Sport / Nisbet nabs silver at world’s strongest man competition
A GULBERWICK man has been named the world’s second strongest at under-70kg level after an event in Nuneaton last weekend.
Cameron Nisbet, 23, was crowned UK’s strongest man at the new under-70kg category at an inaugural event in Atherstone in April.
He headed to England last weekend for the first ever under-70kg world’s strongest man competition bidding to take the global title.
This was made up of six different events, which tested different aspects of the 24 competitors’ strength.
The first of these events was a log clean and press, where athletes had to lift a metal replica of a wooden log and bring it from the ground to over their head as many times as possible within a minute.
Nisbet, who was feeling the nerves of the first event, got off to a rocky start – managing one repetition before losing balance on the second and dropping the log backwards.
He then had to chase it across the hall, wasting too much time to reattempt.
But one rep on the heavier 92.5kg weight was still good enough to have a joint fifth place finish on this event.
The second event was a deadlift for maximum weight in 20kg jumps, lifting a bar from the floor to hip height while stood upright.
This was a better event for Nisbet, who managed the starting weight of 180kg, 200kg, 220kg, and 240kg comfortably.
The 260kg lift was more of a challenge, with fewer competitors left at this point making rest periods much shorter.
Nisbet’s 280kg attempt was fairly close, but having too little rest from the 260kg meant it was not to be.
With only two competitors managing 280kg, and being one of three to do 260kg, this was still good enough for a joint third place finish for Nisbet.
Sitting in third place overall at this point meant the podium chances were starting to look achievable going in to the third event.
This event was a medley of picking up and carrying a 100kg sandbag down a 12m course and then bringing back a pair of 100kg farmer’s handles in the quickest time.
A very rapid time of 15.05 seconds secured Nisbet first place on this event and joint second in the overall scores.
The fourth event of the day was a 220kg yoke carry for max distance in 60 seconds.
With the weight of the yoke on his back, Nisbet managed five lengths of the 12m course within the time limit to place third.
Things were looking promising going into the penultimate event – an arm over arm rope pull over a 15m course with a 250kg sled attached.
Still in second place overall by a single point, a 25.28s finish here was only good enough for ninth place.
With Nisbet now slipping to fourth place overall, and with only two points separating second through fourth, the stakes were now even higher as the final event kicked off.
This was aptly named “sandbag hell”, for which a series of 90kg, 100kg, and 110kg sandbags had to be carried and loaded over a four foot bar.
If that was not enough, the final bag had to be repeatedly loaded over the bar within the remainder of the 75-second time limit.
A determined push on this last event saw Nisbet complete six reps with the 110kg sandbag, winning the event with three more reps than any other competitor.
This final big push moved Nisbet up the table to a second place finish overall, securing silver for Scotland and Shetland.
He thanked Shetland Weight Training Club for helping to sponsor his travel south.
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