Tjalling van den Bosch

Tjalling van den Bosch, often called Charlie, is a former Dutch powerlifter, strongman and Highland Games athlete, born on 28 June 1958 in Achlum. He competed once in the World's Strongest Man contest, finishing seventh in 1990 after an injury forced him out of the 1989 field, and he won the Strongest Man of the Netherlands title in 1989. He also took the World Truck Pull Championship twice, in 1989 and 1991, and was Dutch Highland Games champion. His records include a joint world record in the caber over bar and a Guinness record for pulling 18 cars over 20 metres. He studied psychology in Finland, has coached footballers, speed skaters, track and field athletes and cyclists, gives talks to companies, has hosted a television game show and appeared in the film Bullseye!. He founded the Pure Strength strongman contest, held from 1987 to 1990, and was once ranked in the world top 100 at draughts.