Scotland’s famous 732-pound Dinnie Stones are so heavy, most strongmen can’t lift them. A 29-year-old Australian has become the first woman in almost 40 years to do so. Leigh Holland-Keen, who works ...

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The Dinnie Stones event came first, and Odd Haugen, Mark Felix, Bill Crawford and Stevie Shanks—who are all older than 50—attempted to lift and hold the 321- and 413-pound stones for as long as ...

Long before the likes of strongmen Brian Shaw and the Stoltman brothers, there were figures like Donald Dinnie and Arthur Saxon, who were lifting extraordinarily large weights in the first strongman ...

A Forest Hall man is taking on an astounding strongman challenge inspired by his uncle's experience with Parkinson's Disease. Chris Lovegrove, 39, is heading to Aberdeenshire in Scotland in October to ...

Apr. 15—While their neighbors were attending church services or hiking the Sandias, about 20 people, male and female, ages 14 to 74, busted their guts Sunday morning, pressing barbell plates above ...

Like his father before him, Donald was a stone mason, and devoted all his spare time training and competing at Highland Games. In 1870 he competed at the inaugural Powderhall Meeting, and around this ...

In the year 1860 a young titan named Donald Dinnie performed a feat of strength that was to become his lasting legacy when he carried two massive boulders across the width of the Potarch Bridge near ...