IHGF World Highland Games Strength Challenge Championships 2014, Satu Mare, Romania<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The 2014 IHGF World Highland Games Strength Challenge, held in at the AquaStar Spa Satu Mare, Romania in early July, added a new page in Highland Games history with a games staged in Romania for the first time. The entire event was filmed for TV, and the lineup of athletes represented a range of countries: Ivan Medimurec (Croatia); Georg \u00d6gmundsson (Iceland); Rafal Kobylarz (Poland); Al Myers (USA); Chad Ullom (USA); Alexandru Cortean (Romania); Roni Kecsk\u00e9s (Serbia); Tibor Kiss (Hungary); Tam\u00e1s Saliga (Hungary); and Johan Langhorst (Netherlands) .
Since last year\u2019s IHGF World Highland Games Strength Challenge, \u201cthe overall standard had significantly improved,\u201d Francis Brebner reported, \u201cand new contenders for this year\u2019s championships were \u00d6gmundsson, Kobylarz and Langhorst, all of whom were very impressive to see for the first time. \u201cFrom the first event on, Kobylarz took the reins, winning four of the eight events, but it was not all smooth terrain. He had to work extra hard for his victories, but in the end he claimed the championships title with a 9-point lead,\u201d said Brebner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n