Background
Bill Lyndon was born in Melbourne, Australia.
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Education
He was educated at high school in Melbourne and went on to business college, afterwards becoming a structural engineer
Career
A keen sportsman, he played a variety of sports including Australian Rules Football, American Football, Rugby League, cycling and from the age of 23, powerlifting. In terms of strongman competition his international career began after he was invited to Scotland for the 1993 World Muscle Power Classic. Some of Bill"s competitors in this contest included: Gary Taylor, Manfred Hoeberl, Wayne Price, Magnus Ver Magnusson (referred to as "Maggie" by Lyndon) and Forbes Cowan.
Although Lyndon did not feature among the contenders he found the experience of being around such renowned strongmen a rewarding one.
The 1993 World"s Strongest Manitoba competition was held in Orange, France and Lyndon was considered for the last spot but Harold "Iron Bear" Collins was chosen that year. The following year, another triumph in Australia"s Strongest Manitoba secured Lyndon a spot at the 1994 World"s Strongest Manitoba contest, but failed to make the finals.
Lyndon went on to compete at the 1996 World"s Strongest Manitoba, 1997 World"s Strongest Manitoba and 1998 World"s Strongest Manitoba qualifying heats, but he was never able to qualify for the finals. Lyndon joined this and as such was banned by Institut de Formation en Soins Animaliers. Lyndon"s decision was swayed by the fact that he was not getting enough competitions via Institut de Formation en Soins Animaliers. In 1998 he had only competed in Hungary and Morocco, whereas the AFSA offered five competitions in the first year.
In the late 1990s Bill looked towards his own Australian based sports promotion company.
He formed "Spartan Warriors Australia" and began advertising extensively in magazines and at public events, He later started a website called Aussie Power designed to cover and feature many diverse athletes from strongman, powerlifters, olympic lifters, throwers covering Australia and the Asia Pacific region. Squat - 265 kg (583 lbs)
Bench press - 212 kg (4664 lbs)
Deadlift - 310 kg (682 lbs)
Military press - 145 kg (319 lbs).
Achievements
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Lyndon is a 5 time winner of Australia"s Strongest Manitoba, and a 4 time entrant to the World"s Strongest Manitoba competition. His rugby league led him to spend two seasons in Perth and as a powerlifter he won four national powerlifting titles. Nathan Jones won the Australian title in 1995 and got the place at 1995 World"s Strongest Manitoba contest, where his arm was broken in an armwrestling match in the heats with 1998 World"s Strongest Manitoba champion Magnus Samuelsson.
