René Minkwitz

René Kurland Minkwitz, born on 7 February 1970, is a retired Danish strongman athlete. He won the Denmark's Strongest Man title five times, in 2000, 2001, 2004, 2005 and 2006, which made him one of the most successful national champions of that decade. On the international stage he finished tenth in the World's Strongest Man final of 1999 and went on to compete in the qualifying heats of the same contest in 2000 and from 2002 to 2004 without returning to the final. He holds a recorded world record in the power stairs event, set at the 2004 IFSA Lithuania Grand Prix, and later placed second at the 2011 Ultimate Strongman Masters World Championship in Belfast.