Background
Rob Dixon was born in York in 1964.
Rob Dixon was born in York in 1964.
Dixon, whilst competing, was living in Sand Hutton and owned the Samson and Delilah"s Fitness Centre in Haxby and in Pocklington. In 2000 he was invited to compete at the World"s Strongest Manitoba tournament, in Sun City, South Africa. He came second in his group and thereby made the final of the tournament.
However, injury forced him to retire after the second event and he placed tenth.
He made a second appearance in 2001, but in a closely fought heat he placed third, just missing out on the final. Dixon was also heavily involved in furthering the strongman career of Mark Westaby.
Westaby, of the York area also, approached Dixon after watching Dixon compete in 2002. Westaby recalled the following:
"I watched Rob and told him afterwards that I fancied giving it a go.
I’d not done any sport since the shot putt when I was at school and had been nowhere near a gym but he was stood next to an Atlas stone and said ‘if you can lift that, I’ll train you.’ lieutenant was about 150 kg but I did lieutenant" Dixon began training Westaby, who would eventually appear a number of times at the World"s Strongest Manitoba finals.
Dixon later moved to France.
