Oleksii Novikov

Oleksii Novikov, born on 11 February 1996 and raised in Kyiv, is a Ukrainian professional strongman. He won the 2020 World's Strongest Man at 24 years and 278 days old, the second Ukrainian champion after Vasyl Virastyuk in 2004 and the second youngest winner in the contest's history. He is also a two-time World's Ultimate Strongman winner in 2021, the 2022 Rogue Invitational champion and the 2022 Europe's Strongest Man. Earlier he won Ukraine's Strongest Man every year from 2016 to 2019 and the Arnold Amateur Strongman World Championships in 2018. He holds world records in the hummer tyre deadlift, the Flintstone press, the wrecking ball hold and the one arm giant dumbbell press, and he works with the Kyiv Police Special Forces.