Manfred Hoeberl

Manfred Hoeberl is an Austrian former strongman, powerlifter and bodybuilder, born on 12 May 1964. In the early to mid 1990s he claimed to have the largest arms in the world, and at the 1994 Arnold Schwarzenegger Classic a bodybuilding journalist measured his upper arm at 25.75 inches cold. In strongman competition he won Europe's Strongest Man in 1993 and 1994 and the World Muscle Power Classic in the same two years, and he was runner up at the 1994 World's Strongest Man, losing the title to Magnús Ver Magnússon by 0.87 seconds in the final Atlas Stones event. He also won Austria's Strongest Man seven times and was certified on the No. 3 Captains of Crush gripper in 1997. A near fatal car crash after the 1994 final and a biceps injury at the 1997 European Hercules contest ended his top level career.