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FIT MODEL WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS, RIGA 2019:

CHINA ENTERS THE MEDAL TABLE IN EARNEST

The
2019 World
Champion, Sofía
Maloletova (Russia)
with Mrs. Christina
Vedernikova –president of
the Latvian Federation-
and Mr. Pawel Filleborn
-responsible of the
IFBB Judges
Committee-.

th
í LATVIA’S CAPITAL city held in Riga on the 17 of medal for China in a World
was again the focal point of September. Championships. This success was
international attention for the African and Asian athletes multiplied thanks to the dominance
growing number of followers of fought head-to-head with European of the male Chinese athletes, taking
the Fit Model discipline, as the athletes in a competition that saw their first complete podium in
2019 World Championships was Yu Teng achieve the first female history in the male open class.

The Short
Class
finalists,
finally won
by Samanta
Balode
(Latvia).u

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