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Antonio Barichievich (October 10, 1925 - September 7, 2003), was a Croatian-Canadian strongman, professional wrestler, and eccentric, better known by his ring name The Great Antonio. He was a popular local figure in Montreal until his death.

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The Great Antonio was a strongman born in 1925 in Croatia as Anton Baricevic. He was quite an eccentric figure, so it's not a wonder that there are many anecdotes about him - like the one where he was able to uproot trees using a cable around his neck, at the age of 12!

After he moved to Canada in 1945, Anton started training and officially began his strongman career in late 1940's. His first notable record was in 1952 when he managed to pull 433-ton train for almost 20 meters. This feat of strength granted him a place in Guinness Book of World Records where his name was signed once again a couple of years later, after pulling four city buses loaded with passengers.

Antonio Barichievich was pretty massive, as he stood 6'4 and weighed 465 pounds. In 1970's, he performed all around the world as a strongman and even made an appearance in popular TV shows. The Great Antonio was also involved in wrestling and almost won the Stampede North American Heavyweight Championship, but the title bout, held in Calgary, ended in a public riot. Turns out he wasn't very popular among fans, partly due to his appearance.

One of the most unique & eccentric strongmen figures died in 2003 from a heart attack.

A couple of interesting facts about The Great Antonio:

He could eat 25 chickens at one sitting

Later at his life, he could only be reached by leaving a message at the Dunkin' Donuts in Rosemont, Canada

He change the story of his background at least twice - first he claimed he wasn't Croatian, but Italian. After that, he used to tell everyone that he is actually an extraterrestrials.

Despite his size and appearance, Antonio had a beautiful and soft voice. He loved to sing.

If you are a big fan of oldtime strongmen like I am, check out these books and get a better idea of how to train like one.

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The Great Antonio left legacy of two Guinness records one was one of the most unique characters in old strongmen history.

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Antonio Barichievich (October 10, 1925 - September 7, 2003), was a Croatian-Canadian strongman, professional wrestler, and eccentric, better known by his ring name The Great Antonio. He was a popular local figure in Montreal until his death.

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​Antonio Barichievich (the Great Antonio) | The Canadian Encyclopedia

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Antonio Barichievich (October 10, 1925 - September 7, 2003), was a Croatian-Canadian strongman, professional wrestler, and eccentric, better known by his ring name The Great Antonio. He was a popular local figure in Montreal until his death.

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Dans les entretiens menés au fil des ans, Barichievich a donné diverses réponses, parfois en disant qu'il était d'origine croate ou même né de parents immigrés sibériens.
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Antonio Barichievich (October 10, 1925 - September 7, 2003), was a Croatian-Canadian strongman, professional wrestler, and eccentric, better known by his ring name The Great Antonio. He was a popular local figure in Montreal until his death.

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Il a joué les roles dans les films comme "Quest For Fire" un Français Canadienne film

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Il est dans le livre guinness des records pour tirer un train de 433 tonnes sur un disstance de 19.8m dans 1956.

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Grâce au don généreux de l'auteure et illustratrice Élise Gravel, la collection du Musée McCord s'est récemment enrichie de nombreux documents textuels et iconographiques ayant appartenu à Anton Barichievich, mieux connu sous le nom du Grand Antonio.

Né en 1925 et d'origine européenne, ce Samson des temps modernes arrive au Canada à l'âge de 20 ans. Conscient de ses capacités peu communes, il prend part à différentes épreuves entre hommes forts et figure, dès 1952, dans Le livre Guinness des records pour avoir tiré sur une voie ferrée un train de 433 tonnes sur une distance de 19,8 m. En 1956, il traîne une voiture Chevrolet attachée à ses cheveux et en 1960, il performe en tirant quatre autobus remplis de passagers sur la rue Sainte-Catherine à Montréal. Il connaît la gloire dans les années 1960 et 1970, période durant laquelle il mène en parallèle une carrière de lutteur professionnel. Il voyage à travers le monde et particulièrement au Japon, où il attire les foules en se battant contre trois, quatre ou cinq hommes à la fois.

Mesurant 1,93 m, pesant 225 kg et chaussant des souliers de pointure 28, le Grand Antonio impressionne en outre par son apparence atypique : vêtements amples, barbe hirsute et cheveux longs négligés. Avec son allure de " gentil géant ", il fait plusieurs apparitions dans différentes émissions populaires comme le Tonight Show de Johnny Carson et obtient quelques rôles au cinéma, notamment dans le succès international La guerre du feu (1981), un film franco-canadien réalisé par Jean-Jacques Annaud.

Dans les années 1990, " l'homme le plus fort du monde ", comme il plaît encore à se proclamer, sombre peu à peu dans l'oubli. Le Grand Antonio fréquente le quartier Rosemont et les stations de métro du centre-ville où il vend pour quelques dollars des photographies autographiées et des photomontages de ses anciens exploits. Il décède d'un arrêt cardiaque en 2003, à l'âge de 77 ans. Comme on ne lui connaît aucune famille, c'est un don anonyme à l'organisme Jeunesse au Soleil qui permet de couvrir le coût de son enterrement. Le jour de ses funérailles, environ 3 000 personnes viennent lui rendre un dernier hommage.

Du triomphe à l'indigence, le Grand Antonio a connu un parcours qui frappe l'imaginaire collectif. S'ajoutant au cumul des nombreux hommes forts qu'a connus le Québec depuis l'époque de Louis Cyr, il se distingue néanmoins par sa forte personnalité et son caractère marginal. Les archives de ce personnage haut en couleur nous permettent de retracer sa carrière et ses exploits. On y trouve de la correspondance, des contrats d'embauche, des cartes professionnelles, ainsi que des programmes et des affiches de spectacles de lutte sur lesquels figurent les noms des différents lutteurs ayant partagé le ring avec lui, de Pat O'Connor à Maurice " Mad Dog " Vachon, en passant par Buddy Rogers et Édouard Carpentier. Plus de 500 photographies et de nombreuses coupures de presse, extrêmement riches en renseignements, montrent aussi que le Grand Antonio était " un expert " des relations publiques. Pendant quatre décennies, il a usé de sa notoriété et infiltré le jet-set national et international; on peut le voir en compagnie des plus grandes vedettes de l'heure, telles que Maurice Richard, Michael Jackson, Clint Eastwood, Sophia Loren, Luciano Pavarotti, Liza Minnelli, Alain Delon, Jean-Paul Belmondo et Tom Jones.

Par le biais de cette nouvelle acquisition, le Musée McCord veille à préserver et à célébrer la mémoire de cette grande légende montréalaise. Le fonds d'archives du Grand Antonio sera prochainement mis à la disposition des chercheurs de tous les horizons par l'entremise de notre Centre d'archives et de documentation.
Eugénie Marcil, juillet 2017

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Les archives personnelles du Grand Antonio - Musée McCord

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Grâce au don généreux de l'auteure et illustratrice Élise Gravel, la collection du Musée McCord s'est récemment enrichie de nombreux documents textuels et iconographiques ayant appartenu à Anton Barichievich, mieux connu sous le nom du Grand Antonio. Né en 1925 et d'origine européenne, ce Samson des temps modernes arrive au Canada à l'âge de 20 ans.

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Le Grand Antonio est mort en train d'acheter un billet de lotterie
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Pulling buses and lifting horses with his bare hands, the Great Antonio carried on the great tradition of Quebec strongmen, inking his name into the record books for his feats of strength.

Once a celebrity who made headlines around the world, he lived in poverty and died Sunday night as he was buying a lottery ticket. He was 77.

Long-bearded, dishevelled and chatting in broken English or French to anyone who would talk to him on the streets, he was also one of Montreal's most famous eccentrics.

Once, he was a fixture on the downtown streets, occasionally roping himself to a passing city bus and hauling it several blocks for the sheer fun of it. No one dared stop him.

From the 1950s to the 1980s, the Great Antonio -- his real name was Antonio Barichievich -- carved himself a place in the Guinness world records books, pursued a wrestling career that took him from Tokyo to New York and had a stab at acting, appearing in movies such as Quest For Fire.

For most of the last two decades, however, he cut a more poignant figure, a 400-pound mammoth of a man, dreaming of past glories.

His beard greyer and his pace slower, he was reduced to trying to hawk pencils or old photos of his younger self to anyone who would chat with him on the streets, in the subway or at his "office," an east-end Dunkin' Donuts franchise where he was a regular.

He said he was born Oct. 10, 1925, in the small Yugoslav village of Brevna, the eldest of the four children of a lumberjack whose family originally hailed from Siberia.

Other times, he claimed to be an extraterrestrial.

He came to Canada in 1946 and though he never learned to read and spoke rudimentary English, soon became a celebrity thanks to his ability to pull a loaded train-wagon or four loaded buses all at once.

He was proud of having appeared on The Tonight Show nine times, hoisting host Johnny Carson up in his arms.

Of those years, he proudly kept photos of himself hobnobbing with the likes of Michael Jackson, Sophia Loren or Muhammad Ali that he carried in a bag as he ambled around town.

The Great Antonio was instantly recognizable thanks to his hulkish build, size-28 feet and ankle-length hair, which he braided into dreadlocks wrapped in rope.

He was once married but in recent years lived alone in an unfurnished apartment.

He died of a heart attack Sunday evening in a local grocery store.

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Great Antonio dies in poverty in Montreal

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Pulling buses and lifting horses with his bare hands, the Great Antonio carried on the great tradition of Quebec strongmen, inking his name into the record books for his feats of strength.

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Il ete un lutteur professional  et un acteur.
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