Kostiantyn Ilin

Kostyantyn Ilin is a leading Ukrainian strongman competitor, born on 26 March 1975 in Chernivtsi, who has entered the World's Strongest Man. Having competed in 54 international strongman competitions and won eight of them, he is counted among the fifty most decorated strongmen in history. He came to the sport late, at about thirty, and within four years was his country's national champion, winning Ukraine's Strongest Man in 2009. That year he was invited to the 2009 World's Strongest Man in a field described as the best ever, but did not make the final from a group whose top two were Derek Poundstone and Louis-Philippe Jean, and he again failed to reach the final at the 2010 contest. In December 2010 he broke Derek Poundstone's world record in the 95 kilogram circus dumbbell with ten repetitions at the Strongman Champions League event in Kyiv. His listed personal bests are a 220 kilogram bench press, a 380 kilogram squat and a 385 kilogram deadlift.