Eddy Ellwood

Eddy Ellwood is a British bodybuilder and strongman born in 1964, best known as a five-time winner of the professional NABBA Mr Universe contest. He began as a boxer, stepped up to heavyweight and, at nineteen, entered and won a junior bodybuilding contest before taking the Mr Britain title. He began competing in strongman in 2002 and finished fourth at the 2003 Britain's Strongest Man, which brought an invitation to the 2003 World's Strongest Man in Victoria Falls, Zambia. He won the England's Strongest Man title three years running from 2003 to 2005, plus the IFSA version in 2005, for four titles in all. In 2022 he was fined for breaching COVID-19 lockdown laws by letting people use his gym.