Winner Zydrunas Savickas Athletes participating 30 | Nations participating 18 | |
Host city Los Angeles, California United States | ||
The 2014 World's Strongest Man was the 37th edition of World's Strongest Man. The event was held at the Commerce Casino in Los Angeles, California, the same host city as the 2012 World's Strongest Man contest. The qualifying heats were held from March 22–25 and the finals on March 28 & 29. Unlike previous years when 10 athletes qualified for the finals, this year there were 12 qualifying spots. The top 2 from each heat qualified, as well as the 2 highest scoring 3rd place athletes from all 5 heats. The event was sponsored by the Commerce Casino and will begin broadcasting in the United States on the CBS Sports Network from July 4-August 13, 2014. Zydrunas Savickas from Lithuania finished in first place, this was his fourth WSM title. Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson from Iceland finished in second place, and Brian Shaw from the United States came in third.
Finals
In the Atlas Stones, the tower fell when Mike Burke attempted to lift his first stone. He proceeded to lift the next four stones in a time of 36.92 seconds. After initially crediting him with no points because the stones all have to be lifted in order, the judges finally ruled it an equipment failure and gave Burke 6 points. This made Warrick Brant, Eddie Hall, Martin Wildauer, Jean-François Caron and Laurence Shahlaei lose one point as Burke placed ahead of them in the Stones, modifying the final standings. Instead of 40 points, Burke consolidated his fourth place with a total of 46. The ruling also made Dave Ostlund and Eddie Hall tie for sixth place while Hall was originally sixth, and it gave ninth place to Jerry Pritchett who overtook Laurence Shahlaei.