Martin Wildauer


Martin Wildauer is an Austrian strongman. He is an entrant to the World's Strongest Man as well as a well-known figure in Strongman Champions League and the Giants Live franchises.
Wildauer is the current world record holder in the Bavarian stonelift and was known for his deadlifting.

Early life

Wildauer 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.

Career

A meeting with a powerlifter introduced Wildauer to deadlifting and squatting, and by the age of 15 he was deadlifting. He began to compete at the age of 16 years and soon began to set records, thus far having set over 40 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 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 Strongman Champions League competition in Finland, where he set a new world record in the car deadlift and came 3rd overall. This in turn got him an invite to the 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.
Wildauer won the 2010 Austrian Giants competition and 2014 MHP Strongman Champions League. In 2014 he reached his static strength peak and deadlifted raw at the Eisenhart Black Deadlift Championships in Bavaria and broke Hans Strobl's championship record, on his way to become the Eisenhart deadlift champion. At the inaugural 2014 World Deadlift Championships he deadlifted, winning third place, and his lift still remains the Austrian national deadlift record.
In 2015, returning from an Achilles tendon injury, he won the Löwenbraukeller Starkbierfest traditional stone lifting competition in Munich, Germany and broke the twenty-five year old Bavarian stonelifting world record.
He was trained by the German strongman Heinz Ollesch.

Personal records

During competitions
  • Equipped Deadlift –
  • Raw Deadlift –
  • Deadlift for reps – x 10 reps
  • Log press –
  • Axle press – x 7 reps
  • Bavarian Stonelift – for 100 cm
  • Frame carry – 40m course in 14.91 seconds
  • Power stairs – 39.44 seconds
  • Weight over bar – over
  • Arm Over Arm Truck pull – for 20 meters - 49.13 seconds
During training