About

Mission

OpenStrongman is building a comprehensive, open-access database of strongman competition results spanning all federations, all divisions, and all eras - amateur and professional, US and international. Results are logged exactly as competed: weights, times, distances, reps. A consistent biomechanical event category system makes results comparable across federations and formats regardless of implement naming conventions.

All data are freely downloadable as CSV. No account, no paywall, no ads, ever. The data belongs to the community.

Vision

Most sports databases are built for fans. OpenStrongman is built for researchers. The long-term goal is a living, community-maintained dataset rigorous enough to support independent analysis - athlete development trajectories, cross-federation performance comparisons, event difficulty modeling, historical record progressions - work that cannot currently be done because no structured dataset exists to do it with.

We are not trying to be the fastest results site or the most feature-rich platform. We are trying to be the most reliable, most complete, and most open primary source the sport has ever had.

Background and novelty

Market research conducted in the fall of 2025 identified several existing platforms covering strongman results. Strongman Archives and the FitnessVolt Strongman Database both provided browse-only access to historical competition results, with the former maintained by community volunteers and the latter by a commercial media organization.^1,2 LiftingBase, a solo-built project covering international elite competitions, launched in early 2025.³ All three are browse-only destinations: none offered a downloadable, structured dataset under an open license.

That gap - a public-domain, machine-readable dataset spanning international elite and domestic amateur competition results under a consistent schema - was the basis for launching OpenStrongman in March 2026. The project is modeled explicitly on the open data philosophy of OpenPowerlifting.org and OpenWeightlifting.org, which demonstrated that open, downloadable sports datasets attract research, community contribution, and long-term value that browse-only platforms do not.^4,5

Since OpenStrongman launched, additional platforms tracking domestic amateur results have emerged, confirming broader demand for open strongman data.⁶ The scope addressed by OpenStrongman - international elite competition results, spanning all major federations, in a downloadable open dataset - remains unaddressed elsewhere.

How is data collected?

Data are researched from publicly available sources including official results pages, federation websites, and competition records, then entered manually following our open schema. We prioritize accuracy over speed: every result is verified before it's published.

Results are stored as open CSV files in a public GitHub repository, giving the data a permanent home and full version history. We are actively working toward data partnerships with federations and platforms to make collection more efficient over time. Coverage currently runs from 2020 forward across WSM, Rogue Invitational, and standalone world record events, with historical data and additional federations being added continuously.

Affiliations

OpenStrongman is an independent project and is not affiliated with any strongman federation, organization, or platform. We are not affiliated with OpenPowerlifting.org or OpenWeightlifting.org, though we share their belief that sports data should be open and freely accessible.