Grant Anderson (Highland games)

Grant Anderson
Born	Dundee, Scotland
Occupation	Highland Games competitor, Strongman, Olympic Weightlifting, Town planner
Height	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Weight	290 lb (130 kg)

Competition record
weightlifting
Representing  Scotland
Commonwealth Games
	1970 - Super Heavyweight - Combined
Highland Games
Representing  Scotland
World Highland Games Championships
Champion	World Highland Games Championships 1980
Champion	World Highland Games Championships 1982
USA Highland Games Championships - Santa Rosa
Champion	1979
Champion	1981
Champion	1982
Champion	1983
Champion	1984

Grant Anderson is a former weightlifter and Highland Games competitor from Scotland. He won a bronze medal at the Commonwealth Games in 1970 in the heavyweight class of the weightlifting but was more prominent as a Highland Games competitor, in which capacity he won the inaugural World Highland Games Championships in 1980 in Los Angeles.

Born in Dundee, Anderson was well educated and trained to become a town planner. As an amateur athlete he excelled in field athletics and strength-based sports and specialised in weightlifting. As a weightlifter he competed in the 1970 Commonwealth Games in the superheavyweight class, the first time that class had been introduced to the games, and won the bronze medal. He then began to compete as a Highland Games specialist against his namesake, but no relation, Bill Anderson. In 1979 he competed in the first ever Britain's Strongest Man, won by Geoff Capes, nominally as a well-known name on the Highland Games circuit than for his prowess as a weightlifter. The following year, in 1980, he won the inaugural World Highland Games Championships and came third in that event in 1981. In 1982 he won it a second time in Prestonpans, Scotland, underlying his status. In 1983 he broke Bill Anderson's fourteen-year-old record in the 22 lb hammer throw with a distance of 123 feet 8.5 inches (37.706 m).

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