--- title: Game of Thrones: The Mountain Breaks Keg Tossing Record Video description: Hafþór Júlíus "Thor" Björnsson — who plays the Mountain on Game of Thrones — broke his own world record in keg tossing. canonical: https://time.com/4456469/game-of-thrones-the-mountain-thor-bjornsson-keg-tossing/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-08-17T20:17:12.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:35:36.980Z og:title: The Mountain From Game of Thrones Break His Own World Record og:description: There's no shame in that og:url: https://time.com/4456469/game-of-thrones-the-mountain-thor-bjornsson-keg-tossing/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Mountain From Game of Thrones Break His Own World Record twitter:description: There's no shame in that twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch the Mountain From _Game of Thrones_ Break His Own World Keg Tossing Record > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Aug 17, 2016 8:17 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Aug 17, 2016 8:17 PM UTC As [Cersei Lannister’s](http://time.com/4454792/game-of-thrones-cersei-lena-headey-2/) silent but deadly bodyguard on _Game of Thrones_, the Mountain has become one of the show’s most formidable characters. And in real life, the actor who plays the zombified Gregor Clegane, [Hafþór Júlíus “Thor” Björnsson](http://time.com/4095741/mountain-game-of-thrones-ufc/), is just as able-bodied. The [Icelandic strongman](http://time.com/4182995/game-of-thrones-mountain-strongman-record/) broke his own world record in keg tossing Monday while competing at the 2016 World’s Strongest Man competition in Botswana, clearing a 23.5-foot high bar with a 33-poung keg. He had set the previous record at March’s Arnold Classic Strongman in Ohio. Watch the amazing video below. Of course, this is just the latest of Björnsson’s feats of incredible strength, as earlier this year he broke a [1,000-year-old weightlifting record](http://time.com/3695121/game-of-thrones-the-mountain-weightlifting/) by carrying a 30-foot, 1,433-pound log five steps. \[[h/t BarBend](https://barbend.com/hafthor-bjornsson-strongman-keg-toss-record/)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4456469/game-of-thrones-the-mountain-thor-bjornsson-keg-tossing/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4456469/game-of-thrones-the-mountain-thor-bjornsson-keg-tossing/"},"headline":"Watch the Mountain From Game of Thrones Break His Own World Keg Tossing Record","datePublished":"2016-08-17T20:17:12.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:35:36.980Z","description":"There's no shame in that","url":"https://time.com/4456469/game-of-thrones-the-mountain-thor-bjornsson-keg-tossing/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Sports topic","game of thrones","celebrities"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4456469/game-of-thrones-the-mountain-thor-bjornsson-keg-tossing/","name":"Watch the Mountain From Game of Thrones Break His Own World Keg Tossing Record"}}]}] ```