Victoria Lengthy Retires From Aggressive Strongwoman

Lengthy’s strongwoman profession was quick however dominant.

One in all strongwoman’s most dominant athletes has curtain known as her aggressive profession. Two-time Arnold Strongwoman Traditional (ASW) champion Victoria Lengthy introduced her retirement from aggressive strongwoman. Lengthy broke the information on her social media and in an interview on Laurence Shahlaei‘s Speaking Strongman YouTube present.

Lengthy’s retirement got here days after struggling a hamstring harm in the course of the Max Elephant Bar Deadlift occasion on the 2024 ASW. She confirmed that the harm comprised two tears that might require surgical restore.

I positively pictured the final contest of my strongwoman profession going a lot otherwise…..however right here we’re.

See Lengthy’s interview with Shahlaei within the video under:

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Lengthy has handled hamstring points prior to now. She had a grade two tear in her different hamstring and recovered from it with out medical intervention. Regardless of that, whereas comparatively quick, Lengthy’s aggressive profession was dominant; of seven elite contests, Lengthy received 5 of them, scored silver in her elite debut, and withdrew from her ultimate contest on account of harm.

Lengthy debuted in aggressive strongwoman in 2019 at that 12 months’s World’s Strongest Girl (WSW) contest after a profession as a bodybuilder. Lengthy completed because the runner-up on the 2019 WSW behind Donna Moore. Lengthy held the Elephant Bar Deadlift world report till Lucy Underdown eclipsed it on the 2024 ASW.

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Victoria Lengthy’s Strongwoman Profession

Per Strongman Archives, Lengthy competed within the contests under to the corresponding outcomes:

  • 2024 Arnold Strongwoman Traditionalwithdrew
  • 2023 Arnold Strongwoman Traditional — First Place
  • 2022 America’s Strongest Girl — First Place
  • 2022 Shaw Traditional Open — First Place
  • 2022 Arnold Professional Strongwoman — First Place
  • 2021 America’s Strongest Girl — First Place
  • 2019 World’s Strongest Girl — Second Place

Lengthy didn’t really feel a way of stress when she first entered aggressive strongwoman on account of being principally unfamiliar with the highest athletes on the time. When she competed towards the likes of WSW champions Donna Moore and Andrea Thompson in 2019, Lengthy didn’t know who they had been and didn’t “put them on a pedestal,” as Shahlaei put it.

Lengthy’s resolution to retire resulted from different profession alternatives in regulation enforcement and struggling a second hamstring harm. She didn’t wish to try to keep up relevancy as a Masters-division competitor. Lengthy had a five-year plan along with her coach when getting into the game and fulfilled all of it apart from how she wished to exit her final contest.

Featured picture: @onestrongb on Instagram


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