Kristin Rhodes

Kristin Rhodes, born Kristin Danielson, is an American strongwoman who won the World's Strongest Woman title in 2012 at the competition held in Hameenlinna, Finland. She comes from an athletic family as the granddaughter of shot putter Bill Nieder and the niece of middle distance runner Tim Danielson, and she played soccer and threw the hammer, discus, javelin and shot put before turning to strongwoman training in 2006 under her husband, a competitive strongman. She was runner-up at the 2008 World's Strongest Woman and again in 2013, won the Arnold Amateur Strongwoman World Championships in 2015 and finished fourth in 2016. She has also set records, among them the first unassisted lift of the Rogue replica Dinnie Stones by a woman in 2019 and a 279.5 kilogram elephant bar deadlift at the 2020 Rogue Record Breakers.