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Graham Hicks

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Graham Hicks is an English strongman and powerlifter, born on 15 November 1985 in Morecambe, Lancashire. He came to strongman at about the age of 25 after training as a bodybuilder, began competing in 2010 in the under 105 kilogram class, and was working as a design support engineer at BAE Systems in 2013. He is a Britain's Strongest Man champion and a two time bronze medallist at Europe's Strongest Man, and he is counted among the notable deadlifters in strongman, having won the 2023 World Deadlift Championships with a lift of 470 kilograms. His pressing strength is also well known: he was the first person in the United Kingdom to lift a 200 kilogram log, and he set a log press world record at the 2017 Strongman Champions League event. In 2025 he returned to competition and won the Strongman Champions League Poland.

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