Vasyl Virastyuk

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Vasyl Virastyuk, first world champion of both WSM and IFSA.

Vasyl Virastyuk is an elite professional strongman athlete from Ukraine.

Vasyl Virastyuk competed in the finals of the World's Strongest Man contest in 2003 and 2004. He finished third in 2003 behind then-defending champion Mariusz Pudzianowski and runner-up Zydrunas Savickas. The following year, Vasyl Virastyuk defeated Mariusz Pudzianowski to become the 2004 World's Strongest Man.

After this victory there was a split in the world of Strongman competition. While some of the competitors such as Virastyuk and Zydrunas Savickas have been competing for the IFSA Strongman title (with Savickas winning the title in 2005 and 2006), others such as Pudzianowski remained and competed for the Met-Rx World's Strongest Man title (with Pudzianowski winning in 2005 and Phil Pfister in 2006).

At the 2007 IFSA World Championship in Geumsan, South Korea, Vasyl defeated the 2 time IFSA World Champion Zydrunas Savickas to become the first athlete to ever win both a WSM World title and an IFSA World title.