Scotland's Strongest Man Qualifier 2004

It wasn't the nicest day, gales and snow drifts up in the north, but just cold down in Glenrothes. The fifers were too tight to heat their gym so we all shivered our way through the event. Everyone was ready and raring to go, and as 12 o'clock came round there was still no sign of the judge. Forbes was taking his time with his breakfast. 12.10, and Forbes turns up resplendent in a a black sheepskin, looking very like a "Eastend" car sales man. Sorry no pictures, I forgot to take my camera, if anyone has some digital pictures of the event, I'd be happy to put them up.

The Log Press
After a quick run over the rules we go on with the event. First was the Log Press, this was a 107kg log, that had to be lifted from the ground to above the head as many times as possible in 75 seconds. The event started slowly Bob getting one rep and then Michel failing to get any. This mean that Michael Daly was out of the event but would continue and not receive any point for any of the following events. A real shame for Michael as he did really well in the deadlift and the loading event.

But then Andy stepped up, all 5 foot near nothing of him and he belted out 6 good reps. A very good total. And this remained the best total until Louis took to the platform and managed 7 good fluid repetitions. there might have been another 1 in there but you sensed that he thought he had done enough. Brian Bell, with an injured back managed to gut out 5 respectable reps. But then came the heavy mob, Brian Turner and Paul Porteous both managed 8 reps, and made them look easy.

Honorable mention must also go to Frank Connolly and Stuart Murray who both managed 7 reps each. The final results were as follows.

Name
Brian Turner
Paul Porteous
Frank Connolly
Louis MacLean
Stuart Murray
Andy Patrick
Brian Bell
Ewan Cameron
Jamie Barr
Colin Bayne
David Burns
David Eastwood
Stuart Wadley
Alistair Christie
Stephen Murray
Raymond Christie
Bod Copsey
Christopher Innes
Michael Daly

Log Press
8
8
7
7
7
6
5
5
5
4
4
4
4
3
3
2
1
1
0

Place
1
1
3
3
3
6
7
7
7
10
10
10
10
14
14
16
17
17
19

Points
18
18
15
15
15
14
11
11
11
7
7
7
7
5
5
4
2
2
0

The Deadlift
This was just a normal 250kg deadlift but for repetitions. And if you'd been at this competition, you'd have thought just about anybody could deadlift 250kg, as all the athletes got at least 2 repetitions. David Eastwood who had never managed to deadlift 250 before managed 2 today giving himself yet another PB. But some of the other more seasoned competitors made it look easy. In the and Paul Porteous pulled off another win with 10 repetitions. With Brian Turner nipping at his heels with 9 repetitions. Colin Bayne, Louis MacLean and Michael all managed a 8 repetitions.

Name
Paul Porteous
Brian Turner
Colin Bayne
Louis MacLean
Stuart Murray
Christopher Innes
Ewan Cameron
Stuart Wadley
Alistair Christie
Brian Bell
Frank Connolly
Jamie Barr
Andy Patrick
Bod Copsey
Raymond Christie
David Burns
David Eastwood
Stephen Murray
Michael Daly

Deadlift
10
9
8
8
7
6
6
6
5
5
5
5
4
4
4
3
2
2
8

Place
1
2
3
3
5
6
6
6
9
9
9
9
13
13
13
16
17
17
19

Points
19
18
16
16
15
12
12
12
8
8
8
8
5
5
5
4
2
2
0

The Loading Event
And here we come to the last event of the qualifier, so far everything had gone well, no injuries and no complaints. But the next event was to be the one to finalise just who would be going into the finals in 5 weeks time. After 2 events the overall order was as follows.

Name
Paul Porteous
Brian Turner
Louis MacLean
Stuart Murray
Colin Bayne
Ewan Cameron
Frank Connolly
Andy Patrick
Brian Bell
Jamie Barr
Stuart Wadley
Christopher Innes
Alistair Christie
David Burns
David Eastwood
Raymond Christie
Bod Copsey
Stephen Murray
Michael Daly

Total Points
37
36
31
30
23
23
23
19
19
19
19
14
13
11
9
9
7
7
0

The last event was a real killer, 5 120kg kegs, to be carried 10 meters and then lifted onto barrels that were over 5 feet tall. David Eastwood after got the last event off with a very good time of 53 seconds. This was now the time to beat. It looked like a winning time until Jamie Barr came up, with only 4 weeks training under his belt, he set a cracking time of 43 seconds. No one was getting near this time and with only 4 athletes left it looked like Jamie was going to win an event. But Louis spoilt that party when he set the days fastest time at 40 seconds. The results for the final event were as follows.

Name
Louis MacLean
Jamie Barr
Frank Connolly
Paul Porteous
Stuart Murray
David Eastwood
Alistair Christie
Christopher Innes
Ewan Cameron
Stuart Wadley
Stephen Murray
Brian Bell
Andy Patrick
Bod Copsey
Colin Bayne
Raymond Christie
Brian Turner
David Burns
Michael Daly

Barrel
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
4
4
4
4
4
1
0
5

Time
0:40:00
0:43:00
0:45:00
0:47:00
0:51:00
0:53:00
0:58:00
0:59:00
1:08:00
1:15:00
1:16:00
0:46:38
0:50:00
1:01:30
1:05:52
1:16:49
0:08:57
0:00:00
0:53:00

Points
19
18
17
16
15
14
13
12
11
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
0
0

So that was it for another year, the final results were as follows.

Name
Paul Porteous
Louis MacLean
Stuart Murray
Frank Connolly
Brian Turner
Jamie Barr
Ewan Cameron
Stuart Wadley
Colin Bayne
Brian Bell
Christopher Innes
Andy Patrick
Alistair Christie
David Eastwood
Stephen Murray
Raymond Christie
Bod Copsey
David Burns
Michael Daly

Total Points
51
48
43
38
37
35
32
27
26
25
24
24
24
21
14
11
11
9
0

IM

The Scottish

The competition is scheduled to take place on the 14th of March 2004, in the Rothes Halls in the town of Glenrothes, Fife. The event will be televised this year (BBC) and will be shown the following week in a 50 minute program. So have your one liners ready.

Good luck to everyone.
IM

Honorable mention must also go to Frank Connolly and Stuart Murray who both managed 7 reps each. The final results were as follows.

The Loading Event And here we come to the last event of the qualifier, so far everything had gone well, no injuries and no complaints. But the next event was to be the one to finalise just who would be going into the finals in 5 weeks time. After 2 events the overall order was as follows.

So that was it for another year, the final results were as follows.

IM

The Loading Event
And here we come to the last event of the qualifier, so far everything had gone well, no injuries and no complaints. But the next event was to be the one to finalise just who would be going into the finals in 5 weeks time. After 2 events the overall order was as follows.