Dmytro Khaladzhi

Dmytro Khaladzhi, born on 19 April 1979, is a Ukrainian strength athlete of Greek descent. He won the first championship of the Ukrainian Drug-free Powerlifting Federation in the bench press in 2009 and has also been a champion in hand-to-hand combat and traditional wrestling. He is widely called the strongest man in Donbas and the strongest man in Ukraine. As a child he suffered severe burns from boiling water and had to learn to walk again, then built his strength and performed in the Donetsk circus. His recorded feats include lifting a 152 kilogram stone with one hand, and in 2013 he played the lead in a film about the Ukrainian strongman Ivan Firtsak-Kroton.