Spencer Tyler
Spencer Tyler is an American professional Highland games athlete from Liberty Hill, Texas.
Career
Tyler was a collegiate track and field athlete before his coach Quint Melius recommended him Highland games. He gradually excelled in the sport and became the World Highland Games Champion when he won 2019 World Highland Games Championships held in Lincoln, New Hampshire.Tyler is considered to be one of the greatest Highland games athletes ever, and is the current world record holder in the Sheaf toss with a clearance of at 2019 Chicago Highland Games, and both the and Weight throw event with distances of and respectively.
He is also the World Highland Games record holder at the Weight over bar event when he heaved the weight over in 2019. Only the all-time world record holder Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson has thrown higher.
Personal records
- Sheaf toss – over '
- Weight throw – for '
- Weight throw – for '
- Weight over bar – over '
- Discus throw – for '
- Javelin throw – for '
- Hammer throw – for
- Shot put – for ''''
Personal life