Mark Westaby

Mark Westaby is a British strongman competitor, born on 17 April 1965 in Healaugh near Tadcaster in Yorkshire, and a repeat competitor at the World's Strongest Man. After Tadcaster Grammar School he became a farmer, and he came to strength athletics by chance when he wandered across a local strongman contest in 2003, entered it and won. His rise was fast: by 2006 he had won Adrian Rollinson's Might Midlander, in 2007 he finished fifth in Britain's Strongest Man and earned a place in the World's Strongest Man finals, and in 2008 he was fifth again. In 2009 he was second in England's Strongest Man and third in UK's Strongest Man. In 2010 he won the strongman competition at the Bodypower Expo, which earned an invitation to the Strongman Champions League event in Ireland, where he placed sixth. Outside the sport he runs a smallholding and a landscaping business.