Angeline Berva Beats a Two-Time World's Strongest Woman at the Summit of Strength

French vegan strongwoman Angeline Berva has won the Global Strongwoman Summit of Strength in Rotherham, beating two-time under-82kg World's Strongest Woman Erin Murray of the USA by a single point.

Berva scored 29.5 points to Murray's 28.5 at the open-weight contest on Saturday, September 26, according to Fitness Volt. She won the atlas stones and the farmer's walk, tied with Murray for first in the deadlift, and was second in the overhead medley. Her weakest event was the shield carry, where she finished fourth. Murray won the u82kg world title in 2023 and 2025.

She didn't stop there. A week later Berva retained her Europe's Strongest Woman u82kg title at the Official Strongman event, with one event win and four seconds for a clear four-point margin, Great Vegan Athletes reports.

Berva went vegan in 2011, aged 17, and has never built her strength any other way. She's tired of hearing the two don't go together:

I built my physique and my performance while being vegan.

Fifteen years of plant-based training, and she is now beating the best in the world.

It's been quite a year for Berva. In March she won all five events at the Pro Strongman League European Championships, on the same day Tom Butts won the men's title in a heavier class. Last year she set an axle deadlift world record and won Europe's Strongest Woman, and we've been reporting on vegan strength athletes smashing stereotypes since 2016.

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