2001 World's Strongest Man
Introduction The '''2001 World's Strongest Man''' was the 24th edition of World's Strongest Man and was won by Svend Karlsen from Norway. It was his first title after finishing second the previous year. 1998 winner Magnus Samuelsson from Sweden  finished second after finishing third the previous year, and 2000 winner Janne Virtanen from Finland finished third. The contest was held at Victoria Falls, Zambia.
Qualifying heats ===Heat 1===* Events: Carry & Drag (Duck Walk & Drag Chain & Anchor), Arm Over Arm Train Pull, Africa Stone, Max Deadlift, Stone Circle (Connan Circle), Atlas Stones # Name Nationality Pts 1 Juha-Matti Räsänen   26 2 Wout Zijlstra   25.5 3 Rob Dixon   24 4 Karl Gillingham   21.5 5 Derek Boyer   20 6 Israel Garrido   9Magnus Ver Magnusson of Iceland was originally intended to be within this Heat but had to withdraw making room for the reserve Israel Garrido.===Heat 2===* Events: Carry & Drag (Duck Walk & Drag Chain & Anchor), Fingal's Fingers, Arm Over Arm Train Pull, Hercules Hold, Max Deadlift, Atlas Stones # Name Nationality Pts 1 Svend Karlsen   27.5 2 Hugo Girard   27 3 Mark Philippi   22.5 4 Torbjörn Samuelsson   21 5 Marc Iliffe   14.5 6 Regin Vagadal   13.5===Heat 3===* Events: Carry & Flip (Farmer's Walk & Tyre Flip), Arm Over Arm Train Pull, Africa Stone, Max Deadlift, Stone Circle (Connan Circle), Atlas Stones # Name Nationality Pts 1 Magnus Samuelsson   28 2 Martin Muhr   26 3 Travis Lyndon   25 4 Raimonds Bergmanis   17.5 5 Johnny Perry   16.5 6 Glenn Ross   13===Heat 4===* Events: Carry & Drag (Duck Walk & Drag Chain & Anchor), Arm Over Arm Train Pull, Africa Stone, Max Deadlift, Stone Circle (Connan Circle), Atlas Stones # Name Nationality Pts 1 Janne Virtanen   31 2 Andrew Raynes   21 3 Heinz Ollesch   20 4 Ralf Ber   20 5 Brian Schoonveld   17 6 Levi Vaoga   17Bill Lyndon of Australia was originally intended to be within this Heat but had to withdraw making room for the Levi Vaoga who was not down as an official reserve.===Heat 5===* Events: Carry & Flip (Farmer's Walk & Tyre Flip), Fingal's Fingers, Arm Over Arm Train Pull, Hercules Hold, Max Deadlift, Atlas Stones # Name Nationality Pts 1 Phil Pfister   31 2 Jarek Dymek   30 3 Odd Haugen   21 4 Adrian Rollinson   18.5 5 Johan van Heerden   16.5 6 Flemming Rasmussen   7 (injury)===Reserves===*Israel Garrido  - used (Heat 1)*Brian Bell *Chad Coy
Final results  # Name Nationality Pts 1 Svend Karlsen   53.5 2 Magnus Samuelsson   51.5 3 Janne Virtanen   50 4 Phil Pfister   46 5 Martin Muhr   40 6 Hugo Girard   38.5 7 Jarek Dymek   30 8 Wout Zijlstra   28.5 9 Juha-Matti Räsänen   25.5 10 Andrew Raynes   18.5
References
External links *  Official site