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Britain's Most Powerful Man 2008 Qualifier : 29 June The qualifier for Britain's Most Powerful Man took place at the Ministry of Muscle Gym today and this much anticipated competition lived up to expectations with 14 of the country's finest fighting for the top 8 places to join Jay Hughes and Jimmy Marku in the Final being held on 2 November. The whole event was recorded and professionally produced and we have DVDs on sale for £16.99 - contact us at the Gym for details. The 14 athletes who competed in the qualifying events were: Mick Holding Oli Thompson Laurence Shahlaei Paul Carter Wayne Tunstall Laurence Browne Richard Hudson Adam Townsend Scott Heaton Dave Waters Kelvin Gardener Rob Frampton Martin Jones Ali Modaresi
The events of the day were: - 95kg Farmers Walk over 50m
- 120kg Log Press full reps in 90 seconds
- 165kg Anvil Walk for distance
- 280kg Deadlift - reps in 60 seconds
- Atlas Stones 110kg, 130kg, 140kg, 150kg, 160kg 1 metre from platform
And here's how they all got on: | 95kg Farmers | 120kg Log Press | Anvil Walk | 1st | Laurence Shahlaei 18.56m | Mick Holding 12 | Laurence Shahlaei 91.88m | 2nd | Mick Holding 20.34m | Oli Thompson 10 | Wayne Tunstall 89.90m | 3rd | Wayne Tunstall 20.64m | Martin Jones 8 | Mick Holding 65.40m | 4th | Rob Frampton 20.72m | Scott Heaton 8 (= 3rd) | Oli Thompson 56.88m | 5th | Richard Hudson 21.43m | Adam Townsend 8 (= 3rd) | Kelvin Gardener 56.30m | 6th | Kelvin Gardener 21.95m | Ali Modaresi 7 | Adam Townsend 53.12m | 7th | Scott Heaton 22.09m | Rob Frampton 7 (= 6th) | Martin Jones 52.10m | 8th | Paul Carter 22.25m | Paul Carter 7 (= 6th) | Scott Heaton 50.00m | 9th | Adam Townsend 22.44m | Laurence Shahlaei 7 (= 6th) | Rob Frampton 50.00m (= 8th) | 10th | Oli Thompson 22.82m | Wayne Tunstall 6 | Paul Carter 50.00m (= 8th) | 11th | Martin Jones 23.57m | Richard Hudson 3 | Ali Modaresi 44.70m | 12th | Ali Modaresi 23.61m | Kelvin Gardener 2 | Richard Hudson 37.50m | 13th | Laurence Browne 24.22m | Laurence Browne 2 (= 12th) | Laurence Browne 25.00m | 14th | Dave Waters injured | -- | -- |
| 280kg Deadlift | Atlas Stones | 1st | Laurence Shahlaei 11 | Wayne Tunstall 5 stones in 34.27 | 2nd | Mick Holding 10 | Rob Frampton 5 stones in 42.11 | 3rd | Paul Carter 7 | Mick Holding 5 stones in 44.89 | 4th | Martin Jones 7 (= 3rd) | Laurence Shahlaei 5 stones in 48.13 | 5th | Scott Heaton 6 | Adam Townsend 5 stones in 1.05.11 | 6th | Adam Townsend 6 (= 5th) | Oli Thompson 5 stones in 1.19.32 | 7th | Rob Frampton 6 (= 5th) | Martin Jones 4 stones in 21.89 | 8th | Ali Modaresi 4 | Paul Carter 4 stones in 31.64 | 9th | Richard Hudson 4 (= 8th) | Richard Hudson 4 stones in 32.82 | 10th | Kelvin Gardener 3 | Scott Heaton 4 stones in 35.49 | 11th | Wayne Tunstall 3 (= 10th) | Kelvin Gardener 3 stones in 22.86 | 12th | Oli Thompson 2 | Laurence Browne 3 stones in 55.54 | 13th | Laurence Browne 0 | Ali Modaresi 2 stones in 19.80 |
Final Positions | 1st | Mick Holding | 64 points | | 2nd | Laurence Shahlaei | 60.5 points | | 3rd | Wayne Tunstall | 48.5 points | | 4th | Rob Frampton | 47.5 points | | 5th | Adam Townsend | 45 points | | 6th | Oli Thompson | 41 points | 7th = | Scott Heaton Paul Carter | 40 points | | 9th | Martin Jones | 39.5 points | | 10th | Kelvin Gardener | 30 points | | 11th | Richard Hudson | 29.5 points | | 12th | Ali Modaresi | 23 points | | 13th | Laurence Browne | 9.5 points | | 14th | Dave Waters | injured |
A big well done to Mick Holding on winning this competition, an achievement made even sweeter as this was his first competition this year after having surgery a couple of months ago; Laurence Shahlaei came second with a very confident performance; Wayne Tunstall in third who is improving every time I see him, especially on the Stones; Rob Frampton - a comfortable performance by the big man; Adam Townsend - always there; Oli Thompson with a man-of-the-match performance with busted ribs and torn biceps and still coming in sixth - how he put those last 3 Stones up was truly amazing - respect to you Mr T; Scott Heaton and Paul Carter came joint seventh with good performances. These are the 8 athletes who have qualified to what will no doubt be a cracking Final. Well done to all my friends who competed; on a special note I would like to wish a speedy recovery to Big Dave Waters who injured his knee in the first event of the day. And, of course, a massive thank you goes out to Steve and Gina for once again putting on a very slick and successful show, and we look forward to the Final of BMPM 2008 which is being held on Sunday 2 November. Reporting by Rob Hughes |
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