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Dec 2020
A Harrogate man is set to dominate TV screens over the festive period after finishing ninth at the World's Strongest Man.
Luke Richardson's result in Florida completed a remarkable year that has seen him go from novice to one of the most talked about strength athletes on the planet at the age of just 23.
Luke, a former powerlifter, only took part in his first strongman competition last year. Since then he has finished fourth at Britain's Strongest Man, won Europe's Strongest Man and is now ranked ninth in the world.
Channel 5 is due to broadcast coverage of all three events over Christmas and New Year.
It's still sinking in for Luke, who was working as a lifeguard at Starbeck Baths recently and is now a professional strongman with his own gym, multiple sponsors and almost 60,000 Instagram followers. He says:
"It's been quite a year. But I was actually a bit disappointed with my performance in the World's Strongest Man final.
"I held my own on some events but some silly mistakes on others let me down. Next year I'd like to get in the top five, then finish on the podium and then maybe win a few."
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