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because it is a rare sight to see someone restart pulling the vehicle for a second time once it has stopped. The biggest and heaviest strongmen are usually the people who excel in this event because the heavier the strongman is, the easier is it for them to lean against the weight of the vehicle and
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and other similar competitions which requires competitors to pull extremely heavy trucks, buses, trains or planes while being attached to a harness that is connected to the vehicle. The heavier the vehicle is, a rope is provided for them to pull on. The person who completes the course in the fastest
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began hitching their field tractors to weighted sleds and roared down a track to see who could pull it the farthest, which gathered a lot of spectators. After the tractor pull was a successful spectators event for many years, there was also an event started called the truck pull which became even
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Vehicle pulls are a true test of brute strength and endurance which literally causes the heart rate to hit its maximum within just a few seconds. The start is the hardest as it persuades an extremely heavy vehicle (most often between 10 - 25 tonnes, and up to 40 tonnes) to start moving from a
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Below depicts the 10 greatest
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16:Vehicle pulls done in Strongman competitions
460:1.99 m (6'6.5"), 195 kg (430 lb)
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670:"Contests Featuring a Vehicle Pull Event"
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244:2.05 m (6'9"), 205 kg (452 lb)
775:"Most Successful Athletes: Vehicle Pull"
754:"Most Successful Athletes: Vehicle Pull"
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56:In Strongman competitions
228:Hafþór JĂşlĂus Björnsson
189:Hafþór JĂşlĂus Björnsson
41:Bowling Green, Missouri
802:Strongmen competitions
66:Europe’s Strongest Man
552:Krzysztof Radzikowski
480:Mateusz Kieliszkowski
187:undertook, Iceland's
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62:World’s Strongest Man
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589:References
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193:Strongman
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796:Category
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175:momentum
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240:Iceland
213:Events
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146:Ukraine
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