Jan Wagenaar

Jan Wagenaar is a Dutch strength athlete from Friesland, born in Scharnegoutum on 19 October 1976, who worked as a roofer and was the Strongest Man of Friesland for years in a row. He won the title of Strongest Man of the Netherlands on 16 July 2011, in the 25th edition of the contest, watched by nearly all former champions including Gerard du Prie, the first winner in 1979. His teacher Wout Zijlstra had taken the same title ten years earlier. Wagenaar finished second behind Jarno Hams in 2012, second behind Jitse Kramer in 2013 and second again in 2015, and as a veteran stand-in placed tenth of twelve finalists in 2019. He also won the national Strongest Team of the Netherlands title with Johan Langhorst in 2012 and set a Frisian bench press record of 235 kilograms in 2008. He stood 187 centimetres tall and weighed 140 to 150 kilograms.