Kristján Jón Haraldsson

Kristján Jón Haraldsson is an Icelandic strongman from Reykjavík, born on 3 June 1998, who has won Iceland's Strongest Man title three times. He entered the national strongman circuit in 2018 and by 2021 had finished runner-up at both Strongest Man in Iceland and Iceland's Strongest Viking. In 2022 he won Iceland's Strongest Viking, Strongest Man in Iceland and Iceland's Strongest Man in the same calendar year, only the second Icelander after Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson to do so, which earned him an invitation to the 2023 World's Strongest Man, where he placed fifth in his qualifying heat. In 2023 he won Strongest Man in Iceland and Iceland's Strongest Man a second time. His listed training and event records include a 280 kg raw deadlift and a record 220 kg leggstein carry at the 2021 Westfjord's Viking.