Luke Richardson (strength athlete)

Luke Richardson, born on 20 June 1997, is a British strongman and powerlifter. He began as a powerlifter and was the 2018 junior 120 kilogram plus champion, tying with Pavlo Nakonechnyy on a total of 1,010.5 kilograms but winning outright on lower body weight. He then switched to strongman and won the 2020 Europe's Strongest Man, becoming the youngest winner in the history of that contest, and finished ninth in the World's Strongest Man finals that year. He withdrew from the 2021 competition after rupturing a distal biceps tendon. In 2023 he won the Giants Live version of England's Strongest Man, and in 2025 he won Europe's Strongest Man for the second time.