Gerrit Badenhorst

Gerrit Badenhorst, born in De Aar, Northern Cape, South Africa, on 10 October 1962, is a South African former powerlifter and strongman who was a WPC world champion and a runner-up at the World's Strongest Man competition. He also won the World Strongman Challenge, World Mighty Man and South Africa's Strongest Man eight times. Some strength analysts and historians regard him as the best athlete never to have won the World's Strongest Man title. He played rugby union as a sportsman but excelled in weightlifting and powerlifting, first represented South Africa internationally as a powerlifter, and between 1988 and 1990 won three world titles in the World Powerlifting Congress.