Martin Wildauer

{{Infobox sportsperson

| name = Martin Wildauer

| residence = Langkampfen, Austria

| other_names = The Deadlift Kid

| image = Martin Wildauer (cropped).jpg

| caption = Martin Wildauer in 2015

| birth_name = Martin Marco Peter Wildauer

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1987|11|27|df=y}}

| birth_place = {{flagicon|AUT}} Kufstein, Austria

| website =

| sport = Strongman competitor

| height = {{height|ft=6|in=3}}

| weight = {{convert|145|kg|lb}}

| show-medals = yes

| medaltemplates =

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Martin Wildauer (born 27 November 1987){{cite web|url=http://www.theworldsstrongestman.com/martin_wildauer.php |title=Official Home of the World's Strongest Man Competition |accessdate=2010-01-16 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100209063633/http://www.theworldsstrongestman.com/martin_wildauer.php |archivedate=9 February 2010 }} is an Austrian strongman competitor and entrant to the World's Strongest Man competition. He is a competitor of the well-known Strongman Champions League and the Giants Live competitions. Martin is the current world record holder in the Bavarian stonelift{{cite web|url=https://strengthrecord.com/strongman-world-records/#S1 |title=STRENGTH RECORD, Section 01 - Deadlifts |website=www.strengthrecord.com |access-date=9 April 2025}} and was known for his deadlifting.

Biography

Martin was born in Kufstein, Tirol in Austria on 27 November 1987. He was a sports enthusiast even as a child and at the age of 10 started kickboxing. After winning some national competitions in Austria after two years he began boxing but due to school commitments he found he did not have the time to commit to boxing. With the time he did have he began weight training and although his parents tried to encourage this further by buying him weights at home he found that the best environment for his progress was the gym.

A meeting with a powerlifter introduced him to deadlifting and squatting and by the age of 15 he was deadlifting 200 kg. He began to compete at the age of 16 years and soon began to set records, thus far having set over 40 new national records. He moved into strength athletics at nineteen, winning his first competition, a qualifier for the Austrian nationals. He then placed 5th at the Austrian nationals, improving this to third the following year. In the same year he won the Austrian Winter Giants competition. In 2009 a second place at the Strongman Fibo classic, behind Travis Ortmayer, qualified him for the Strongman Champions League. At his inaugural outing in the league in Serbia, he won the car deadlift and came 5th overall. He went on to compete at the next Champions league meeting in Finland, where he set a new official world record in the car deadlift and came 3rd overall. This in turn got him an invite to the pinnacle of strongman, World's Strongest Man. In what was deemed the "group of death" which also contained Žydrūnas Savickas and Brian Shaw, he did not manage to qualify for the final. In 2009 he won the Austria's Strongest Man title.

Martin won the 2010 Austrian Giants competition{{Cite web | url=http://www.ironmind.com/ironmind/opencms/Articles/2010/Dec/Martin_Wildauer_Wins_Austrian_Giant_and_Looks_Toward_WSM.html | title=Martin Wildauer Wins Austrian Giant, Looks Toward WSM}} and 2014 MHP Strongman Champions League. In 2015, returning from an Achilles tendon injury, Martin won the Löwenbraukeller Starkbierfest traditional stone lifting competition in Munich, Germany{{cite web|url =https://ironmind.com/news/Martin-Wildauer-Returns-to-Competition|title =Martin Wildauer win the traditional stonelifting competition in Munich, Germany|first =Randall J.|last =Strossen|website =IronMind Enterprises, Inc.|date =March 31, 2015}} and broke a twenty-five year old Bavarian stonelifting world record.

He was trained by the renowned German strongman Heinz Ollesch.{{Cite web |url=http://www.moosbummerl.com/allerlei/wildauer_martin_26022009en.php |title=Martin Wildauer: Interview Englisch |access-date=16 January 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090503001552/http://www.moosbummerl.com/allerlei/wildauer_martin_26022009en.php |archive-date=3 May 2009 |url-status=dead }}

Personal Records

During competitions

Deadlift (with suit and straps) – {{convert|435|kg|lb|abbr=on|0|}} (2014 Europe's Strongest Man)
Deadlift for reps (with suit and straps) – {{convert|350|kg|lb|abbr=on|0|}} x 10 reps (2014 SCL Romania)
Log press – {{convert|170|kg|lb|abbr=on|0|}} (2014 SCL FIBO)
Axle press (for reps) – {{convert|150|kg|lb|abbr=on|0|}} x 7 reps (2014 SCL Poland)
Bavarian Stonelift – {{convert|350|kg|lb|abbr=on|0|}} for 100 cm (2010 FIBO Strongman ClassX) (World Record)
Frame carry (with straps) – {{convert|300|kg|lb|abbr=on|0|}} 40m course in 14.91 seconds (2014 SCL Hungary) (World Record){{cite web|url=https://strengthrecord.com/strongman-world-records/#S10 |title=STRENGTH RECORD, Section 10 - Arm carries |website=www.strengthrecord.com |access-date=11 April 2025}}
Power stairs (3 x {{convert|225-275|kg|lb|abbr=on|0|}} duck walks / total of 15 steps) – 39.44 seconds (2014 SCL Estonia) (World Record){{cite web|url=https://strengthrecord.com/strongman-world-records/#S12 |title=STRENGTH RECORD, Section 12 - Stairs & walks |website=www.strengthrecord.com |access-date=11 April 2025}}
Weight over bar – {{convert|25.5|kg|lb|abbr=on|0|}} over {{convert|5.60|m|ftin}} (2013 SCL Serbia)
Arm Over Arm Truck pull – {{convert|16000|kg|lb|abbr=on|0|}} for 20 meters - 49.13 seconds (World Record)

During training

Squat – {{convert|380|kg|lb|abbr=on|0|}}
Bench press – {{convert|210|kg|lb|abbr=on|0|}} (Raw)
Max Atlas stone – {{convert|200|kg|lb|abbr=on|0|}} x 4 times over a 4 ft bar

Competition Record

2004
1. – Austrian Nationals Powerlifting
3. – Tyrol Competition Powerlifting Open
3. – Bavaria Cup – Deadlift
2005
1. – Austrian Nationals Powerlifting Juniors
2. – Bavaria Cup – Deadlift
2. – Austrian Nationals Powerlifting Open
3. – Tyrol Competition Powerlifting Open
2. – Tyrol Competition Powerlifting – Bench Press Open
2006
3. – Tyrol Competition Powerlifting Open
1. – Golden Barbell Classic in Austria
2. – Bavarian Stonelift in Bonbruck, Germany
2. – International Bavarian Stonelift in Feldkirchen, Germany
2. – Bavarian Stonelift in Bonbruck, Germany
2007
1. – MoosBummerl-Cup Bavarian Stonelift, Germany
1. – Bavaria Cup – Deadlift
1. – CWA 4-Country Competition in Graz, Austria
8. – IFSA Team WM, Ukraine
1. – Austria's Strongest Man (Austrian Summer Giants – Qualification)
5. – Austria's Strongest Man (Austrian Summer Giants)
1. – International Bavarian Stonelift in Feldkirchen, Germany
2008
1. – Austrian Winter Giants
1. – Austrian Records Day in Obertrum
4. – IFSA Team WM, Ukraine
2. – International Competition in Serbia
2. – CWA 4-Country Competition in Graz, Austria
1. – International Bavarian Stonelift in Feldkirchen, Germany
1. – Austria's Strongest Man (Austrian Summer Giants – Qualification)
3. – Austria's Strongest Man (Austrian Summer Giants)
2. – Day of Power in Fohnsdorf in Austria
2. – Tyrol Competition Powerlifting Open
2. – Team Competition Austria vs. Poland
2009
2. – Strongman Fibo classic
5. – Strongman Champions League 2009: Subotica
3. – Strongman Champions League 2009: Ideapark
1. – Bavarian Stonelift HebAuf, Germany
1. – Bavarian Stonelift Klosterlechfeld, Germany
8. – Strongman Champions League 2009: Slovakia
1. – Austria's Strongest Man (Austrian Summer Giants)
1. – International Competition in Salzburg, Austria
1. – Eisenstrassen Giants, Austria
Q. – 2009 World's Strongest Man
4. – Strongman Champions League 2009: Spain
9. – Strongman Champions League 2009: London
2010
1. – Bavarian Stonelift – Löwenbräukeller in Munich
5. – Strongman Champions League 2010: FIBO Strongman Classic – Germany
6. – Strongman Champions League 2010: Slovakia
1. – Austrian Winter Giants
2011
10. – Strongman Champions League 2011: Lapland-Iceman
2. – Austria's King of Overhead
3. – Strongman Champions League 2011: FIBO Strongman Classic – Germany
4. – Strongman Champions League 2011: Serbia
10. – Strongman Champions League 2011: Holland
1. – Bavarian Stonelift in Grafing, Germany
1. – Austria's Strongest Man (Austrian Summer Giants)
1. – Giants Live 2011: Giants Live Finland
Q. – 2011 World's Strongest Man
1. – Austrian Winter Giants
2012
6. – Strongman Champions League 2011: Sarajevo-Final of 2011
7. – Strongman Champions League 2012: ICEMAN in Finland
1. – Bavarian Stonelift – Löwenbräukeller in Munich
4. – Strongman Champions League 2012: Fibo Germany
6. – Strongman Champions League 2012: Serbia
1. – Austria's Strongest Man (Austrian Summer Giants)
injured – Strongman Champions League 2012: Holland
injured – Strongman Champions League 2012: Finland
7. – Strongman Champions League 2012: Poland
1. – International Competition in Salzburg, Austria
Q. – 2012 World's Strongest Man
2013
1. – Bavarian Stonelift – Löwenbräukeller in Munich
7. – Strongman Champions League 2013: FIBO Germany
2. – Strongman Champions League 2013: Serbia
9. – Strongman Champions League 2013: Latvia
8. – Strongman Champions League 2013: Czech Republic
1. – Austria's Strongest Man (Austrian Summer Giants)
1. – International Germany-Cup – Weko-Cup in Germany
1. – Bavarian Stonelift – Garmisch-Partenkirchen
6. – Giants Live Poland
Q. – 2013 World's Strongest Man
1. – Eisenstrassen Giants Team Competition, Austria
3. – Strongman Champions League 2013: Slowakia
5. – Strongman Champions League 2013: Poland
2014
12. – 2014 World's Strongest Man
2. – Strongman Champions League 2014: FIBO Germany
1. – Bavarian Stonelift – Löwenbräukeller in Munich
2. – International King of Overhead
1. – Eisenhart 2014 – Best Deadlifter 400 kg raw
3. – Strongman Champions League 2014: Serbia
4. – Strongman Champions League 2014: Finland
9. – Strongman Champions League 2014: Holland
3. – Strongman Champions League 2014: Latvia
1. – Strongman Champions League 2014: Portugal
2. – Strongman Champions League 2014: Croatia
2. – Strongman Champions League 2014: Poland
3. – World Deadlift Championship in Leeds – 435kg
6. – Europe's Strongest Man in Leeds
1. – Austria's Strongest Man in Obertrum, Austria
4. – Strongman Champions League 2014: Hungary
1. – Eisenstrassen Giants Team Competition, Austria
6. – Strongman Champions League 2014: Sambia
3 – Strongman Champions League 2014: Romania
4 – Strongman Champions League 2014: Savickas Classic Lithuania
2 – Strongman Champions League 2014: Estonia
1. – WORLDCHAMPION SCL 2014

References

External links

[https://web.archive.org/web/20100125044819/http://www.wildauer-martin.at/ Martin Wildauer – official site]

Category:Austrian strength athletes

Category:1987 births

Category:Living people

Category:People from Kufstein

Category:Austrian powerlifters

Category:Sportspeople from Tyrol (federal state)