IFBB JUNIORS & MASTERS
WORLD AMATEUR BODYBUILDING,
FITNESS and BODY FITNESS CHAMPIONSHIPS

 

OFFICIAL FINAL RESULTS SCORESHEET (IN PDF FORMAT)

FROM 15 TO 65 YEARS OLD
2006 IFBB WORLD JUNIORS & MASTERS CHAMPIONSHIPS CAME TO SICILY
AGRIGENTO, SICILY, ITALY
November 10-13, 2006

World Juniors and Masters Championships have become a very important and specific IFBB event, gathering nearly 182 athletes from 38 countries and from 15 to 65 years old.

As the IFBB President, Dr. Rafael Santonja, emphasized in his opening speech, pointing out the competitors on the stage :

“Learn how to live a bodybuilding lifestyle. They are the perfect examples: you can be fit, strong and shaped in a very young age as well as in an advanced age”.

Agrigento, host city for the 2006 World Championships due to Alfio Strano – president of the AS Heracles Club. The city of Agrigento greatly supported the Championships, treated it as a promotion of the city, its history and culture. The authorities were involved in the preparation process as well as in running of the event. Many of them have been honored by the IFBB President, Dr. Rafael Santonja with the highest IFBB awards, like Aldo Piazza (Mayor of Agrigento), Roberto Gallo (Councilor for Tourism), Carmelo Callari (Cauncelor for Sport) to mention the top officials.

The Italian Bodybuilding and Fitness Federation under the leadership of its vigorous president Benedetto Mondello made a great input to the Championships, staged in the modern Convention Center (Palacongressi), running all activities in a very smooth manner. Beside the usual sport activity at the Championships, participants had the opportunity to visit the famous Valley of the Temples declared a UNESCO Heritage Site, as this region of Sicily has had the Greek roots and history reaching 6th century B.C.

  
The younger competitors battled for the medals in the nine official bodyweight (bodybuilders) or height (fitness) categories. Junior men bodybuilding was dominated by the strong teams from Egypt, Syria and Bulgaria, with Sherif Abdel Aziz of Egypt as the overall winner. Florina Cernat of Romania defended her women junior bodybuilding title won in Budapest last year.

And there was new bodybuilding category called Classic Bodybuilding, officially introduced to the Championships for the first time. Hungarian athlete Tamas Simon took the first world junior title in this class.
Most of the medals in the junior fitness categories were distributed among the Russian, Polish and Ukrainian athletes. Special attention should be paid to the Ukrainian junior men fitness star Maksym Orobets, whose outstanding routine was a mixture of top sport and top art. Full of drama battle between Russia’s Yulya Ushakova and Hungarian’s Boglarka Toth in women junior body-fitness was very emotional, giving the third-in-a-row silver medal to Toth.

 
 
At left, Benedetto Mondello and President Rafael Santonja.

At right, IFBB President Dr. Rafael Santonja (left) received this painting from artist Francesco Ferlisi.
  
     
 
 
Mayor of Agrigento, Mr. Aldo Piazza (second from right), has been honored with the IFBB Silver Medal, presented to him by IFBB President Dr. Rafael Santonja (second from left), EBFF Leg
  
     
 
 
Junior men bodybuilding up to 75 kg medal winners (from L to R) Ibrahim Sami (2nd place); Sherif Abdel Aziz (1st place); Petar Borisov (3rd place)
  
     
 
 
06. Junior women body-fitness over 163 cm medal winners (from L to R) Boglarka Toth (2nd place); Yulya Ushakova (1st place); Kristina Karaliute (3rd place)..JPG
  
     
 
 
Junior women bodybuilding medal winners (from L to R) Renata Hronova (2nd place); Florina Cernat (1st place); Petra Hanova (3rd place)
  
     
  At left, Juniors Bodyfitness over 163cm  
At right, Junior classic bodybuilding medal winners (from L to R) Lukas Topinka (2nd place); Simon Tamas (1st place); Cianchino Carmelo (3rd place)

Up to 164 cm medal winners (L to R)
Viktoria Nagy (2nd place); Nina Smirnova (1st place); Svetlana Yurkova
(3rd place)
Over 164 cm
medal winners (L to R) Yana Ryabova (2nd place); Ewelina Barej
(1st place);
Zuzana Sevecova
(3rd place)
     

Masters categories set a new record of popularity, with 120 athletes competed in eight categories. World women bodybuilding champions Irina Muntean (Romania) and Claudia Partenza (Italy) run a very tough duel for the title, changing the places from round to round, but finally Partenza took the victory.

 The line-up of 25 competitors took part in master women body-fitness struggle. Italian Carmen Galasso was unbeatable in this category.
Two master bodybuilding titles went to Germany, as Michael Kohler won the 70 kg class and Olaf Peters returned after few year break to grasp the gold medal in over 50 class. Three-time world men champion Tagir Fakhrutdinov of Russia won his first gold medal in the masters divisions (80 kg) and Abdulla Jassim of Qatar recaptured the world title in 90 kg class, lost last year to phenomenal Wolfgang Klotz, who didn’t appear this time.
Petru Ciorba of Romania finished first in the +90 kg class, after two silver and one bronze medals won in the past three years. He is like good wine, improving with his age. And something new in the IFBB Championships – over 60 category, for the oldest athletes. It seems that the Spaniards take care of their physiques in the best way as the top two places went to them. If you look at the winner, Rafael Vera, you can’t believe this man is over 60.
     
 
 
Up to 70 kg medal winners (from L to R) Sergio Conti (2nd place); Michael Kohler (1st place); Milfi Alghamdi (3rd place))
  
     
 
 
Up to 80 kg medal winners (from L to R) Luiz Sarmento (2nd place); Tagir Fakhrutdinov (1st place); Semion Berkovic (3rd place)
  
     
 
 
Up to 90 kg medal winners (from L to R) Jader De Cristo (2nd place); Mohammed Jassim (1st place); Stavros Malaktos (3rd place)
  
     
 
 
Over 90 kg medal winners (from L to R) Koen Balcaen (2nd place); Petru Ciorba (1st place); Roman Tyc (3rd place)
  
     
 
 
Master women bodybuilding medal winners (from L to R) Irina Muntean (2nd place); Claudia Partenza (1st place); Jo Stewart (3rd place)
  
     
  Age 50-59 class comparisons (from L to R) Alexander Yashankin (2nd place) and Olaf Peters (1st place)  
     

From these world championships, we all have to remember the IFBB President, Dr Rafael Santonja’s words:

“After such a competition, the whole world will be able to see that the athletes are doubtlessly the winners, but that weight training and healthy lifestyle are also part of the Victory. They proved to be a very meaningful factor in the anti-aging battle” 

     
 
 
Victory ceremony (from L to R) Manuel Valbuena (2nd place); Rafael Vera (1st place); Esmat Sadek (3rd place)
  
     
  Presidents of the best national teams (from R to R) Stanislav Pesat (Czech Republic, 2nd place), Vladimir Dubinin (Russia, 1st place) and Bedetto Mondello (Italy, 3rd place)