Local club to host top-class tournament

It will start with exhilarating “best-from-five” supermatches, which will have South Africa’s top arm-wrestlers compete against one another. 

Six of them currently hold the top-10 positions. 

Two of the supermatches will be official SA top-10 rankings competitions and thus contended left and right arm by the same opponents, including Nelspruit’s own Hanco Nel defending the SA number-one ranking position. Nel has also been the SA champion in the heavyweight arm-wrestling category (110kg+) for the past three years. 

This will be followed by novice/public and pro open competitions in double-elimination format, and just as fiercely contested as the aforementioned supermatches. 

This is fast-paced, adrenalin-racing action at its best. Perhaps worthy to note is that the country has last had a supermatch derby in 2010 and this competition is guaranteed to exceed all expectations.

Nelspruit-based Arm Victors is currently one of the top arm-wrestling clubs in the country. 

Although it is a relatively young club in a relatively young sport, it has produced champions since 2008 as well as consistently achieved podium positions at the three major national events each year. 

The locally hosted competitions are always well supported from clubs from as far afield as Dundee, Polokwane, Pretoria and Bloemfontein. 

The arm-wrestlers also perform well internationally. In 2012 five South Africans competed at the World Arm Wrestling Championship in Brazil and brought back eight medals, testament to the level of commitment of the country’s sportsmen and -women. 

In order to host exciting competitions such as these, attract competitors, promote arm-wrestling as a clean, fast-paced and adrenalin-filled sport as well as provide thrilling public entertainment, Arm Victors is, however, hugely dependent on sponsorships from Lowveld businesses and would highly appreciate partial sponsorship of this upcoming event.