Torfi Ólafsson

Torfi Ólafsson, born on 13 April 1965, is an Icelandic former strongman competitor and junior world champion powerlifter. Standing 201 centimetres tall and weighing about 190 kilograms, he was one of the largest Icelanders to compete at the World's Strongest Man. He began as a powerlifter and won the IPF Junior World Powerlifting Championship at the age of twenty, and the EPF Junior European Championships in 1985, before moving to strength athletics. He won Iceland's Strongest Man in 1997, placed third at the World Muscle Power Championships in 1996 and reached fourth place at the World's Strongest Man in 1997, the best of his five appearances. He also competed in Highland Games, and his children are strength athletes in their own right.