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Luke Stoltman, known as "The Highland Oak", in conversation with Bruce MacGregor during 2024 Inverness Highland Games. This was part of the events in the big top, where popular Scottish musician and presenter Bruce MacGregor was running a live music show during the day.

Luke Stoltman is the eldest of the Stoltman brothers and a Scottish professional strongman competitor. He has won Scotland’s Strongest Man competition five times and Europe’s Strongest Man competition twice in 2021 and 2024. He has participated in the World's Strongest Man competition nine times and has reached the finals five times.

Luke Bernard Stoltman was born in Invergordon in the Scottish Highlands in 1984. From a young age he had a passion for fitness and strength training, inspired by a family photo of his grandfather, a Polish war refugee, carrying a log the same size as his body.

Luke began weight training from the age of 15 and participated in the ‘Highlands Strongest Man’ in 2012, held in a gym car park in Inverness, where he placed first. In 2013 Luke competed in his first Britain’s Strongest Man and went on to secure 5 consecutive Scotland’s Strongest Man titles from 2013 – 2017.

He entered the World’s Strongest Man in 2016 and in 2019 quit his job in the oil and gas industry to fulfill his potential as a World level strongman competitor. He qualified in his first year as a professional, finishing 7th overall alongside younger brother Tom, who placed 5th and they were the first brothers to ever reach the final at Worlds Strongest Man, gaining them the title ‘The World’s Strongest Brothers.