Strength athletics in Iceland

Strength athletics in Iceland refers to the participation of Icelandic competitors and holding national strongman competitions. The sport's roots have a long and ancient history going back to c. 874 – 1056, with sagas about Orm Storolfsson, Finnbogi and Grettir Ásmundarson to the 18th and 19th century traditional strongmen including Snorri Björnsson, Brynjólfur Eggertsson and Gunnar Salómonsson; all the way up to the televisation of modern strongman competitions in the late 1970s.

Iceland has held a preeminent position as a nation due to the enormous success of its competitors at international strength platforms, who between them have won myriad international strongman competitions across all governing bodies including nine World's Strongest Man titles and for holding more strongman world records than any other country hence is often regarded as 'the strongest nation of the world'.