Adam Bishop

Adam Bishop is an English strongman who has retired from competition after a career built around the deadlift. He began entering open strongman contests in 2012, having progressed up from the under-105 kilogram category, took second place at the 2014 UK's Strongest Man and made his first World's Strongest Man heats in 2015. He reached the World's Strongest Man final for the first time in 2019, finishing ninth, and improved to sixth in 2020, the same year as the first of his two Britain's Strongest Man wins; the second came in 2023. In 2024 he set a world record in the moving deadlift ladder, and in 2025 he pulled a personal best of 470 kilograms at the World Deadlift Championships. Away from strongman he has played rugby as a winger, tried skeleton bobsleigh and worked as a strength and conditioning coach for Harlequin F.C. before committing to strongman full time in 2021.