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- In days when feats of strongmen aroused intense interest, Cyr became a legend. There was no formal sport of weightlifting; competitions were held as challenge matches, and at these he was never defeated. He won the "weight-lifting" championship of North America in 1885 and the "world championship" in 1892.
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Louis Cyr (French pronunciation: [lwi siʁ]; born Cyprien-Noé Cyr; October 10, 1863 – November 10, 1912) was a French Canadian strongman with a career spanning the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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James Woycke credited Cyr’s remarkable strength as an adult to his genetic heritage. Born in St. Cyprien, south of Montreal, in 1863,Cyr’s ancestry included farm workers and lumbermen.(1) His mother, Philomène Berger Cyr, was said to have been a strong woman in her own right. Christened Noé-Cyprien Cyr (he later changed his name to Louis) the young...
From 1881 to 1886, Cyr largely lived the life of a vagabond strongman, competing in strength shows and picking up seasonal work where possible. Predating Ronnie Coleman’s claim to the world’s scariest police officer, Cyr was part of the Montreal police force from 1883 to 1885. To put the oddity of Cyr’s employment with the police into context, the ...
The period 1881 to 1886 was very much a testing ground for Cyr. He built his strength and won the admiration of many but it was unlikely that many in the United States or Great Britain knew Cyr’s name at this time. Cyr’s fortunes changed dramatically in 1886 when Cyr teamed up with Richard K. Fox of the National Police Gazette.(9) Impressed with Cy...
Cyr’s story did not, sadly, have a happy ending. Achieving a jaw dropping backlift in 1896, Cyr retired from the lifting game soon after. Plagued by a series of health concerns, which some have linked to overeating and inactivity, Cyr was diagnosed with Bright’s Disease in the early 1900s.(17)In layman’s terms, Cyr had acute kidney inflammation whi...
Apr 2, 2008 · In days when feats of strongmen aroused intense interest, Cyr became a legend. There was no formal sport of weightlifting; competitions were held as challenge matches, and at these he was never defeated. He won the "weight-lifting" championship of North America in 1885 and the "world championship" in 1892.
He would name it, as La Presse reported on 7 March 1908, the “feat of the horse”: with his feet braced against the barn’s threshold, he resisted the pull of a horse by holding its harness with both hands.
- Paul Ohl
- Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 14
Within that period, Cyr set several unofficial records, the most famous being his 4,133-pound (1,874 ¾ kg) back lift made in Boston, at Austin and Stone's Museum on May 27, 1895. The platform weighed approximately 500 pounds (226 ¾ kg) and the 18 men Placed on it reportedly added a total weight of 3,800 pounds (1723 ¾ kg).
Oct 17, 2019 · Louis Cyr’s Early Life It was in October 1863 that Louis Cyr first saw the light of day in Saint-Cyprien (Napierville), Lower Canada. Christened Cyprien-Noé Cyr, he was the second of his parent’s 17 children.
Dec 25, 2019 · Louis Cyr was the first truly professional urban Quebec athlete – an urban strongman. His promoter offered $5,000 to anyone who could beat him. Many tried; all failed.
