American professional Strongman athlete (born 1985)

Kevin Nee (born August 21, 1985) is an American professional Strongman athlete, who in 2007, at age 21, was the youngest person ever to reach the finals in the World's Strongest Man.

Biography

Born in Framingham, M*achusetts, Nee began his strength training at the age of 14. As a high school student at Hopedale High School in Hopedale, M*achusetts, he began competing in the teenage level Strongman compe*ions. He won the teenage heavyweight division of 2002 USA Teenage Strongman. Nee has competed in five of the World's Strongest Man championships. In 2005, he competed in the tournament held in Chengdu, China; at the age of 20, he made history as the youngest compe*or ever to compete in this annual sports event.

Nee also competed in the 2006 World's Strongest Man championship in Sanya, China, but did not make it to the final round of compe*ion. In 2007, at the World's Strongest Man championship held in Long Beach, California, Nee finished in eighth place. He has also competed in the annual World's Strongest Man Super Series Compe*ion at Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, Connecticut, where he finished fifth in 2006 and second in 2007.

While he was still competing as an amateur strongman, Nee was featured in a 2005 episode of the MTV reality show True Life: I Want the Perfect Body 2. It was in the same episode that it was mentioned he was named the Strongest Teen in the United States. In 2007, Men's Fitness magazine named him among the world's “25 Fittest Men”.

The 6'2, 295-pound Nee, who has a degree in supply chain management from Arizona State University, resides in the Boston, MA area.

Compe*ion record

• 2005
  • 7. - Super Series 2005: Mohegan Sun
  • 9. - Pan-American Strongman 2005
• 2006
  • 7. - FitExpo Strongman 2006
  • 7. - Ironman Strongman 2006
  • 5. - Super Series 2006: Mohegan Sun
  • 4. - America's Strongest Man 2006
  • 7. - World Strongman Cup Federation 2006: Grodzisk Mazowiecki

Kevin Nee at Giants Live 2009: Poland

• 2007
  • 5. - Polish Grand Prix
  • 2. - All-American Strongman Challenge 2007
  • 2. - Super Series 2007: Mohegan Sun
  • 6. - Super Series 2007: Venice Beach
  • 4. - World Strongman Cup Federation 2007: Dartford
  • 8. - World's Strongest Man 2007, United States
• 2008
  • 7. - Super Series 2008: New York
  • 5. - Super Series 2008: Viking Power Challenge
• 2009
  • 5. - All-American Strongman Challenge 2009
  • 5. - Giants Live 2009: Stavanger
  • 11. - Super Series 2009: Bucharest
  • 4. - Giants Live 2009: Malbork
• 2010
  • 10. - Strongman Champions League 2010 Ireland
• 2011
  • 3. - Asian World Cup

Kevin Nee in 2010

References