David Ostlund

David Ostlund, born 7 May 1981, is an American professional strongman competitor who grew up in Edina, Minnesota, and attended Edina High School. He competed in the shot put and discus on the school track and field team, and weight training for track sparked his interest in strongman. He entered his first strongman contest in May 2001 in Lac du Flambeau, Wisconsin, and won it. After graduating from the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul in 2003, he won his professional card at The Strongest in the West contest in Eagle, Idaho, in 2004. His results include third place at the 2008 World's Strongest Man in Charleston, West Virginia, and a world record in the Odd Haugen tombstone carry, 186 kilograms over 25 metres, set at the 2007 Strongman Super Series Venice Beach Grand Prix.