Jamie Reeves

Jamie Reeves (born 3 May 1962 in Sheffield) is a British former coal miner, strongman and professional wrestler who won the 1989 World's Strongest Man in San Sebastian. He took up weights after watching Bill Kazmaier win in 1982, became Yorkshire and North East superheavy powerlifting champion by 1986, and in 1988 won John Smith's Trial of Strength, which served as that year's Britain's Strongest Man. That year he also broke Thomas Topham's 274 year old record by harness lifting three beer barrels weighing 845 kg, and finished third at the World's Strongest Man. He was also World Muscle Power champion and nine times England's Strongest Man, and after retiring he worked as an International Federation of Strength Athletes judge and ran his own gym.