Tom Magee

Tom Magee, full name Thomas Magee, was born on 1 July 1958 and is a Canadian former world champion powerlifter and strongman competitor from Winnipeg, Manitoba. He became Canadian national powerlifting champion in 1981 and 1982, placed second at the 1981 IPF World Powerlifting Championship and won the world title in the super heavyweight class at Munich in 1982, a victory recorded in the documentary Tom Magee: Man of Iron. In strongman he placed second at the 1982 World's Strongest Man, fourth in 1983 and fifth in 1985, and set a world record partial deadlift of 535 kilograms in 1983. He was also a bodybuilder and wrestled professionally from 1985 to 1990, including for the World Wrestling Federation.