Trey Mitchell Units Stone Over Bar File in Occasion Debut at 2023 Rogue File Breakers

“Large Thicket” set the benchmark with a file future opponents will chase.

Written by Chris Colucci Final up to date on March 5, 2023

On Sunday, March 5, 2023, the ultimate day of the Arnold Sports activities Competition in Columbus, OH, power athletes competed within the Rogue File Breakers sequence after the Arnold Strongman Classic concluded the day prior. The ultimate competitors targeted solely on breaking information in specialised occasions fairly than merely incomes factors to rise above fellow athletes.

In its first look at a Rogue File Breakers occasion, Trey Mitchell set the Stone Over Bar file with a dominant five-rep efficiency. Rivals had two minutes to elevate a 460-pound (209-kilogram) stone with out the help of “cheesy” for improved grip. Arnold Strongman Basic winner Mitchell Hooper, who tried the Stone Over Bar previous to Mitchell, achieved a single repetition.

Mitchell’s record-setting efficiency earned him a $5,000 prize — his second bonus award of the day after breaking his personal Ahead Maintain file from 2022. Through the Ahead Maintain, Mitchell, once more, beat Hooper’s efficiency in the identical occasion.

Trey Mitchell’s record-setting feats of power wrap up an in any other case profitable weekend for the two-time Shaw Basic winner (2021, 2022). Mitchell positioned 4th within the 2023 Arnold Strongman Basic, an enchancment from his seventh place achievement within the 2022 version of the competition.

On the primary day of the Arnold Strongman Basic, Mitchell gained the Austrian Oak Log Elevate occasion. Mitchell displayed phenomenal overhead urgent powering by hoisting the 195-kilogram (430-pound) log for 4 repetitions. In a attainable coincidence, Hooper as soon as once more positioned simply behind Mitchell within the log elevate occasion by finishing solely three repetitions with the identical weight.

Whether or not the recurring sample of besting Hooper was probability or a possible foreshadowing of the approaching aggressive season, it’s clear that Trey Mitchell seems to be headed into the 2023 strongman season able to proceed a robust output.