--- title: 'Game of Thrones': The Mountain Competes in World's Strongest Man description: Hafthor Bjornsson is no newcomer at strength competitions canonical: https://time.com/3835889/the-mountain-strongest-man/ author: Justin Worland article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-04-26T22:33:11.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:19:08.609Z og:title: 'The Mountain' From 'Game of Thrones' Wants to Be the World's Strongest Man og:description: Hafthor Bjornsson is no newcomer at strength competitions og:url: https://time.com/3835889/the-mountain-strongest-man/ 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' Wants to Be the World's Strongest Man twitter:description: Hafthor Bjornsson is no newcomer at strength competitions twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # 'The Mountain' From _Game of Thrones_ Wants to Be the World's Strongest Man  by [Justin Worland](https://time.com/author/justin-worland/)  ## Justin Worland Senior Correspondent Apr 26, 2015 10:33 PM UTC  by [Justin Worland](https://time.com/author/justin-worland/)  ## Justin Worland Senior Correspondent Apr 26, 2015 10:33 PM UTC It turns out Hafthor Bjornsson’s role as “The Mountain” on _Game of Thrones_ isn’t the only time he gets to display his extraordinary feats of strength. The 440-pound Icelandic giant is currently [competing](http://www.theworldsstrongestman.com/worlds-strongest-man-2015-malaysia-schedule/) in Malaysia to earn the title of World’s Strongest Man. Bjornsson is no newcomer when it comes to strength competitions. He finished second in the World’s Strongest Man competition last year and, according to his [profile](http://www.strongman.org/athletes/hafthor-bjornsson/) on strongman.org, he excels at truck pulling. From throwing “Norse Hammers” to carrrying enormous tires, many of Bjornsson’s feats of strengths at this year’s competition have been captured on video. _Read next:_ [Game of Thrones _Piracy Reaches Record High_](http://time.com/3831288/game-of-thrones-piracy/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3835889/the-mountain-strongest-man/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3835889/the-mountain-strongest-man/"},"headline":"'The Mountain' From Game of Thrones Wants to Be the World's Strongest Man","datePublished":"2015-04-26T22:33:11.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:19:08.609Z","description":"He finished second in the competition last year","url":"https://time.com/3835889/the-mountain-strongest-man/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","celebrity"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Justin Worland","jobTitle":"Senior Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/justin-worland/"}],"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/3835889/the-mountain-strongest-man/","name":"'The Mountain' From Game of Thrones Wants to Be the World's Strongest Man"}}]}] ```