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Hafþór began his athletic career as a basketball player, playing as a center with a bodyweight of around 105 kg (231 lb). Hafþór is also a chess player with a Blitz rating of 800 and loves playing video games. Hafþór also has two sisters: Bryndís Björg Björnsdóttir and Hafdís Lind Björnsdóttir. Hafþór's grandfather Reynir Ásgeirsson is also very tall and just as broad across the chest. His imposing height of 205 cm (6 ft 9 in) is credited to his 203 cm (6 ft 8 in) father Björn þor Reynisson and his mother Ragnheiður Juliusdottir, who is also of tall stature. A lanky teenager, he gained size and strength through daily exercise, combining basic movements ( push-ups, chin-ups and sit-ups), with working his grandfather's farm during summers and lifting natural stones. He was enthusiastic about sports and played soccer and got into gymnastics before discovering his passion for basketball in eighth grade. He received his primary education from Grundaskóli and then Hjallaskóli hill school, but due to very high levels of energy as a child, he had difficulty sitting in a classroom or concentrating in his studies. When he was 11 years old, his family moved to Kópavogur, Iceland. Hafþór was born on 26 November 1988 in Reykjavík, Iceland.

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He is often simply referred to as 'Thor' or 'The Mountain' as the latter has been closely identified with that character due to his own massive size.

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Hafþór has also appeared in television as an actor, portraying Ser Gregor Clegane in the HBO series Game of Thrones for five seasons.

With 30 international competition wins, he is the third most decorated strongman in history behind Lithuania's Žydrūnas Savickas and Poland's Mariusz Pudzianowski, and also due to his brute strength and dominance across every single strongman event, many analysts and strongman experts regard Hafþór as 'the strongest man to have ever lived'.

He is the first and only person to have won the Arnold Strongman Classic, the Europe's Strongest Man and the World's Strongest Man competitions in the same calendar year, and holds numerous Strongman titles from multiple strength federations, including multiple world records.

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Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson ( Icelandic: transliterated as Hafthor in English, born 26 November 1988), is an Icelandic professional strongman, who is widely regarded as one of the greatest strength athletes of all time.