Strongman rocks up... for new world record!
ONE of the strongest men on the planet has set a modern-day world record for an epic trial of strength first completed more than 150 years ago.
Scottish strongman Donald Dinnie became a legend when he carried two giant boulders across the Potarch Bridge in Aberdeenshire in 1860.
The rocks – which have a combined weight of 733lb – have been known ever since as the Dinnie Stones.
Now four-time World’s Strongest Man Brian Shaw from Colorado has earned a place in the modern record books by lifting the boulders and carrying them 11ft 6½in on April 18 this year.
Shaw, 37, alongside American strongmen Nick Best and Robert Oberst and Brit Eddie ‘The Beast’ Hall – World’s Strongest Man in 2017 – embarked on the challenge for a TV series for the History Channel. The Strongest Man In History, which will be broadcast in the UK later this year, will see the men attempt a range of heavy-lifting feats around the world.
Shaw successfully beat the previous Dinnie Stones modern record of 8ft 2in set by Australian Pete Seddon on April 13.
Skoti Collins and Liz Stirling, the Scottish producers of the series, were delighted to bring the international athletes to their native country to film part of the series.
The pair are also behind The Grand Tour and Dynamo.
Miss Stirling said: ‘Donald Dinnie was so famous in his day.’ Mr Collins said: ‘The legend goes that Donald Dinnie walked the bridge carrying the stones.’
Dinnie, born near Aboyne, Aberdeenshire, was chosen to be ‘the face of Irn-Bru’ in 1903.