The 2023 World’s Strongest Man (WSM) contest is scheduled for April 19-23, 2023, in Myrtle Beach, SC. On Jan. 26, 2023, WSM announced the 12 events that will be featured at the 2023 contest. Six events will be held in the Qualifying stage, and the remaining six will comprise the Final.
2023 World’s Strongest Man Events
Below are the events and the days of the competition they will be held on:
Qualifying Stage
- Event One | Loading Race — Day One
- Event Two | Deadlift Machine — Day One
- Event Three | Log Ladder — Day One
- Event Four | Conan’s Wheel — Day Two
- Event Five | Kettlebell Toss — Day Two
- Stone Off — Day Two
WSM Final
- Event One | Fingal’s Fingers — Day Three
- Event Two | Deadlift — Day Three
- Event Three | Shield Carry — Day Three
- Event Four | Max Dumbbell — Day Four
- Event Five | Vehicle Pull — Day Four
- Event Six | Atlas Stones — Day Four
The 2023 WSM contest was initially set to begin on April 18, 2023, but it was announced on Jan. 26 that it would start one day later.
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Pushing the start of the competition back by a day is a significant change. In 2022, athletes were given a rest day between the Qualifying stage and the Final. Without a rest day, fatigue could be a determining factor in the latter events of the competition.
Presumably, the structure of the Stone Off will remain the same as in 2022, where the second and third-place finishers in each Group will square up in a head-to-head match. If that is how the competition is structured, then the winners of each Group will have a meaningful advantage heading into the Final as they will not have to exert themselves in the Stone Off.
The 2023 contest marks the end of an era in the sport, as it will be four-time WSM champion Brian Shaw’s last WSM contest. If he can reclaim the crown from two-time reigning WSM champion Tom Stoltman, Shaw would become the second strongman in the sport’s history to win five WSM contests — a feat only Mariusz Pudzianowski of Poland has accomplished.
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