Andrés Guðmundsson

Andrés Guðmundsson is an Icelandic strongman and Highland Games competitor, born on 17 April 1965. He began in sport as a volleyball player and then a thrower, reaching a discus best of 53.02 metres in 1991 and a shot put best of 18.84 metres in 1996. In strength athletics he won the 1991 Icelandic Power Trial Championships, was second in the 1993 World Viking Challenge, and in 1994 won the World Strongman Challenge and the European Hercules. A torn pectoral muscle interrupted his career, and he returned to win Iceland's Strongest Man in 1999 before the injury recurred at the 2000 IFSA Helsinki Grand Prix. He is especially remembered for carrying the 186 kg Húsafell Stone.