Magnus Magnusson
We will send you information about this and future occasions and hold you updated about the most exciting breakthroughs in science. Now you possibly can add occasions to your private schedule and participate in our live chat on selected events. In addition to his 4 World’s Strongest Man titles, Magnús was additionally runner-up in 1992 and 1993. He has additionally received the Iceland’s strongest man competitors many times and the West coast Viking (Vestfjarðavíkingurinn) of Iceland 9 occasions.
- Born in Reykjavík, he lived in Scotland for almost all his life, although he never took British citizenship.
- Their eldest son, Siggi, died in a visitors accident in 1973, when he was struck by a automobile near the Glasgow Academy taking part in fields at Anniesland, Glasgow.
- He got here to prominence as a BBC tv journalist, and was finest generally known as the presenter of the BBC television quiz programme Mastermind, which he hosted for 25 years.
- Magnusson offered the long-working quiz present Mastermind from 1972 to 1997 on BBC1.
- He decided to focus solely on strongman competition after he received the 1991 World’s Strongest Man contest.
He got here to prominence as a BBC tv journalist, and was greatest known as the presenter of the BBC tv quiz programme Mastermind, which he hosted for 25 years. He competed in a one-off occasion on the Giants Live Strongman Championship 2019 held in Wembley in opposition to fellow strongman legend Bill Kazmaier within the Hercules Hold, with the load being decreased by 20 kg on each side from what the professional athletes have been working with. Despite having not competed in a strongman occasion since 2004, Magnusson shocked the capacity crowd with a time of 101.2 seconds (1m forty one.2s), while Kazmaier might solely handle simply over 18 seconds. Magnús competed in his first strongman contest in 1985, ending third within the Iceland’s Strongest Man competitors won by Jón Páll Sigmarsson.
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He came to prominence as a BBC tv journalist and was best often known as the presenter of the BBC television quiz programme Mastermind, which he hosted for 25 years. He is also known for his well-known catchphrase “I’ve started so I’ll end”, which he mentioned whenever the time ran out whereas he was studying a question on Mastermind.
His catchphrase, which the current presenter John Humphrys has continued to make use of, was “I’ve began so I’ll finish”. Magnusson made cameo appearances as himself, hosting Mastermind in Morecambe and Wise in addition to the youngsters’s sequence Dizzy Heights and as Magnus Magnesium in The Goodies episode “Frankenfido”. ; born Magnús Sigursteinsson; 12 October 1929 – 7 January 2007) was an Icelandic-born British-based mostly journalist, translator, author, and television presenter. Born in Reykjavík, he lived in Scotland for almost all his life, though he never took British citizenship.