Mykhailo Starov

Mykhailo Starov is a competitive strongman from Ukraine who has taken part in 24 international strongman competitions and won five of them, which puts him among the fifty most decorated strongmen of all time according to his article. He is a two-time World Strongman Cup Federation champion and a three-time United Strongman Series champion. From 2001 to 2004 he finished runner-up to his countryman Vasyl Virastyuk four years in a row, then won Ukraine's Strongest Man in 2005 and went on to take third place at Europe's Strongest Man that year, behind Jarek Dymek and Janne Virtanen. The article lists his personal records as a 426 kilogram squat, a 230 kilogram bench press, a 340 kilogram deadlift and a 150 kilogram log press. Its infobox places his height at five feet eleven inches and his weight at 125 kilograms.