Dixson’s standout performance almost eclipsed the World Record holder.
Amidst an intriguing team competition just like the 2022 Giants Live World’s Strongest Nation (WSN), there normally is perhaps a standout performer who shines and takes their strength to the subsequent level. Though predicting who would thrive between Team USA (led by Martins Licis, who replaced Robert Oberst for undisclosed reasons) and Team UK (led by Eddie Hall) can be unimaginable before the motion began. On Nov. 26, 2022, in Liverpool, England, the standout happened to be Team USA’s Gabi Dixson.
In the course of the Hercules Hold portion of the competition — where the competitors must utilize their grip strength to carry massive pillars of their hands for so long as possible — Dixson managed to carry her pillars for 1:08:61. (Note: Each teams were scored by their respective athletes’ collective time.) By the top of the competition, Dixson’s time was the second-longest of any of the participating strongmen and strongwomen, bested only by Team UK’s Mark Felix’s time of 1:28:35.
Felix has earned a fame within the strength sport community in relation to grip-strength events, winning the Hercules hold in nearly every appearance and having set the World Record for the event with 1:32 on the 2020 Europe’s Strongest Man (ESM).
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In a post on her Instagram, Dixson appeared to beam with pride at just having the chance to once more meet a strongperson competitor like Felix. The 2 apparently had crossed paths before throughout the 2021 Official Strongman Games (OSG). Dixson recalled a humorous story about her hand size in comparison with Felix and his famous grip strength.
“I remember last yr at [the 2021 Official Strongman Games] once I met [Mark Felix],” Dixson began, “I knew about his rep because the ‘grip G.O.A.T’ [greatest of all time] and was curious how my hand size would measure up as compared (I even have at all times had big hands for a lady and may palm a men’s basketball). So I ran over to him, briefly introduced myself, and asked him to place his hands as much as mine. He very politely obliged, and, in fact, his hands were larger. Duh. The poor fella will need to have thought I used to be insane on the time!”
Roughly a yr later, it doesn’t appear Dixson lost the importance of a performance which put her name in the identical conversation as an apparent role model.
“Who would have thought that just over a yr later, we’d go No. 1. and No. 2 on the [2022 WSN] stage amongst a few of the very best of our peers?!” Dixson wrote. “Life is crazy, y’all, and I’m endlessly grateful for the chums I made on this trip and for Mark [Felix] being so kind a few random no-name coming as much as him last yr.”
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As for the team results, Team UK captured the general title. That said, Dixson’s individual display of grip prowess wasn’t lost within the shuffle. Removed from it. It was an elite athlete showing she’s on par with someone she appeared to look as much as.
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