1998 World's Strongest Man
Introduction The '''1998 World's Strongest Man''' was the 21st edition of World's Strongest Man and was won by Magnus Samuelsson from Sweden. It was his first title after finishing third the previous year. 1997 champion Jouko Ahola from Finland finished second, and Wout Zijlstra from the Netherlands finished third. This year had 10 qualifying heats with the winner of each heat going on to the finals. Half the field were injured during the finals of the contest, as well as several heat winners prior to the finals such as Flemming Rasmussen and Gerrit Badenhorst. The contest was held in Tangier/Tétouan, Morocco.
Heats ===Group 1===PositionNameNationalityPoints 1.Riku Kiri    14.5 2.Torben Sorrenson    11 3.Jaromir Nemec    8 4.Ralph Williams    4.5 (injured)===Group 2===PositionNameNationalityPoints 1.Flemming Rasmussen    14 (injured) 2.Russ Bradley    10 2.Martin Muhr    10 4.Ginaud Dupuis    6===Group 3===PositionNameNationalityPoints 1.Pieter de Bruyn    13 2.Heinz Ollesch    13 3.Glenn Ross    9 4.Terry Brennan    5===Group 4===PositionNameNationalityPoints 1.Wout Zijlstra    14 2.Derek Boyer    12 3.Kurt Kvikkstad    7 3.Fraser Tranter    7===Group 5===PositionNameNationalityPoints 1.Gerrit Badenhorst    14 (injured) 2.Lee Bowers    10.5 3.Ralf Ber    10.5 4.Gustavo Pujadas    5===Group 6===PositionNameNationalityPoints 1.Magnus Samuelsson    15 2.Jamie Barr    10.5 3.Wayne Price    10 4.Michael Abdullah    4.5===Group 7===PositionNameNationalityPoints 1.Berend Veneberg    13 2.László Fekete    11 3.Žydrūnas Savickas    9 4.Ken Brown    7===Group 8===PositionNameNationalityPoints 1.Torfi Ólafsson    13 2.Janne Virtanen    13 3.Phil Pfister    10 4.Alexander Matveev    0 (injured)===Group 9===PositionNameNationalityPoints 1.Mark Philippi    16 2.Evgeny Popov    11 3.Bill Lyndon    9 4.Vladimir Turchinsky    4===Group 10===PositionNameNationalityPoints 1.Jouko Ahola    15 2.Hugo Girard    12 3.Stuart Murray    7 4.Gunnar Thor    6
Final results  # Name Nationality Pts 1 Magnus Samuelsson  Sweden 73 2 Jouko Ahola  Finland 67 3 Wout Zijlstra  Netherlands 62 4 Phil Pfister  United States 51 5 Pieter de Bruyn  South Africa 46 6 Riku Kiri  Finland 26 (injured) 7 Torfi Olafsson  Iceland 19 (injured) 8 Mark Philippi  United States 18 (injured) 9 Berend Veneberg  Netherlands 9 (injured) 10 Hugo Girard  Canada 5 (injured)
References
External links *  Official site*  1998 results at Bill Henderson's Strongest Man site