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AT: Alki Beach, Seattle, Washington August 18th, 2001 Reported by: J.V. Askem    The Winners Left: Women's Champion, Patty Steele-Smith Center: Heavyweight Champion, Jesse Marunde Right: Lightweight Champion, Tim Howe There were 23 contestants in this affair spread over 3 divisions!!! 10 heavyweight men (over 210 lbs), 9 lightweight men, and 4 women. The star of this show was Jesse Marunde, who easily won 5 of his 6 events in the heavyweight class. The Lightweights also put on a good show! Right down to the last second there was a three way battle between Tim Howe, defending champion Scott Hughes, and Jeff Theorell. Tim and Scott finished by tying, but Tim won by virtue of higher placings. The order of events went as follows:    Left to right: Kelly Hernandez pulls the truck. Courteney Schurman lifts the Keg. And Tamara Tennison on the Farmers Walk. Farmers Walk Patty Smith-----------38.5 sec Courteney Schurman---46.2 Kelly Hernandez------199.5 feet Tamara Tennison------103 Truck Pull Kelly Hernandez-------1 min 16.13 sec Tamara Tennison-------3 feet Courteney Schurman-----no distance Patty Smith-------------no distance Women's Tire Flip Patty Smith------------51 feet 10 inches Kelly Hernandez-------32 feet Tamara Tennison-------no distance Courteney Schurman-----no show because of injury Keg Clean and Press for reps Patty Smith-------------26 reps Kelly Hernandez--------25 Courteney Schurman-----25 Tamara Tennison--------24   Left: Lightweight, Steve Spellman Right: Heavyweight Cory St Clair Lightweight Farmers Walk   Left: Lightweight winner, Jeff Theorell shows good form with a split jerk. Right: Heavyweight, Grant Higa gets set to heft 322 lbs. . Jeff Theorell--------------237 lbs Scott Hughes-------------227 Jeff Preston---------------227 Heavyweight Log Lift Jesse Marunde------------322lbs (3 attempts) Grant Higa----------------322 (4 attempts) Arron Anderton-----------282   Left: Lightweight Scott Hughes Right: Heavyweight Gene Wainwright Lightweight Tire Flip   Left: Lightweight Doug Schurman on the seated truck pull. Right: Heavyweight Andy Medak is assisted by veteran strongman Mawr Wallace. Special hand signals had to be given to Andy because he is deaf. Tim Howe----------------25 sec Scott Hughes-------------27 Steve Spellman-----------32 Doug Schurman-----------38 Heavyweight Truck Pull Jesse Marunde-------------25.5 sec Grant Higa-----------------30.5 Cory St Clair---------------31.5 Arron Anderton------------35.5 Lightweight Keg Toss Jeff Theorell-----------------15 feet (3 way tie) Scott Hughes----------------15 Tim Howe-------------------15 Heavyweight Keg Toss Jesse Marunde---------------16 feet (2 way tie) Arron Anderton--------------16 Cory St Clair-----------------15   Left: Heavweight Jay Ball with a rough stone. Right: Tim Howe lifts the 160 lb keg for loading. Tim Howe---------------------23.4 sec Jeff Theorell-------------------24.3 Scott Hughes------------------26.6 Shawn Miller------------------26.8 Heavyweight Loading Medley Gene Wainwright----------------45 sec Jesse Marunde------------------54 Grant Higa----------------------54.6 Jay Ball-------------------------57.12 Cory St Clair--------------------1 minute The remaining five contestants were all given ties for failing the load the fifth item, the round stone. This contest started at approximately 9:30 AM and by mid day a nice crowd of approximately 500 to 1000 spectators assembled at the contest site. However, by the fifth men's event, The Keg Toss, the crowd started to drift away. The contest finished up about 8:30 PM, and the stress of such a long day definitely started show on promoter Bull Stewart and his wife Flo. I apologize if any of my suggestions added to their stress! Up front, I have to take some blame for interfering with Bull's original game plan, which was to contest all four women's events before the men's contests started! Because of my suggestion to split the women's events, to give them more rest, the continuity of the start of the contest may have been disturbed. However, this contest could have still run a lot quicker had two tires had been flipped simultaneously in two lanes. Also an extra set of farmers walk handles should have been available for two lanes on that events. As for the Keg Toss, IMO, because of the time factor, promoters should think twice about how this event will affect the fluidity of their contests. This Keg Toss event took about 2 hours and made no real difference in the overall standings. Also, I feel have to mention one of the most illogical things I've seen in a SMC! That was allowing the contestants to roll the round stone along the ground up to the truck before loading it. IMO, this really tainted the Loading Medley for the heavyweights! I've always thought that the idea behind "round" stones is to make them more difficult to lift, not easier to move across the ground. However, my hats off to both Grant Higa and Jesse Marunde for maintaining some integrity to this event by lifting and carrying the stone.  Standing left to right: Mawr Wallace with round stone, Jay Ball, Andy Medak, Jeff Preston, Jesse Marunde, Tim Howe, Aaron Anderton holding child, Scott Hughes, Todd Christiansen, Ron West. Kneeling left to right: Jeff Theorell with rough stone, Shawn Miller, Steve Spellman Special thanks to GRANT HIGA for lending his strongman implements to the promoter. Finally, there will be a video available of this
contest, and from the looks of the equipment that the crew was using it should
be professionally done. Anyone interested should contact: FINAL RESULTS Lightweight Men Heavyweight Men TO THE CABLE/ BAR GUY'S HOME PAGE
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