2023 Memorial Record Day
2024 OLD TIME STRONGMAN WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
By Clint Poore
This is the OFFICIAL OLD TIME STRONGMAN WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP. This is a POSTAL meet, so different countries can all compete simultaneously across the World. The OTSM Worlds will take place on December 7 in different locations on separate continents. All results will be sent in by each locations meet director and results will be tabulated ASAP! Each lifter will receive a OTSM Worlds medal and T-shirt for participating. International locations for the OTSM Worlds to be held, are in England, Australia and the USA. Other International locations may be added.
OLD TIME STRONGMAN WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP – USA LOCATION
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2024
BUFFVILLE ARENA in ALBANY, KENTUCKY
ADDRESS: 2608 BUSINESS 127 NORTH, ALBANY, KENTUCKY
This is the North American Continental location for the OTSM World Championship. All lifters from any North American nation are welcome to attend. CANADA, USA, MEXICO & all Central American countries are invited. Also, any International lifters who want to compete are invited to attend .
WEIGH-INS: 8 AM – 9:30 AM , LIFTING BEGINS AT 10:30 AM
THE 3 LIFTS: HACKENSCHMIDT FLOOR PRESS, DINNIE LIFT & INCH DUMBBELL DEADLIFT (ONE ARM, LIFTER MUST DECLARE THE ARM AND NOT CHANGE ARM DURING COMPETITION)
ENTRY DEADLINE – December 6, 2023 – email clintpoore@hotmail.com or by phone at 606-688-2600.
ENTRY FEE: None, just let me know you are attending, then have fun lifting & breaking records!
USAWA MEMBERSHIP REQUIRED: Please join the USAWA before the meet. Registration will also available at meet site if you need to join the USAWA the day of the meet. If lifting in England or Australia please pay your National Registration fee prior to the meet.
AWARDS: WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP AWARDS in EACH WEIGHT CLASS & AGE GROUP. OVERALL GRAND CHAMPION TROPHY MALE & FEMALE with Medals awarded to all competitors. T-shirts provided for all lifters, I must know your t-shirt size two weeks prior to the meet, we will have a few extra as well.
OLD TIME STRONGMAN WORLD TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP AWARD – The top 5 points total from each countries will be added together to determine the Old Time Strongman World Team Champion.
RECORD DAY – The Old Time Strongman Record Day will be on Sunday, December 8 @ 9 am. No more than 5 Record attempts, per person. Please let me know what records you will be attempting so that I can be sure I have the appropriate equipment. USAWA National Records can be set at the Record Day, if we have 3 referees present IAWA World Records may be set.
HOTEL – Baymont by Wyndham Albany
Address: 79 Soma Lane, Albany, KY 42602
Phone: (606) 387-7238
Frank Ciavattone-Hall of Fame Juggernaut
By Eric Todd
I was absolutely blessed and privileged to be asked to vouch for Frank when it came to his National Wrestling Hall of Fame nomination and ultimate induction. I am a wrestler at heart. That was my first love and my greatest. My boy Everett is now invested. Nothing I have done has prepared me for life like wrestling. So, I understand what this accolade means. There is no sport that compares in regard to the sacrifice. And Frank has sacrificed indeed.
Frank has been inducted into the Massachusetts chapter of the National Wrestling Hall Of Fame under the designation of “Medal of Courage”. This is the third Hall of Fame that I am aware of that Frank has been inducted to, but there may be more. He was inducted into the USAWA Hall of Fame in 1996 (bio found here: Frank’s HOF Bio). He was also inducted into the Massachusetts Interscholastic Wrestling Coaches Association Hall of Fame back in 2015. Please see below for Frank’s induction writeup from the “National Wrestling Hall of Fame Massachusetts Chapter 2023 Induction Ceremony & Honors Banuet” booklet. Congrats Frank. An accolade that is well deserved!
Old Time Strongman World Championship
Nationals 2004
We are working on getting national results from before we had a website recorded on the website in an effort to preserve a more complete history. This one that I am posting here is from 1998. They are all transcribed from the “Strength Journal” by Bill Clark. This was an idea of Frank Ciavattone’s and was presented at the national meeting in 2022. Enjoy a little piece of history:
By Bill Clark (From “US All-Round Weightlifting Association Strength Journal”, Vol. XV, No. 5, July
- Columbia MO. Print.)