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Kevin Nee

American professional Strongman athlete (born 1985) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Kevin Nee
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Kevin Nee (born August 21, 1985) is an American professional Strongman athlete.

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Born in Framingham, Massachusetts, Nee began his strength training at the age of 14. As a high school student at Hopedale High School in Hopedale, Massachusetts, he began competing in the teenage level Strongman competitions. He won the teenage heavyweight division of 2002 USA Teenage Strongman.[1] Nee has competed in five of the World's Strongest Man championships. In 2005, he competed in the tournament held in Chengdu, China; at the age of 20 years and 46 days, and made history as the youngest competitor ever to have qualified to the World's Strongest Man.[2]

Nee also competed in the 2006 World's Strongest Man championship in Sanya, China, but did not make it to the final round of competition. In 2007, at the World's Strongest Man championship held in Long Beach, California, Nee finished in eighth place. He has also competed in the annual World's Strongest Man Super Series Competition at Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, Connecticut, where he finished fifth in 2006 and second in 2007.[3]

While he was still competing as an amateur strongman, Nee was featured in a 2005 episode of the MTV reality show True Life: I Want the Perfect Body 2.[4] It was in the same episode that it was mentioned he was named the Strongest Teen in the United States. In 2007, Men's Fitness magazine named him among the world's “25 Fittest Men”.[5]

The 6'2, 295-pound Nee, who has a degree in supply chain management from Arizona State University, resides in the Boston, MA area.

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Kevin Nee at Giants Live 2009: Poland
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Kevin Nee in 2010
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