holding on to the pillars for a time of 1 minute, 8.61 seconds, which was the longest of any woman and only behind Team UK’s Mark Felix, who managed to keep up his grip for nearly 20 more seconds.
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Hall’s and Licis’ teammates — 4 men and 4 women on each team — haven’t been announced as of this writing, but their very own accolades make this contest a must-see. Hall was the primary man to deadlift 500 kilograms (1,102 kilos) in 2016, and he followed that up by winning the 2017 WSM title.
After winning the 2018 Britain’s Strongest Man contest, he retired from competition. His appearance within the World’s Strongest Nation was his first sanctioned strongman event since. He stayed involved with the game in a media-based role, somewhat than directly competing, in addition to being certainly one of the celebrities of the History Channel’s series, Strongest Men in History.
Licis made certainly one of his earliest big impacts on the game when he won the 2019 Arnold Strongman USA contest, and he finished second within the Arnold Strongman Classic to Hafthor Björnsson. That very same yr, he won the WSM title. After taking on a yr off to get better from injuries, he won the 2021 Rogue Invitational Strongman contest, and he claimed the 2022 Arnold Strongman Classic six months later. Licis finished because the runner-up in that yr’s WSM to Tom Stoltman.
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