Vytautas Lalas

Vytautas Lalas, born on 21 July 1982, is a Lithuanian professional strongman who won the 2013 Arnold Strongman Classic and was runner-up at the 2012 World's Strongest Man behind fellow Lithuanian Žydrūnas Savickas. He began competing in Lithuania's Strongest Man in 2007, won Giants Live Poland in 2010 and reached his first World's Strongest Man final in 2011, finishing sixth. In 2012 he set a world record of eleven repetitions in the giant barbell squat with 317.5 kilograms in a qualifying heat. Back injuries from 2014 onward limited his later career, and his last competition was the 2018 Burn Showdown; some strength historians regard him as the best athlete never to have won World's Strongest Man.