On September 3, Trey Mitchell was officially announced the winner of the 2021 Shaw Classic and took home $21,000 as his prize. The strongman competition featured 16 participants and took place on August 27-28 in Estes Park, Colorado. Shaw officially released the result on his YouTube channel on September 3rd.
This is the second year of the Shaw Classic. Brian Shaw created the competition as a way to give back to strongman athletes who struggled to compete in 2020. Shaw won the first competition, which featured a prize pool of $53,900. This year, he came in second and his $15,000 prize will be evenly distributed among the other 15 competitors, according to BarBend.
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The total prize pool was $100,000, half of which was Shaw’s. “This year I am putting up $50,000 of my own money to start the prize pool for the athletes,” Shaw told Fitness Volt.
This year’s competition took place over two days and featured four events per day. For the first day, participants did a max log press, which has competitors lift a log over their heads to a full lockout and bring down on command; carried a 1,117-pound yoke; squatted a Ford Bronco (817 pounds); and tossed eight bags, which weighed from 50 to 65 pounds, over a 15-foot bar.
Day two featured a deadlift, dynamic medley, circus dumbbell for Reps, and Atlas stones.
For the medly, competitors carried two 300-pound sandbags to a loaded wheelbarrow and then pushed it (combined totaled 2,400 pounds) to a finish line. In the circus dumbbell for reps, competitors cleaned and pressed 242-pound dumbbells for as many reps as possible in 75 seconds. For the Atlas stones, competitors placed all five stones ranging from 350 to 450 pounds within 60 seconds.
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Nicknamed “Big Tex,” Trey Mitchell, this year’s winner, has been a trailblazer in strongman competitions. He won the 2021 Texas’ Strongest Man Contest and 2018 America’s Strongest Man.
