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2023 Giants Live World Open Events Revealed — Introduction of Wrecking Ball Hold

The 2023 Giants Live World Open is set to be an exciting show of Strength, with the competition scheduled to take place on September 2nd in Cardiff, Wales. Being one of the major competitions of the season, the 2023 Giants Live World Open will be greeted with excitement, especially now as they have revealed what five events will make up the competition. This includes a brand new event, the Wrecking Ball Hold, which was never seen before in Cardiff.
The 2023 Giants Live World Open will feature 13 athletes, who will complete all five events, while an additional two athletes will take part in just the first event, the Max Deadlift. Although the Max Deadlift will be the main event, all other events will also take place on the same day. The athletes will have little chance to rest, but only the greatest competitors will prevail and fight for the title in the end.
2023 Giants Live World Open Events

Max Deadlift
Dumbbell Ladder
Wrecking Ball Hold
Load & Push
Castle Stones

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Max Deadlift
The first event of the competition will be multi-purpose, as it will also serve as a separate competition of its own. All 15 athletes will perform the Max Deadlift, while many will attempt to set a new World Record as a part of the 2023 World Deadlift Championships. However, for the 13 athletes doing the full competition, the Max Deadlift will bring them points as all other events.
Dumbbell Ladder
The second event of the 2023 Giants Live World Open will be the Dumbbell Ladder, where the athletes will have to overhead press a series of progressively heavier dumbbells with only one hand. The weights of the dumbbells are not known yet, as more testing will take place to determine what is perfect.
Wrecking Ball Hold
The newest event in the 2023 Giants Live World Open repertoire is the Wrecking Ball Hold. The athletes will climb on a custom platform and grab a bar to which a chain will be attached. That chain will be fixated to a Wrecking Ball on the other end. So, the athletes will pull the bar to lift the Wrecking Ball and hold it in a locked out position for as long as possible.
Load & Push
For the penultimate event of the competition, the athletes will load several implements into a cartwheel and then push it for a given distance. Unfortunately, the details such as weight and distance are currently not available.
Castle Stones
Like in most cases, the Castle Stones will conclude the 2023 Giants Live World Open and reveal who the winner of the competition will be. A series of Stones will be presented to the athletes who will have to lift them onto their platforms. They will start by lifting the lightest stone to the highest platform. Following that, each stone will get heavier, while the platforms will reduce in height proportionally.

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2023 Giants Live World Open & Deadlift World Championships Lineup
Note: Graham Hicks and Jamal Browner will exclusively participate in the deadlift event, while all the other athletes will compete in both the strongman and deadlift events.

Pavlo Nakonechnyy
Gavin Bilton
Luke Stoltman
Graham Hicks
Rauno Heinla
Adam Bishop
Jerry Pritchett
Konstantine Janashia
Oleksii Novikov
Evan Singleton
Ivan Makarov
Jamal Browner
Maxime Boudreault
Rob Kearney
Trey Mitchell

The stage is now set for the 2023 Giants Live World Open since both the lineup and events have been announced. However, there are still over two months left until the competition. So, the athletes have more than enough time to prepare for the events, especially now that the format of the competition has been revealed.
Published: 28 June, 2023 | 10:18 AM EDT