Pavlo Kordiyaka is the 2023 Europe's Strongest Man

A milestone second for a younger strongman.

Written by Robert Zeglinski Final up to date on April 3, 2023

Pavlo Kordiyaka is the 2023 Europe’s Strongest Man (ESM) champion. The Ukrainian strongman prevailed within the 13-athlete contest that includes the strongest lively athletes with European lineage. The celebrated competitors passed off on Apr. 1, 2023, in Leeds, England, and in the end noticed Kordiyaka topped as its king.

Former defending ESM champion and fellow Ukrainian countryman Oleksii Novikov completed in second place. Novikov was notably nursing a recent minor lat muscle injury, and which will have performed an element in falling in need of defending his title. In response to Strongman Archives, regardless of the damage and runner-up outcome, it’s Novikov’s eighth podium inserting in his final 9 contests courting again to early 2022. Rounding out this 12 months’s ESM podium was Latvia’s Aivars Šmaukstelis, winner of the 2022 World Strongman Championships (WSC), in third place. It’s Šmaukstelis’ seventh consecutive podium outcome courting again to August 2022.

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The 2023 ESM featured 5 occasions on this order:

To notch his victory, Kordiyaka received the Log Press Ladder (5 lifts in 52.55 seconds), the Load and Push Race (a time of 44.14 seconds), and the Conan’s Wheel (with a rotation of 1009-degrees; nearly three full revolutions). That rotation size is a brand new World File on the Conan’s Wheel. Kordiyaka recorded three reps of the 350-kilogram (771.6-pound) Deadlift in a single minute for sixth place. The athlete ranked second on the Fortress Stones (an Atlas Stones variation) when he lifted all 5 in 21.76 seconds. Solely Šmaukstelis fared higher (5 in 20.47 seconds).

Listed here are the ultimate standings from the 2023 ESM:

2023 Europe’s Strongest Man Last Standings

Pavlo Kordiyaka (Ukraine) — 57.5 factors
Oleksii Novikov (Ukraine) — 53.5 factors
Aivars Šmaukstelis (Latvia) — 51.5 factors
Eythór Ingólfsson Melsted (Iceland) — 45.5 factors
Adam Bishop (United Kingdom) — 41.5 factors
Shane Flowers (United Kingdom) — 37 factors
Pa O’Dwyer (Eire) — 36.5 factors
Konstantine Janashia (Georgia) — 30.5 factors
Dennis Kohlruss (Germany) — 26 factors
Paul Smith (United Kingdom) — 25.5 factors
Gavin Bilton (United Kingdom) — 17.5 factors
Jean-Stephen Coraboeuf (France) — 16.5 factors
Graham Hicks (United Kingdom) — 8 factors

Per Strongman Archives, this ESM triumph might arguably be one of the best of Kordiyaka’s profession up to now. The 27-year-old also can boast wins within the 2020 Ukraine’s Strongest Man (USM), the 2021 Official Strongman Video games (OSG), and the 2022 Marijampole Worldwide. His earlier greatest end within the ESM was a fourth-place debut in 2022.

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Kordiyaka will subsequent compete within the 2023 World’s Strongest Man (WSM) on Apr. 19-23, 2023, in Myrtle Seashore, SC. He didn’t advance to the Last in his 2022 WSM debut. Momentum from his 2023 ESM win would possibly push Kordiyaka to thrive on this subsequent event.

Featured picture: @pavlo_kordiyaka on Instagram

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