Jessen Paulin

Jessen Paulin, born on May 29, 1974, is a Canadian strongman from Gatineau, Quebec. He is known as a multiple Quebec's Strongest Man champion and a two-time Canada's Strongest Man, winning the national title in 2005 and 2006 while the long-time champion Hugo Girard was recovering from a foot injury, and he was crowned North America's Strongest Man in 2007 and again in 2008. He first reached the Canada's Strongest Man finals in 1999 and placed second nationally in 2002, 2003 and 2004. In 2003 he qualified for the finals of the World's Strongest Man for the first and only time, finishing eighth, and he returned to the competition in later years without reaching the grand final. He withdrew from the 2008 Fortissimus event and retired from international competition, leaving a wheelbarrow push record of 1,077 kilograms set in 2003.