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Khalil Oghab "The Iron man from Iran"

While I certainly have my share of prejudices, having grown up in the United States through Iran hostage crisis, I am pretty impressed by Khalil Obhab.  I learned about him through a Facebook post announcing the death of Steve Cotter with an image of a poster.


Being a fan of teeth lifting and performing strongmen, I had to dig a bit deeper.  According to the Wikipedia article, he was born March 23, 1924 and died April 20, 2023.  In addition to being a performing strongman, he also acted in seven films between 1964 and 1971.  The Poster is from Gerry Cottle's British Circus which came to North America in 1976.  He performed in 37 different countries, having emigrated to Ireland in 1971, living in Italy and going home to Iran in 1991.


The linked video shows some of his feats of strength which included lifting an elephant (with essentially a hand and thigh bar from a raised platform), bending, being run over by a truck, pulling vehicles, leg pressing a plank with 8-10 men sitting on it, Indian club juggling, picking up kettlebells with his teeth and tossing them behind his back and incredibly picking what appears to be a heavy lift bar loaded with kettlebells while also pressing two kettlebells overhead.


Of course I am going to have to try this now.



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