Bill Anderson (strongman)

William Smith Anderson (6 October 1937 to 2 August 2019) was a Scottish Highland Games athlete from Bucksburn near Aberdeen, who began competing at Alford in 1956 and excelled at caber tossing and hammer throwing. He won the World Highland Games Championships in 1981 and the Scottish Highland Games Championships 16 times, and he also took British, European, American and Canadian titles. In 1969 he became the first man to hurl the light Scottish hammer 150 feet, and his light weight throw and weight over bar marks stood as world records for years. He entered the 1979 World's Strongest Man at the age of 42 but withdrew early with an injury. He was made an MBE in 1977 and entered the Scottish Sports Hall of Fame in 2007.