He first competed in the World's Strongest Man in 2011, placing sixth. He won gold at the Arnold Strongman Classic in 2018, 20. He won Europe's Strongest Man in 2014, a feat he repeated in 2015, 2017, 2018, and 2019. Hafþór won the Strongest Man in Iceland event in 2010, and Iceland's Strongest Man in 2011. He subsequently began his strongman career. He helped FSu to promotion from Division I to the Premier League but his career was cut short in 2008 due to a recurrent ankle injury. He transferred to Premier League side KR in 2006 before returning to FSu in 2007. He also is a former professional basketball player.īorn in Reykjavík, Hafþór began his basketball career in 2004 with Division I team Breiðablik, moving to FSu in 2005. He played Gregor 'The Mountain' Clegane in the HBO series Game of Thrones for five seasons.

He is the first person to have won the Arnold Strongman Classic, Europe's Strongest Man and World's Strongest Man in the same calendar year. Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson ( Icelandic: ( listen) in English transliterated as Hafthor born 26 November 1988) is an Icelandic professional strongman and actor.

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