Worlds strongest gay

He was one of 13 men competing in six feats of strength over the course of two days in Melbourne, Australia. And so we started dating a few weeks after that.

Rob Kearney Competing Against : Rob Kearney is an American Professional Strongman as well as the first and only openly gay professional strongman in the world

And then finally, being your true self, this weight gets lifted off your shoulders. It was inhe says, he fell in love. Look at the guy with the rainbow mohawk! It was that I genuinely got so much stronger after I came out.

That was my main initiation for a conversation. That makes this a lot of fun. According to official reports, Kearney was on fire right from the start, winning the first two feats. Kearney lifted five times his weight and walked it across the competition floor in about 13 seconds, more than four seconds faster than anyone else.

And 2: we were way too selfish to put on a wedding for everybody else. Then, for a short time in Maythe couple split. The Arnold Pro Strongman Australia competition is one of several qualifying events leading up to the Arnold Strongman Classic, the world championship event held each year in Columbus, Ohio.

Rob Kearney YouTube: Rob decided to compete in the Heavyweight class where he took 1st

Last December, he was invited to share his coming out story with middle school students in Deerfield, Mass. But then on October 20 of is when I came out to the world. He won the Giants Live North American Open in [3] and the Arnold International World Series Australia in [1] He is also a four time qualifier for the World's Strongest Man competition, and a three time participant in the Arnold Strongman Classic.

[4] He is also a two-time American log lift record holder, with a. After this week, though, Kearney is done with strongman events, deciding to retire after the World’s Strongest Man competition in Myrtle Beach, S.C. Rob Kearney, otherwise known as the "world's strongest gay," talks competing in Strongman while openly gay and advocating for LGBTQ+ people in the fitness industry.

Kearney first adopted his now-trademark rainbow mohawk look in June Kearney has been representing ever sincewhen he came out as gay with a social media post that made headlines. So, why did Aleixo reach out?

But they reconciled, and started making wedding plans. That bold step out of the closet followed a decade of refusing to acknowledge his truth. As it turns out, the couple found a way to combine competition and tying the knot in their own distinctive way, in one of the most beautiful places on earth.

He completed the 1,pound yoke in A yoke is a staple of strongmen competitions, in which contestants pick up a large metal frame with a crossbar, stacked with weights on all four corners and, with the crossbar resting on their backs, carry the yoke over a long distance as quickly as they can.

He also won the log press, lifting kilograms — more than pounds. Rob Kearney is a retired American professional strongman competitor. Which prompts the question: did he swipe right?