Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson

Icelandic strongman and actor

Date of Birth: 26-Nov-1988

Place of Birth: Iceland

Profession: strongman, basketball player, television actor, film actor, powerlifter

Nationality: Iceland

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

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About Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson

  • Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson (Icelandic: ['haf?our 'ju?lij?s 'pjœr?s??n] (listen); often transliterated as Hafthor; born 26 November 1988) is an Icelandic professional strongman and actor.
  • He is the first person to have won the Arnold Strongman Classic, Europe's Strongest Man and World's Strongest Man in the same calendar year.
  • He played Gregor "The Mountain" Clegane in the HBO series Game of Thrones for five seasons.
  • He also is a former professional basketball player. Born in Reykjavík, Hafþór began his basketball career in 2004 with Division I team Breiðablik, moving to FSu in 2005.
  • He transferred to Premier League side KR in 2006 before returning to FSu in 2007.
  • He helped FSu to promotion from Division I to the Premier League but his career was cut short in 2008 due to a recurrent ankle injury.
  • He subsequently began his strongman career. Hafþór won the Strongest Man in Iceland event in 2010, and won Iceland's Strongest Man in 2011.
  • He won Europe's Strongest Man in 2014, a feat he repeated in 2015, 2017, 2018, and 2019.
  • He won silver at the 2017 Arnold Strongman Classic, improving to gold in 2018 and 2019.
  • He competed in his first World's Strongest Man in 2011, placing sixth.
  • He won three bronze and three silver medals in his next six attempts before being crowned champion in 2018.

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