Jarno Hams

Jarno Hams is a Dutch strongman born in 1974 in Hengelo, Overijssel, to a Dutch father and a Finnish mother, who grew up in Vroomshoop. He took up strongman competition in 1996, finishing third at the Strongest Man of East Netherlands, and won the national Strongest Man of the Netherlands title seven times, tying Berend Veneberg for the most wins. He was invited to the World's Strongest Man in 2002 and 2003 but did not get out of the qualifying heats, reached the finals of the 2007 IFSA Strongman World Championships where he placed twelfth, and won the 2006 World's Strongest Team with Edwin Hakvoort. He also set a Dutch log lift record of 182.5 kilograms in 2012.