BanjaLuka
10-14-2011, 03:01 PM
Please classify this legendary strongman, thank you! His height was 179 cm.
Louis Cyr (1863-1912) was a famous Canadian strongman with a career spanning the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His recorded feats, including lifting 500 pounds (227 kg) with one finger and carrying 4,337 pounds (1967 kg) on his back, show Cyr to be, according to former International Federation of BodyBuilding & Fitness chairman Ben Weider, the strongest man ever to have lived.
Cyr was born "Cyprien-Noé" in St. Cyprien de Napierville in Quebec, Canada. From the age of twelve Cyr worked in a lumber camp during the winters and on the family’s farm the rest of the year. He impressed his fellow workers with his feats of strength. According to one of his biographers, his mother decided “he should let his hair grow, like Samson in the Bible.” She curled it regularly.[1]
In 1878 the Cyr family immigrated to Lowell, Massachusetts in the United States. It was in Lowell that, Cyr changed his name from Cyprien-Noé to Louis, as it was easier to pronounce in English. Again his great strength brought him fame. At seventeen he weighed 230 pounds (104 kg). He entered his first strongman contest in Boston at age eighteen, lifting a horse off the ground, the fully grown male horse was placed on a platform with 2 iron bars attached enabling Cyr to obtain a better grip. The horse weighed at least 3/4 of a ton.[1]...
more here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Cyr
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cyrlouis.gif
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/68/Louis-cyr.jpg
http://www.acadian.org/images/louiscyrhorses.jpg
http://brightbytes.com/collection/images/cyr.jpg
http://www.oldtimestrongmanblog.com/images/louis_cyr.gif
http://www.davidhorne-gripmaster.com/greats5_clip_image002.jpg
http://www.oocities.org/colosseum/field/7342/Cyr.jpg
http://www.ifbbpro.com/wp-content/uploads/image/2009/features/louiscyr_4.jpg
http://www.archives.uqam.ca/pages/images/p_120p.jpg
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2zFyiM87_io/Tc-vLXeATMI/AAAAAAAAA38/-1g1ehCro_g/s1600/cyr02.jpg
http://popartmachine.com/artwork/LOC+1051166/0/John-Robinson%27s-$25,000-challenge-feature--Mr.-Louis-Cyr-strongest...-painting-artwork-print.jpg
Louis Cyr (1863-1912) was a famous Canadian strongman with a career spanning the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His recorded feats, including lifting 500 pounds (227 kg) with one finger and carrying 4,337 pounds (1967 kg) on his back, show Cyr to be, according to former International Federation of BodyBuilding & Fitness chairman Ben Weider, the strongest man ever to have lived.
Cyr was born "Cyprien-Noé" in St. Cyprien de Napierville in Quebec, Canada. From the age of twelve Cyr worked in a lumber camp during the winters and on the family’s farm the rest of the year. He impressed his fellow workers with his feats of strength. According to one of his biographers, his mother decided “he should let his hair grow, like Samson in the Bible.” She curled it regularly.[1]
In 1878 the Cyr family immigrated to Lowell, Massachusetts in the United States. It was in Lowell that, Cyr changed his name from Cyprien-Noé to Louis, as it was easier to pronounce in English. Again his great strength brought him fame. At seventeen he weighed 230 pounds (104 kg). He entered his first strongman contest in Boston at age eighteen, lifting a horse off the ground, the fully grown male horse was placed on a platform with 2 iron bars attached enabling Cyr to obtain a better grip. The horse weighed at least 3/4 of a ton.[1]...
more here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Cyr
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cyrlouis.gif
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/68/Louis-cyr.jpg
http://www.acadian.org/images/louiscyrhorses.jpg
http://brightbytes.com/collection/images/cyr.jpg
http://www.oldtimestrongmanblog.com/images/louis_cyr.gif
http://www.davidhorne-gripmaster.com/greats5_clip_image002.jpg
http://www.oocities.org/colosseum/field/7342/Cyr.jpg
http://www.ifbbpro.com/wp-content/uploads/image/2009/features/louiscyr_4.jpg
http://www.archives.uqam.ca/pages/images/p_120p.jpg
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2zFyiM87_io/Tc-vLXeATMI/AAAAAAAAA38/-1g1ehCro_g/s1600/cyr02.jpg
http://popartmachine.com/artwork/LOC+1051166/0/John-Robinson%27s-$25,000-challenge-feature--Mr.-Louis-Cyr-strongest...-painting-artwork-print.jpg