HIGHLAND GAMES 2019 - SHEFFIELD RESULTS AND SHOW REPORT


The Sheffield Highland Fling Highland strongman games Show 6th May 2019.

Man Beast strongman events were pleased to put on 5 Highland games events to entertain a partisan crowd at Graves Park, Sheffield.

With 5 top National Athletes and experienced Highland games competitors we had a series of gruelling events;

1. Log Press - 60 seconds as many repetitions over head as possible. Weight 20 stones.

2. Stone Throw - 25kg - the equivalent of shot put - strongman style - for distance.

3. Famous Icelandic Husafell stone carry for time - 50 metre course. 25 stone in weight

4. The iconic highland game caber toss - 60kg short caber thrown for distance.

5. Tug of war with 20 selected children from the crowd. Always a fans favourite.

Competitors

1. Mark Anglesea two times Guinness World Record holder (car Carry) is the referee/event manager on the day. He also competed at Britain's strongest man and referees National competitions.
 
2. Athlete 1: Paul Smith. Featured on World's strongest man 2018 (channel 5), Britain strongest man 2018/19 and was the youngest ever man to win England's strongest man in 2017 at 22 years of age. He also held the title of Worlds strongest junior out in Canada 2017. Holds the world record for the hammer hold (beating Eddie Hall).
 
3. Athlete 2: Scott Mark Litchfield two times winner of the Peak District Highland games 2017/18 and former Sheffield's strongest man. Excels in Highland games events.

4. Athlete 3: Ashton the bear Reid: 2nd Strongbeach World Championship, 3rd Junior UK's Strongest man, several first second and third places in other comps. Stands at just under 6 feet 5 inches tall tipping the scales at 24 stones. Competes in Peak District Highland games.
5. Athlete 4: Simon Knowles - 6 feet 5 inches tall, 28 stones, former Yorkshire's strongest man 2017, former Sheffield strongest man and 3rd in the Peak District Highland Games 2018.
 
6. Athlete 5 - Dave Thornton 6 feet 4 inches tall, 25 stone and a Peak District Highland Games podium top 3 athlete.
 
Scott Mark Litchfield x2 times Peak District Highland Games Champion
 
SHOW REPORT
 
This was a showcase of some of the events we run in the official competitions so no overall winner was declared, however here are a selection of results from a few of the events.
 
Log Press - both Paul Smith (12 reps) and Scott Mark Litchfield (13 reps) the standout competitors in the log press. The crowd clearly backing the world class profile of Paul Smith and face painted warrior Scott working up the crowd.
 
Simon Knowles former Yorkshire's strongest man
 
Stone throw - Scott has already amassed two titles of the Peak District Highland Games champion and even in the demonstration events throws performs consistently well. Lets be in no doubt for some of the guys these demonstrations we do are a warm up and practice for the competitions. But be under no illusion in Sheffield the guys had their game face on and all like to get one over each other (in a fun / rivalry kind of way)
 
Paul Smith Former England's strongest man with Kas Strength for life Physio
 
Stone throw
1. Scott Mark Litchfield  11 metres
2. Simon Knowles 10m 20
3. Paul Smith 10 metres
4. Dave Thornton 9 m 40
5. Ashton Reid 9m
 
 
 
Dave Thornton is no doubt becoming a growing threat to the podium in the official Peak District Highland Games. He won the caber and pushed Scott down from his top finishes so far. Paul Smith struggled a little at tossing the caber but we got some great shots on the release from the caber whilst Paul was perfecting his technique. Ashton and Simon Knowles getting the caber nice and high.
 
Caber Toss
1. Dave Thornton 9 metres
2. Scott Mark Litchfield 8m 10
3. Ashton Reid 7m 30
4. Simon Knowles 7m
5. Paul Smith 7m 10
 
Dave Thornton Highland games podium finisher.
 
Another Dave Thornton event. He even found time to talk to the referee Mark Anglesea whilst picking up the nitemare Husafell stone that some of ghe athletes struggled to event lift and grip. Once off Dave put in a blistering pace rightfully securing first place. We are looking forward to seeing what Dave can do this year at competitions.
 
Stone Carry
Dave Thornton - 1st place - 13.74 seconds
Scott Mark Litchfield 2nd place 14.83 seconds
 
Ashton the bear Reid
 
Always a crowd favourite we did the tug of war with 20 screaming Sheffield strong children taking on the athletes. Over 3 rounds backed by an atmospheric crowd on the 3rd round the strongman sat down with the rope to stop the strong kids winning until finally succumbing to the children's relentless pulling of the rope.
 
In between events the guys were kept busy with photo requests, lifting people up and chatting to crowd members. Strength for life also came down to talk to the crowd about their physio services across Sheffield. Check them out here: https://www.strengthforlifeltd.co.uk/
 
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Tug of War
3 rounds Strongmen 1 - vs children 2 - children win!

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