Australian former strongman compe*or (born 1964)

Bill Lyndon (born 30 January 1964) is an Australian former strongman compe*or. Lyndon is a 5-time winner of Australia's Strongest Man, and a 4-time entrant to the World's Strongest Man compe*ion.

Contents

• 1 Early years
• 2 Strongman career
• 3 Retirement
• 4 Personal Records
• 5 References

Early years

Bill Lyndon was born in Melbourne, Australia. He was one of seven children having five sisters and a brother. He was educated at high school in Melbourne and went on to business college, afterwards becoming a structural engineer. A keen sportsman, he played a variety of sports including Australian Rules Football, American Football, Rugby league, cycling and from the age of 23, powerlifting. His rugby league led him to spend two seasons in Perth and as a powerlifter he won four national powerlifting *les.

Strongman career

In terms of strongman compe*ion his international career began after he was invited to Scotland for the 1993 World Muscle Power Cl*ic. Some of Bill's compe*ors in this contest included: Gary Taylor, Manfred Hoeberl, Wayne Price, Magnus Ver Magnusson (referred to as "Maggie" by Lyndon) and Forbes Cowan. Although Lyndon did not feature among the contenders he found the experience of being around such renowned strongmen a rewarding one. The 1993 World's Strongest Man compe*ion was held in Orange, France and Lyndon was considered for the last spot but Harold "Iron Bear" Collins was chosen that year. The following year, another triumph in Australia's Strongest Man secured Lyndon a spot at the 1994 World's Strongest Man contest, but failed to make the finals. Nathan Jones won the Australian *le in 1995 and got the place at 1995 World's Strongest Man contest, where his arm was broken in an armwrestling match in the heats with 1998 World's Strongest Man champion Magnus Samuelsson. Lyndon went on to compete at the 1996 World's Strongest Man, 1997 World's Strongest Man and 1998 World's Strongest Man qualifying heats, but he was never able to qualify for the finals. In 1999, when the IFSA was still running WSM, Manfred Hoeberl set up a rival AFSA organization. Lyndon joined this and as such was banned by IFSA. Lyndon's decision was swayed by the fact that he was not getting enough compe*ions via IFSA. In 1998 he had only competed in Hungary and Morocco, whereas the AFSA offered five compe*ions in the first year.

Retirement

In the late 1990s Bill looked towards his own Australian based sports promotion company. He formed 'Spartan Warriors Australia' and began advertising extensively in magazines and at public events, He later started a website called Aussie Power designed to cover and feature many diverse athletes from strongman, powerlifters, olympic lifters, throwers covering Australia and the Asia Pacific region.

Personal Records

• Squat - 265:kg (583:lbs.)
• Bench press - 212:kg (466.4:lbs.)
• Deadlift - 310:kg (682:lbs.)
• Military press - 145:kg (319:lbs.)

References