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IFBB Juniors & Masters World Amateur Bodybuilding, Fitness, Body Fitness and Wheelchair Bodybuilding Championships

2009 IFBB WORLD JUNIORS AND MASTERS CHAMPIONSHIPS
BIALYSTOK, POLAND – NOVEMBER 13th – 16th, 2009

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NEW CATEGORIES, NEW RECORDS, NEW STARS
by Andrew Michalak
It seems that the world economy has not so big influence on bodybuilding and fitness world: despite the global crisis more and more enthusiasts of healthy lifestyle appear on the stages of the most prestigious IFBB international events. After the World Championships in Como and Doha, Bialystok was the next proof. The city is not so magnificent place like both predecessors but also attracted the record number of countries (44) and athletes (246) from all 6 continents. Together with delegates, coaches and extra delegates, over 400 people had to be accommodated and it was necessary to book the second hotel beside the official Golebiewski Hotel . All participants first had to arrive to the Warsaw Airport and then were taken by buses, cars and vans to Bialystok, located 200 km far from Warsaw. This logistic challenge was solved almost perfectly.
Top IFBB officials arrived a day or two prior to the Championships to prepare everything in the best possible way and… see some interesting places. Dr. Rafael Santonja, well-known for his historical passion, decided to visit… Adolf Hitler’s Headquarter "Wolf's Lair" near Ketrzyn, where Claus von Stauffenberg in league with other conspirators failed in an attempt to assassinate Hitler on July 20, 1944. This facility still remains very impressive.
After these adventures, all IFBB officials met in the luxury Golebiewski Hotel to discuss the Championships details and the schedule. The weigh-in and measurements were run also at the hotel, on the small stage of the entertaining hall. The whole procedure took few hours, as new teams were still coming from the airport and, as usual, was full of drama, as a couple of athletes were overweight and tried to lose hundreds of grams of their bodyweight during the permitted time of 30 minutes. Some of them were successful, some not. Due to the bigger number of masters classic bodybuilding athletes, IFBB decided to open two age divisions: 40-50 years old and over 50. This raised the number of categories to unbelievable 22 at this contest.
With this record number of competitors, prejudging was divided into two sessions: morning and afternoon. The same with the finals, which needed almost 9 hours to be completed. Something must be done with this marathon and few concepts are discussed in the IFBB. Maybe, one extra day will be added to these championships or some categories will be moved to the other world championships.
JUNIORS – OUR PHYSIQUE SPORTS FUTURE
Nine juniors categories attracted 77 athletes. Among them was an extraordinary couple of twins: Oksana and Maksim Orobets from Ukraine. Both won gold medals: Oksana in women’s fitness, Maksim – in men’s fitness. Both are trained by their mother Antonina Orobets. They live in Cherkassy, a city in Central Ukraine, located on the bank of the Dnieper River. It was a real pleasure to watch them onstage, as they presented refined routines and perfectly prepared bodies. With these medals they finished their juniors performances and next year will have to compete against seniors.
The short fitness class was dominated by Russian girls: Svetlana Yurkova (from the famous Eugene Koltun’s “Antey” Club) and Victoria Udod from the Siberian city of Omsk. Both were almost tied and they over passed the current European champion Laura Cupsa of Romania.
Men’s bodybuilding categories were the most popular and even elimination round was needed to select semifinalists in the heavyweight class, over 75 kg. The lightweight, up to 75 kg, was dominated by the Egyptian bodybuilder Abdel El-Sayed, student from Cairo, who defended the world title won a year ago in Pilsen. What’s interesting, the next two medals went to Barbados (Laron Gibson) and South Africa (Tyren Fortuin), who placed ahead of athletes from Poland, Slovakia and Czech Republic. It’s the best evidence of the changes in the bodybuilding map of the world.
In the heavyweight, over 75 kg, Germany brought the next “wonderful boy” after the 2007 world overall champion Daniel Hill. His name is Roman Fritz. Later on he also won the overall junior bodybuilding title. Marvelous body lines and proportions made him good candidate for medals in the senior’s categories, as he will move to this group of age next year. Two bodybuilders ran a very tough battle for silver medal: current European champion Szymon Lada (Poland) and Arab champion Mohamed Ahmed (Egypt). Lada was clearly better in the semifinals (9:18) but lost a bit of muscle sharpness till the finals and Ahmed over passed him by one point.
Two Czech bodybuilders: Lukas Topinka and Milan Sadek ran a very close battle for gold medal in junior classic bodybuilding open category. Sadek was a very demanding challenger (they were tied in the second round) but finally Topinka managed to defend the title won in 2008, earning two-point advantage in the routine round. It was his last junior competition.
And finally, junior women’s bodyfitness. In short class, up to 163 cm, fantastic combat of the former world champion Elina Gook from Eugene Koltun’s “school” and current European champion Jana Kolbaska, trained but not-less-famous Slovak national coach Dr. Milan Cizek. Despite being still juniors, both girls were very successful at the recent World Women’s Championships in Como, where they placed second (Gook) and third (Kolbaska) in the 158 cm class. Now it was a small “get back” match. Both young stars presented similar, low-fat body quality and hardness, so the “total package” was a decisive factor. Gook is a long-leg, impressive V-taper torso girl, while Kolbaska is more compact body athlete. Maybe, she would need bigger lats to win against Gook, so she placed second.
The opposite situation was in the tall class: two-time world champion Eva Svackova (Czech Republic) and 2008 bronze medal winner Natalia Gacka (Poland) failed and were over passed by two new stars: Radmilla Alieva (Russia) and Bakkan Rikke (Norway). Svackova and Gacka made the similar mistake: they came too massive (legs) and too smooth compared to Alieva and Rikke, who presented harder and better toned bodies.
AMAZING MASTERS
Afternoon block of masters categories gathered 160 matured athletes. There were two women’s open categories and three different age groups of men’s categories. Thirty seven masters women was a new record of participation in this group. Many top stars were seen among nineteen bodyfitness athletes and some of them even didn’t enter the top ten (Carina Isaksson, Uta Kohler, Slawomira Zemkova). UK’s Shalmieno Paper made the biggest progress, moving up from the 9th place in 2008 to the 5th position now. Dagmar Simmen (Switzerland) maintained her 3rd place. Second place went to a “newcomer” in this age group, current European women’s champion Renata Jablonska (Poland). And Spanish star and 2009 European Masters runner-up Paloma Parra advanced to the top position, showing the best combination of body quality and body lines.
Even more exciting rivalry took place in women’s master bodybuilding. The top two of the 2008 World Masters Championships: Violett Schwarz (Germany) and Marina Nikotina (Russia) were challenged by the 2009 world women’s champion Simone Linay (Germany) and bronze medal winner Elena Stasiukyniene (Lithuania). And what happened? Violett Schwarz defended the title, winning over the current world champion! And it was not a gift from the judges. Violett showed the top hardness and separation and nobody could “touch” her. Lianay had to accept the 2nd place and it was her only silver medal in 2009 as she won “golds” at both European and World Women’s Championships. Stasiukyniene placed 3rd in the first two rounds but lost the medal by one point in the routine round. All of them presented an amazing body condition.
Men’s masters classic bodybuilding was a new division recently accepted by the IFBB. Due to the big number of participants (24) IFBB Judges Committee chairman Pawel Filleborn proposed to divide them into two age groups: 40-49 and over 50 and this suggestion was accepted by the IFBB President. New categories, new names. There were no “big names” with longer competitive history but nicely shaped men’s athletes with good body quality.
Norwegian bodybuilder Frank Vallee won the first world title in the younger group and Czech competitor Frantisek David was the best among the older athletes. Third place winner Jan Wyduch, 60, of Poland was the oldest classic bodybuilder. He is famous of doing 62 pull-ups in 60 seconds.
Masters men’s bodybuilding started with two impressive victories of the Spanish champions. First, Miguel Lopez dominated the 70 kg category, leaving Carlo Capucci (Italy) and Henryk Hryszkiewicz (Poland) at the 2nd and 3rd places, the same they won in 2008. And Tomasz Blaziak, the 4th place winner at the recent World Men’s in Doha, Qatar, finished 4th in Bialystok as well.
In the 80 kg division, Leonardo Carballo from Navarra, finished 1st, ahead of the former World Men’s Championships finalists: Yassein El-Toukhy (Egypt) and Valerii Koptenko (Ukraine).
Christos Taranazis (formerly Greece, now Germany) has had over 10-year long competitive history but he won the gold medal for the first time. The 90 kg category was full of the former champions. Adel El Bassiouny (silver medal) is the 4-time Mediterranean champion, Ernst Zimmermann (bronze medal) won the same position in 2008, Dennis Giust was the 4th place winner at the Men’s Worlds, Pedro Villa took the 1999 European Championships title, Jose Rebolo was the 2008 world masters champion and Jose Cano was the 1999 European Championships runner-up and 2008 world masters runner-up. Extremely tough category as all champions were in top conditions.
Similar situation in the heaviest category, over 90 kg. Three-time world men’s champion and 2008 world masters champion Ahmed Hamouda (Egypt) was considered as a favorite but he was surprised by the… Ukrainian national coach Vadym Mytryushyn, who first won the 2009 European masters title and now grasped the world masters title, showing beautifully harmonized muscularity and deeply separated muscles. His quality was then confirmed by the overall title at these Championships. Hamouda finished 2nd, ahead of the 2007 world masters overall champion Anatolii Kudlay (Ukraine), new Russian athlete Andrey Pugachev and 2005 European and world masters champion Wolfgang Klotz (Germany), who won his first continental medal in Bialystok in 2005.
Older masters, age 50-59, battled in two bodyweight categories: up to 80 kg and over 80 kg. The lighter class was dominated by the Muscle Mag journalist Dave Goodin, who easily dethroned the 2008 world champion Valter Minetto (Italy), after placing 8th at the 2009 Men’s Worlds in Doha. Dave has been competing for over 27 years! Dave proved that he can not only write about bodybuilding but also can do bodybuilding at the highest international level.
Many former medal winners participated in the next category, over 80 kg. Wieslaw Kruk (Poland) already had all other colors of medals but not gold. Antonio Vergiani (Italy) was 2007 European and World Masters runner-up, Wolfgang Schober (Austria) won silver medal at the 2009 European Masters and Waldemar Nol (Poland) was a 2004 world masters champion. Only one could win and this time it was Kruk, displaying very low bodyfat level and rock-hard muscles. He was followed by Vergiani, Schober and Nol.
As many as four former world champions appeared in the oldest category, over 60, and it was the longest line-up in the history of this class, with 11 athletes. The competitors shuffled from round to round. Bernard Cooper (UK), who won the first round, dropped to the 3rd position in the finals. Ivan Horacek (Czech Republic) advanced from the 5th place in the semifinals to the 2nd position and needed only one point to be the winner. Wieslaw Czerski (Poland) gradually improved his position, emerging as a winner at the end of the finals. He and two other master champions from Poland (Jan Wyduch and Waldemar Nol) participated in the first Polish National Championships in 1977. After more than 30 years of regular weight training and competing they won the IFBB Worlds medals. What a determination and persistence! And when you see Czerski in the “Back double biceps” pose, you will not believe that 61 years old person can have so good quality muscles.

2008 world champion Manuel Valbuena, 66, was the oldest competitor at these Championships and received a special trophy.
And at the end a very special celebration: the first official IFBB Wheelchair Bodybuilding championships. Following the expectations of the world bodybuilding family, which includes wheelchair bodybuilders, IFBB decided to start official competition in this category. Bialystok has passed to the history, organizing the first IFBB World Wheelchair Bodybuilding Championships. Nine wheelchair bodybuilding pioneers from 7 countries came to Bialystok to compete for the first IFBB medals. In my opinion, the upper body muscularity and quality showed by wheelchair champions was unexpectedly high and we can only imagine what will be in the future. Daniel Smith (UK) won the first world title, followed by Stefano Rametta (Italy) and Abdul Bukhari, who came from remote India.

Now IFBB expects that wheelchair bodybuilding will be gradually introducing to the programs of the continental and national championships worldwide.
These Championships were the second IFBB top event held in Bialystok, after the 2005 European Juniors and Masters. The atmosphere of this contest was shortly summarized in the opening speech of the IFBB President, Dr. Rafael Santonja, who declared – “We love Bialystok, we love Poland!”.

All pictures by Pawel Kleineder

OPENING CEREMONY

Parade of Nations.

IFBB President Dr. Rafael SANTONJA declares the Championships open!

Bialystok City President Mr. Tadeusz TRUSKOLASKI with the IFBB Commemorative Plate presented to him by the IFBB President Dr. Rafael SANTONJA (right) and IFBB Vice-President Mr. Albert BUSEK (left).

General sponsor of the Championships Mr. Antoni PIEKUT (President of the Yuniversal Podlaski Construction Company) with the IFBB Gold Medal presented to him by the IFBB President Dr. Rafael SANTONIA (second from right); IFBB Vice-President Albert BUSEK (left) and IFBB Judges Committee Chairman Pawel FILLEBORN (right).

Bialystok City Council Chairman Mr. Wlodzimierz KUSAK with the IFBB Award presented to him by the IFBB President Dr. Rafael SANTONIA (second from right); IFBB Vice-President Albert BUSEK (left) and IFBB Judges Committee Chairman Pawel FILLEBORN (right).

Organizing Committee Chairman Mr. Arkadius LESZCZYNSKI with the IFBB with the IFBB Diamond Service Award presented to him by the IFBB President Dr. Rafael SANTONIA (second from right); IFBB Vice-President Albert BUSEK (left) and IFBB Judges Committee Chairman Pawel FILLEBORN (right).

Former fitness champion and co-organizer of these Championships Dr. Joanna ZAPOLSKA with the IFBB Achievement Award presented to her by the IFBB President Dr. Rafael SANTONIA (second from right); IFBB Vice-President Albert BUSEK (left) and IFBB Judges Committee Chairman Pawel FILLEBORN (right).

Polish Federation officials awarded with the IFBB Silver Medal (from L to R): Bogdan SZCZOTKA; Jerzy SZYMANSKI; Leszek MICHALSKI; Violetta PRYLOWSKA and Bogdan KSZUBA with the IFBB President Dr. Rafael SANTONJA and IFBB Vice-President Albert BUSEK.

Polish Federation officials awarded with the IFBB Bronze Medal (from L to R): Katarzyna MATELLA and Arkadius KEMPINSKI with the IFBB President Dr. Rafael SANTONJA; Polish Federation President Pawel FILLEBORN and IFBB Vice-President Albert BUSEK.

JUNIOR WOMEN’S FITNESS UP TO 163 CM

Junior women’s fitness up to 163 cm medal winners (from L to R): Victoria UDOD (2nd place); Svetlana YURKOVA (1st place); Laura CUPSA (3rd place).

Junior women’s fitness up to 163 cm: 2009 IFBB world champion Svetlana YURKOVA (Russia).

Svetlana YURKOVA in her routine.

JUNIOR WOMEN’S FITNESS OVER 163 CM

Junior women’s fitness over 163 cm medal winners (from L to R): Maria STUDENKINA (2nd place); Oksana OROBETS (1st place); Nikoletta RESCH (3rd place).

Junior women’s fitness over 163 cm: 2009 IFBB world champion Oksana OROBETS (Ukraine).

Oksana OROBETS in her routine.

JUNIOR WOMEN’S FITNESS OVERALL

Junior women’s fitness overall champion Svetlana YURKOVA (Russia) congratulated by the IFBB President Dr. Rafael SANTONJA (left) and IFBB Judges Committee Chairman Pawel FILLEBORN (left).

JUNIOR MEN’S FITNESS OPEN

Junior men’s fitness medal winners (from L to R): Martynas MALAKAUSKAS (2nd place); Maksym OROBETS (1st place); Lukas TREFIL (3rd place).

Junior men’s fitness open class: 2009 IFBB world champion Maksym OROBETS (Ukraine).

Maksym OROBETS in his routine

JUNIOR WOMEN’S BODYFITNESS UP TO 163 CM

Junior women’s bodyfitness up to 163 cm medal winners (from L to R): Jana KOLBASKA (2nd place); Elina GOOK (1st place); Tereza NAVRAKLOVA (3rd place).

Junior women’s bodyfitness up to 163 cm: 2009 IFBB world champion Elina GOOK (Russia) with her trainer Eugene KOLTUN.

JUNIOR WOMEN’S BODYFITNESS OVER 163 CM

Junior women’s bodyfitness over 163 cm medal winners (from L to R): Rikke EKRAN (2nd place); Radmilla ALIEVA (1st place); Eva SVACKOVA (3rd place).

Junior women’s bodyfitness over 163 cm: 2009 IFBB world champion Radmilla ALIEVA (Russia).

JUNIOR WOMEN’S BODYFITNESS OVERALL

Junior women’s bodyfitness overall champion Elina GOOK (Russia).

JUNIOR WOMEN’S BODYBUILDING OPEN

Junior women’s bodybuilding medal winners (from L to R): Rashida BELGRAVE (2nd place); Liana PALL (1st place); Brigita VECERSKAITE (3rd place).

Junior women’s bodybuilding: 2009 IFBB world champion Liana PALL (Romania).

JUNIOR MEN’S CLASSIC BODYBUILDING OPEN

Junior men’s classic bodybuilding medal winners (from L to R): Milan SADEK (2nd place); Lukas TOPINKA (1st place); Mikk RAUDSEPP (3rd place).

Junior men’s classic bodybuilding: 2009 IFBB world champion Lukas TOPINKA (Czech Republic).

JUNIOR MEN’S BODYBUILDING UP TO 75 KG

Junior men’s bodybuilding up to 75 kg medal winners (from L to R): Laron GIBSON (2nd place); Abdel EL SAYED (1st place); Tyren FORTUIN (3rd place).

Junior men’s bodybuilding up to 75 kg: 2009 IFBB world champion Abdel EL SAYED (Egypt).

JUNIOR MEN’S BODYBUILDING OVER 75 KG

Junior men’s bodybuilding over 75 kg medal winners (from L to R): Mohamed AHMED (2nd place); Roman FRITZ (1st place); Szymon LADA (3rd place).

Junior men’s bodybuilding over 75 kg: 2009 IFBB world champion Roman FRITZ (Germany).

JUNIOR MEN’S BODYBUILDING OVERALL

2009 IFBB junior men’s bodybuilding overall winner Roman FRITZ (Germany).

MASTER WOMEN’S BODYFITNESS OPEN

: Master women’s bodyfitness medal winners (from L to R): Renata JABLONSKA (2nd place); Paloma PARRA (1st place); Dagmar SIMMEN (3rd place).

2009 IFBB master women’s bodyfitness world champion Paloma PARRA (Spain).

MASTER WOMEN’S BODYBUILDING OPEN

Master women’s bodybuilding medal winners (from L to R): Simone LINAY (2nd place); Violet SCHWARZ (1st place); Marina NIKOTINA (3rd place).

2009 IFBB master women’s bodybuilding world champion Violett SCHWARZ.

MASTER MEN’S CLASSIC BODYBUILDING 40- 49 YEARS OLD, OPEN

Master men’s classic bodybuilding 40-49 years old medal winners (from L to R): Roman SENTI (2nd place); Frank VALLEE (1st place); Sedat BEKDEMIR (3rd place).

2009 IFBB master men’s classic bodybuilding 40-49 years old world champion Frank VALLEE (Norway).

MASTER MEN’S CLASSIC BODYBUILDING OVER 50 YEARS OLD, OPEN

Master men’s classic bodybuilding 40-49 years old medal winners (from L to R): Marek BORMANSKI (2nd place); Frantisek DAVID (1st place); Jan WYDUCH (3rd place).

2009 IFBB master men’s classic bodybuilding over 50 years old world champion Frantisek DAVID (Czech Republic).

MASTER MEN’S BODYBUILDING 40- 49 YEARS OLD, UP TO 70 KG

Master men’s bodybuilding 40-49 years old, up to 70 kg victory ceremony (from L to R): Polish Federation President Pawel FILLEBORN; Carlo CAPUCCI (2nd place); Miguel LOPEZ (1st place); IFBB President Dr. Rafael SANTONJA; Henryk HRYSZKIEWICZ (3rd place).

Master men’s bodybuilding 40-49 years old, up to 70 kg medal winners (from L to R): Carlo CAPUCCI (2nd place); Miguel LOPEZ (1st place); Henryk HRYSZKIEWICZ (3rd place).

2009 IFBB master men’s bodybuilding 40-49 years old up to 70 kg world champion Miguel LOPEZ (Spain).

MASTER MEN’S BODYBUILDING 40- 49 YEARS OLD, UP TO 80 KG

Master men’s bodybuilding 40-49 years old, up to 80 kg medal winners (from L to R): Jasin EL TOKHY (2nd place); Leonardo CARBALLO (1st place); Valeri KOPTENKO (3rd place).

2009 IFBB master men’s bodybuilding 40-49 years old up to 80 kg world champion Leonardo CARBALLO (Spain).

MASTER MEN’S BODYBUILDING 40- 49 YEARS OLD, UP TO 90 KG

Master men’s bodybuilding 40-49 years old, up to 90 kg victory ceremony (from L to R): Dennis GIUSTO (4th place); EBFF Vice-President Pawel FILLEBORN; Adel EL BASSIOUNY (2nd place); Organizing Committee Chairman Arkadius LESZCZYNSKI; Christos TARANATZIS (1st place); IFBB President Dr. Rafael SANTONJA; Ernst ZIMMERMAN (3rd place); Bialystok City Council Deputy Chairman Janusz KOCHAN.

Master men’s bodybuilding 40-49 years old, up to 90 kg medal winners (from L to R): Adel EL BASSIOUNY (2nd place); Christos TARANATZIS (1st place); Ernst ZIMMERMAN (3rd place).

2009 IFBB master men’s bodybuilding 40-49 years old up to 90 kg world champion Christos TARANATZIS (Germany).

MASTER MEN’S BODYBUILDING 40- 49 YEARS OLD, OVER 90 KG

Master men’s bodybuilding 40-49 years old, over 90 kg medal winners (from L to R): Ahmed HAMOUDA (2nd place); Vadym MYTRYUSHYN (1st place); Karl Heinz TIEGEL (3rd place).

2009 IFBB master men’s bodybuilding 40-49 years old over 90 kg world champion Vadym MYTRYUSHYN (Ukraine).

MASTER MEN’S BODYBUILDING 50- 59 YEARS OLD, UP TO 80 KG

Master men’s bodybuilding 50-59 years old, up to 80 kg medal winners (from L to R): Valter MINETTO (2nd place); Dave GOODIN (1st place); Michel VOSSIER (3rd place).

2009 IFBB master men’s bodybuilding 50-59 years old up to 80 kg world champion Dave GOODIN (USA).

MASTER MEN’S BODYBUILDING 50- 59 YEARS OLD, OVER 80 KG

Master men’s bodybuilding 50-59 years old, over 80 kg victory ceremony (from L to R): Waldemar NOL (4th place); Organizing Committee Chairman Arkadius LESZCZYNSKI; Antonio VERGIANI (2nd place); IFBB Judges Committee Chairman Pawel FILLEBORN; Wieslaw KRUK (1st place); IFBB President Dr. Rafael SANTONJA; Wolfgang SCHOBER (3rd place); Bialystok City Council Deputy Chairman Janusz KOCHAN; Jari SALMENAHO (5th place).

Master men’s bodybuilding 50-59 years old, over 80 kg medal winners (from L to R): Antonio VERGIANI (2nd place); Wieslaw KRUK (1st place); Wolfgang SCHOBER (3rd place).

2009 IFBB master men’s bodybuilding 50-59 years old over 80 kg world champion Wieslaw KRUK (Poland).

MASTER MEN’S BODYBUILDING OVER 60 YEARS OLD, OPEN

Master men’s bodybuilding over 60 years old finalists (from L to R): Esmat SADEK (6th place); Manuel VALBUENA (4th place); Ivan HORACEK (2nd place); Wieslaw CZERSKI (1st place); Bernard COOPER (3rd place); Rafael VERA (5th place).

Master men’s bodybuilding over 60 years old medal winners (from L to R): Ivan HORACEK (2nd place); Wieslaw CZERSKI (1st place); Bernard COOPER (3rd place).

2009 IFBB master men’s bodybuilding over 60 years old world champion Wieslaw CZERSKI (Poland).

Manuel VALBUENA, 66, with Cup for the oldest athlete in these Championships.

MASTER MEN’S BODYBUILDING OVERALL

Master men’s bodybuilding overall champion Vadym MYTRYUSHYN (Ukraine) congratulated by the IFBB Judges Committee Chairman Pawel FILLEBORN (left); IFBB President Dr. Rafael SANTONJA (second from left); IFBB Vice-President Albert BUSEK (second from right) and Ukrainian Federation Vice-President Sergii PANADIY (right).

WHEELCHAIR MEN’S BODYBUILDING OPEN

Wheelchair men’s bodybuilding medal winners (from L to R): Stefano REMETTA (2nd place); Daniel SMITH (1st place); Abdul BUKHARI (3rd place).

The first IFBB wheelchair world bodybuilding champion in the history: Daniel SMITH (United Kingdom).

Wheelchair bodybuilders performing compulsory poses.

Daniel SMITH (left) and Stefano REMETTA in the comparisons.

THE BEST TEAM AWARDS

Happy officials from the best national teams with the Luis Cyr statues (from L to R): Sergii PANADIY (Ukraine – 3rd place); Pawel FILLEBORN (Poland – 1st place) and Erich JANNER (Germany – 2nd place).

The best national team of the 2009 World Juniors and Masters Championships: Poland

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