Life
Shane Flowers is an English strongman and former junior international powerlifter, from Weymouth in Dorset. He has established himself as one of his country’s best strongmen and was England’s Strongest Man in 2021! He has competed at World’s Strongest Man and reached the podium twice at Giants Live events, having finished 3rd at the 2023 Strongman Open and 2nd at Britain’s Strongest Man in 2025.
Shane combines huge deadlifting prowess with tremendous explosiveness and athleticism. His best pull is a massive 430kg and he has set multiple world records in the Sandbag Toss, which is a discipline that he seems to be unbeatable in. He has also proven himself to be one of the best stone lifters in the world. Shane and his wife Rachel have recently become parents and their son, Ronnie, is nearly a year.
Career
Incredibly, given that he seems to have been near the top of domestic competition for so long, Shane only began training for strongman during the nationwide covid lockdown. He fell out of love with powerlifting and found the wide array of challenging events in strongman to be far more appealing than his former sport’s three disciplines.
Flowers competed against 2020 Europe’s Strongest Man, Luke Richardson, in powerlifting and his time in the sport has given him a tremendous foundation of static strength. Combined with his natural speed, athleticism and size, Flowers’ rapid progression has not come as a surprise.
Managing to win England’s Strongest Man in his first full strongman contest, Shane made his debut at Britain’s Strongest Man in 2021 and finished 4th a year later. That year he also made his debut at Leeds’ First Direct Arena to face the continent’s finest at Europe’s Strongest Man, where he claimed 6th. Later that year he competed at World’s Strongest Man but was forced to withdraw from his heat through injury.
In 2023 Shane won his first international competition at the Strongman Champions League event in England. Later in the year he placed 3rd at the Strongman Open in Cardiff and produced another podium finish at the Magnús Ver Magnússon Classic in Iceland. He competed sparingly in 2024 after sustaining a biceps rupture that required surgery. Despite this he took another 4th place at Britain’s and 5th at Europe’s Strongest Man. His 2025 season began in superb style following a 2nd place finish to Luke Stoltman at Britain’s Strongest Man.
Best Title
Flowers’s first international win came at the Strongman Champions League event in Gloucester, England in August 2023. He secured a 4-point win over Scotland’s Louis Jack and good friend Kane Francis. Taking his only event win in the Atlas Stones, Shane performed consistently in all events, picking up 2nd place in the Sandbag Toss (a rare loss! And he hasn’t been beaten since) and 3rd in the Viking Walk.
Competition Results
2022 World’s Strongest Man: 6th in heat
Britain’s Strongest Man: 2025 – runner-up, 2024 & 2022 – 4th place, 2021 – 7th place,
2023 – 12th place
Europe’s Strongest Man: 2024 & 2022 – 5th place, 2023 – 6th place
Giants Live Strongman Open: 2023 – 3rd place, 2022 – 8th place
2021 England’s Strongest Man: winner
Magnús Ver Magnússon Classic: 2023 – 3rd place, 2024 – 7th place
2023 Strongman Champions League, England: winner
Best Lifts
Deadlift: 430kg/948lb
Deadlift for Reps: 400kg/882lb for 3 reps
Log Lift: 170kg/375lb
Sandbag Toss: 6 in 13.65 secs (15’ bar, 6 bags ranging from 18kg/40lb – 28kg/62lb)
Nicol Stones Carry 114kg/251lb & 139kg/306lb: 22.62m
Media
If you want to follow Shane on social media, you can join his 31,000 followers on Instagram: @_shaneflowers. Shane’s performances at Giants Live events, including his excellent result at both Britain’s Strongest Man will be televised on Channel 5 during the festive period, in December. His 2024 season showings are available to watch on My5.
