Oleksiy Novikov

ABOUT OLEKSIY NOVIKOV

Professional Ukrainian strongman most known for winning the 2020 World's Strongest Man competition. He also won Europe's Strongest Man in 2022. He shares much of his training on his novikov_strong_wsm Instagram page.

He first began competing in strongman competitions in 2016.

He was the winner of Ukraine's Strongest Man every year from 2016 to 2019. In 2022, he would go on to win Europe's Strongest Man despite having limited training due to participating in the draft for Ukraine's armed forces. He is also popular on YouTube, where he uses his self-titled channel as a place to share some of his training and power lift videos. His page has gone on to amass a following of more than 20,000 subscribers.

He was born in Kiev, Ukraine.

He is the second Ukrainian to win The World's Strongest Man competition after Vasyl Virastyuk .