Arild Haugen

Arild Haugen, nicknamed Hulk, is a former Norwegian strongman and boxer from Sirdal Municipality, born on 30 December 1985. He entered strongman competition in 2006 at Norway's Strongest Man, finishing second to Svend Karlsen, and that result opened the international circuit. At twenty years and 267 days he became the second youngest competitor in the history of the World's Strongest Man, though he did not reach the 2006 final. In the 2008 contest he set a world record in the Atlas Stones run and qualified for the final, and he won the 2008 Strongman Super Series Viking Power Challenge. In 2007 and 2008 he won Norway's Strongest Man. He later turned to boxing, winning his first fight by knockout in December 2009 against Latvian Pavels Dolgovs, and he lives in Sandnes.