Samson-Power

2001 Gatineau Balloon Festival Strongman

Gatineau Balloon Festival Strongman Contest 
Sept 1,2,3, 2001
Gatineau, Canada

Three days of competition, great competitors, great fun great crowd!

also see their official web site  http://www.lacybernacelle.com/

 

And The Silver Dollar Dead Lift !!
(Click Here!)

Canada's best put it to us Americans...but all in good fun.


Travis Lyndon, Mark Keshishian, Martin Brisebois, 
Dominic Filiou, Beerd Beekman, Gary Mitchell, Walt Gogola jr.,
Jessen Paulin, Steve Bourgeois,
Big Glenn Ross  Ken Brown, &  Hugo Girard
  

Scores

Name Medley Farmers Log Arm Over Arm Power Stairs Hercules Hold Atlas Stones Deadlift Hold Points
Hugo Girard 11 12 12 12 12 11 10 12 92
Travis Lyndon 12 10 10.5 11 11 12 12 9 87.5
Jessin Paulin 10 11 7.5 10 10 9 11 7 75.5
Steve Bourgeois 6 7 3 9 8 10 9 10 62
Dominic Filiou 4 9 9 6 9 8 6 5 56
Walt Gogola jr 8 4 7.5 2 3 4 8 8 44.5
Ken Brown 5 8 5 5 6 7 3 4 43
Glenn Ross 7 3 10.5 1 2 1 7 11 42.5
Martin Brisebois 9 5 1 8 7 5 4 1 40
Gary Mitchell 2 6 4 7 4 6 5 3 37
Breed Beekman 3 2 6 4 5 3 1 6 30
Mark Keshishian 1 1 2 3 1 2 2 2 14

Day One

Tire/Yoke Medley, Farmer's, Log

More Photos coming!

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The empty venue

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Mark


Steve                                                              Beerd


Dominic                                              Walt


Gary                                                          Ken


Jessen                                     Travis


Glen                             Huge-O

 

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900+lb Tire

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Farmer's 265lbs 80 meters!

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Mark             14inch log, 265lbs for reps from the ground..                 Glen

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Glen                                             Gary

Day 2

Arm Over Arm, Power Stairs, Hercules Hold

 

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Mark & Beerd

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Jason & Walt

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Big Glen & Dominic                          Huge-O and he gets the 600lb block on the first step (with the help of my shoes)   

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Travis

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Mark

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Walt                                       Gary                                       Ken

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                    Martin                                                              Steve

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                                       Dominic                                    Jessen

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Travis

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Huge-O

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Walt                            Mark                                    Ken

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Gary

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Day Three

Stones and Deadlift/car hold for time

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as you can see, the crowd was great and all the competitors took time out to walk around and sign autographs...it was like they were rock stars!

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Big Glen and Mark K...only got 2...these were the highest dam platforms!..and I thought the Indiana Boys were trying to make things hard!

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Walt "The Wooder Boy" got 4

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Beerd Beekman

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Gary Mitchell...still going strong!

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Ken Brown...still going ..even with a torn hamstring!

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This is the first time Anyone has gotten All of THESE 5 stones on These Very High platforms in a contest!

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Steve fighting with the #5 stone


Huge-O Playing to the crowd!

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Hug-O and Travis Battle it out!

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Travis gets all 5!

The Car Hold

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Mark and Beerd face off

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Big Glenn and Gary face off

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This is what stopped Glen's hold..(only if he had used straps from Samson-Power)

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Walt and Ken

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Martin and Dominic

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Steve and Jessen

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Huge-O and Travis ready for Battle

The Awards and Champaign!

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The Lyndon's

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Your Roving Reporter, Mark

Silver Dollar Dead Lift

This event was open to everyone who competed at Gatineau.

The weights started at 575lbs for a warm up, then to 825lbs, then to 1022lbs to break IFSA's current record. Next went 1062lbs then a try at 1092lbs!
It came down to Martin and Ken. Ken set the new record at 1000lb earlier this year, the Marin broke the record at the Canadian Championships with 1005.

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Walt gets 825lbs, but is out after that                     Martin psyches up for 1062

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Martin clears the ground     Now Ken Prepares for 1062....It's Up!
(but is not given the lift due to unlocked knees)                      

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Celebration!                    Nice Tattoo!                 Marin goes for 1062!

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Ken Misses 1092lbs     Marin gets 1092 off the ground, but not a good lock out

Ken Brown now officially holds the IFSA and The All Time Silver Dollar Dead Lift Record of 1062lbs.

Congratulations to Ken!...who, by the way, was competing that weekend with a torn hamstring!
...Just think what he could have done if he had two to pull with!