ENGLAND's Strongest man 2017 report

PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Peak District Highland Games  Report and Results– Matlock 27th August 2017 Most of us love watching strongmen as they don our TV sets at Christmas. From lifting cars to pulling buses and trucks what these guys can do is pretty phenomenal. However when they came to Matlock Farm park they competed in the Peak Districts first ever Highland Games. Run by Man Beast Strongman events, in conjunction with Matlock Farm Park National and regional strongman descended on the Peak District to battle it out across 5 brutal events. This included Giant log press (weight 23 stone), stone carry (30 stones in weight), 8 ton tractor pull, caber toss and stone throw for distance. England’s strongest man 2016, Paul Smith was the official referee with Dan Hipkiss and two times Guinness World Record Holder Mark Anglesea managing the event on the day. Amongst those competing were Sheffield’s strongest man Simon Knowles, crowd favourite Ashton ‘the bear’ Reid –

Press Release City of Steel melting pot of Strongman talent Sheffielder wins Sheffield’s strongest man title 30 th July 2017   Simon Knowles is an imposing sight, standing at 6 feet 5 inches tall and tipping the scales at over 26.5 stones! To maintain that means eating as much as 7-8000 calories per day – about a weeks worth of calories in 1 day on the weight watchers plan! But this is a strongmans diet. Calories equal strength in this brutal sport of raw power.   Simon took the title of Sheffield’s strongest man at the Titanium Strength gym, run ironically by England’s strongest new man Phil Roberts last weekend. Not only that, but the gym is where the UK’s second strongest junior trains.   If these men don’t represent the City of steel as an economic powerhouse we don’t know who does. TitleS are been won and kept at a National level in Sheffield. It is a hotbed of strongman talent.   Simon competed against athletes from Stoke and Edinburgh