Olga Liashchuk

[1][2][3] Liashchuk credits her father with giving her a love for sports, including buying her a bicycle at a young age.

[5] At Kyiv graduate school, she met her coach Mikhail Geraskevych who trained her for tug of war world games in Taiwan.

Liashchuk was invited to the Ukrainian national rugby team but a knee injury stopped her from pursuing the sport.

Liashchuk entered the 2016 Arnold Amateur Strongwoman World Championships in Columbus, Ohio and emerged 3rd place.

Taking part in mainstream strongwoman competitions in ensuing years, she won the World's Strongest Woman in Daytona Beach, Florida, the Strongest Woman in the World in Las Vegas, Nevada[7] and became the first and only athlete to win the Arnold Strongwoman Classic in Columbus, Ohio two consecutive times.