Luke Bernard Stoltman was born on 22 November 1984 and is a Scottish professional strongman competitor, who won the Scotland's Strongest Man competition five times, Britain's Strongest Man 2025, Europe's Strongest Man competition two times in 2021 and 2024.
18 Facts About Luke Stoltman
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Luke Stoltman has participated in the World's Strongest Man competition nine times and has reached the finals five times.
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Luke Stoltman attended Newmore Primary School and Invergordon Academy and was an avid footballer in his early years before moving his focus to weight training by the age of 15 inspired by a family photo of his grandfather, a Polish war refugee, carrying a log the same size as his body.
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Luke Stoltman left school aged 16 and followed his father's footsteps into the oil industry training as a dimensional surveyor before taking his first offshore based job aged 18.
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Luke Stoltman later became more interested in the strength aspect of his training, entering, and winning his first contest, a local deadlift competition in 2011 aged 27.
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In 2013 Luke Stoltman competed in his first UK's Strongest Man, where he placed 7th.
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In 2019 Luke Stoltman took the leap into full-time training, leaving his job in the oil and gas industry to focus solely on fulfilling his potential as a world level strongman competitor.
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However with training and competition hampered by the COVID-19 outbreak, Luke Stoltman was unable to enter Europe's Strongest Man, and failed to qualify from his heat at the WSM finals.
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At the age of 36, Luke Stoltman took the title of Europe's Strongest Man and followed this amazing feat up by taking first place at the Giants Live World Tour Finals.
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In 2022 Luke Stoltman gained a podium finish at the Arnold Classic in Ohio in March, taking 3rd place behind Martin Licis and Oleksii Novikov.
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Luke Stoltman narrowly missed out on retaining his Europe's Strongest Man crown, finishing a credible second to Ukrainian WSM 2020 winner, Oleksii Novikov.
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Luke Stoltman started working with a new coach late 2023, which saw an early improvement with a 3rd place finish at the 2024 Britain's Strongest Man final, followed by winning Europe's Strongest Man for the second time.
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Luke Stoltman started the 2025 strongman season with a win at what was his twelfth year entering Britain's Strongest Man.
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Luke Stoltman is the eldest of five siblings, all of which live in and around their hometown of Invergordon close to their father, Ben.
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Luke Stoltman is a strong advocate for mental health and regularly speaks out on the topic and about how he benefitted from speaking to a therapist after the death of his mother.
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Luke Stoltman has worked as an ambassador for mental health charity Mikeysline.
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Luke Stoltman was quoted as saying he had always wanted to open his own gym to inspire others.
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Together with brother Tom, Luke has a YouTube channel, Stoltman Brothers, through which they show training and competition footage, partake in various challenges, and provide an insight to everyday life for professional strongmen athletes.