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http://www.ifbb.com/2015/06/2015-ifbb-world-classic-bodybuilding-championships-will-be-held-in-benidorm-on-november-5th-9th/ "The 2015 IFBB World Men’s BodyBuilding Championships and Congress, the IFBB flagship championship, will include this year the IFBB World Classic BodyBuilding Championships. Both championships will be celebrated in a weekend, on November 5th- 9th in Benidorm, the nice mediterranean city of Spain. The championships will be held at Benidorm Palace, which has an excellent 40 metres stage and great facilities. More info and Inspection report will be released soon."

http://www.ifbb.com/2015/06/bodybuilding-days-at-the-1st-european-games-in-baku by Andrew Michalak The historical 1st European Games in Baku, Azerbaijan, started on June 12th, 2015 and will be ended June 28th, 2015, so bodybuilding and fitness event will take place in the middle of the Games, on Sunday, June 21st, 2015, with semifinals in the morning and evening finals. IFBB officials, with President Santonja as a head, as well as national Teams will arrive on Friday. Technical Meeting and Official Registration are scheduled for Saturday. Most of the current IFBB Championships have an unlimited participation but in case of Baku participation has been limited. Each European country could enter 3 competitors maximum, not more than two in one category. And number of categories is also limited to five Men’s Classic Bdyobuilding classes, one Men’s Fitness open and one Women’s Fitness open. Moreover, all nominated competitors had to pass the doing test via the ADAMS Program around 3 weeks prior to the contest. Altogether, 40 competitors have met these conditions, and this is an expected number. Regarding participating athletes, some categories look great! Let’s start from the ladies: Women’s Fitness will be a real parade of stars: two 2014 world champions: Dominika Multanova (up to 163 cm class) and Liudmila Nikitina (over 163 cm class), 2014 World Championships runner-up Oksana Orobets (Ukraine), 2014 Arnold Europe runner-up and former world junior champion Nikolett Szabo (Hungary), World Championships bronze medal winner Emma Paveley (United Kingdom), multi time world children fitness champion Vanesa Belova (Latvia), former World Junior Championships bronze medal winner Olha Mohylnytska (Ukraine). Never seen so many stars in one open category! In Men’s Fitness: top two from the World Championships: Fedir Khashalov and Nazar Kharkhun (Ukraine) plus European Championships finalist: Ferenc Rippel (Hungary). In Men’s Classic Bodybuilding up to175 cm category; European Championships runner-up Andrej Varga (Slovakia) vs. former world men’s physique champion Valentin Petkov (Bulgaria). In the up to180 cm class: 2013 European Championships overall winner and World Championships runner-up Ali Emre (Azerbaijan). In the tall class (+180 cm): three former European champions Dmitry Krilov (Russia), Drazen Vrbancic (Croatia) and Boris Orava (Czech Republic), former World Championships runner-up Andrey Lopushankiy (Azerbaijan). As we can see, at this contest quality dominates over quantity, so top emotion guaranteed!

TOP 3 results // http://www.eastlabs.ru/ifbb-evropa-ebff/916/1st-european-games-baku-results-top-3

A written review now published by IFBB with the TOP results // http://www.ifbb.com/2015/06/2015-european-games-baku-azerbaijan/ The class winners: Men's fitness: Fedir Khashalov, Ukraine (photos http://www.eastlabs.ru/foto-galereya/1st-european-games-baku-azerbaijan/1st-european-games-men-s-fitness) Women's fitness: Liudmila Nikitina, Russia (photos: http://www.eastlabs.ru/foto-galereya/1st-european-games-baku-azerbaijan/1st-european-games-women-s-fitness) CBB up to 168cm: Teymur Aslanov, Azerbaijan (photos: http://www.eastlabs.ru/foto-galereya/1st-european-games-baku-azerbaijan/1st-european-games-classic-bodybuilding-168cm) CBB up to 171cm: Elnur Shikhaliyev, Azerbaijan (photos: http://www.eastlabs.ru/foto-galereya/1st-european-games-baku-azerbaijan/1st-european-games-classic-bodybuilding-171cm) CBB up to 180cm: Ali Emre, Azerbaijan (photos: http://www.eastlabs.ru/foto-galereya/1st-european-games-baku-azerbaijan/1st-european-games-classic-bodybuilding-180cm) CBB over 180cm: Kaveh Jazan, Azerbaijan (photos: http://www.eastlabs.ru/foto-galereya/1st-european-games-baku-azerbaijan/1st-european-games-classic-bodybuilding-over-180cm)

And some other updates from the IFBB pro league: > The O weekend is getting closer, current lists of standings on qualification point system + qualified athletes is now updated and can be found at http://npcnewsonline.com/2015-olympia-qualification-series-standings-update-24/197470/ Antoine Vaillant recent update vid: Milan Sadek shares a work out vid on his way to his pro debut // http://www.amix-nutrition.cz/novinky/milan-sadek-amixlog-volume-1.html Justin Compton guest posed at NPC Greater Gulf show during the weeked: http://kulturistika.ronnie.cz/c-22128-justin-compton-exhibice-na-npc-greater-gulf-states-championship.html Pro league contest season continues already on Saturday with IFBB San Jose Championships. For more information with the competitor lists please visit http://www.ifbbpro.com/events/2015-san-jose-championships/

And photos & results from the IFBB Greater Gulf States which was also held during this weekend // http://contests.npcnewsonline.com/contests/2015/ifbb_greater_gulf_states/ Bikini TOP 3 (from the left) Angela Marquez (1.) - Sarah LeBlanc (2.) - Brittany Taylor (3.) MP TOP 3 (from the left): Ryan Hinton (1.) - Eric Heidelberg (2.) - Charles Chester (3.) WPD TOP 3 (from the left): Danielle Reardon (1.) - Venus Nguyen (2.) - Jill Dearmin (3.) The winner of each class qualified to the 2015 Olympia.

And even more videos uploaded on Eastlabs YT-channel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnaKv3KwznJlwzl2auMp3ZA Here Estonian girls' semifinals and finals:

Europa Dallas // Pro figure winner and Figure Olympia qualification: Andrea Calhoun Rachelle Carter (4.) - Chaya Boone (3.) - Andrea Calhoun (1) - Tina Nguyen (2.) And Michael Ferguson wins Men's physique class...(no comparison photos available yet) And Yasha takes top honors in WPD...(which I do not understand, bodybuilder look!?!)

Europa Dallas photos and results at http://musculardevelopment.com/contests/events/1897-ifbb-europa-supershow-2015#.VYb6JEauf4w Men's BB open class winner and olympia qualification, Fred Smalls: Williams (3.) - Gairy (2.) - Smalls (1.) - Ntiforo (4.) BB - 212 winner and -212 show down qualification - Kyungwon Kang: Tricky Jackson (3.) - Sami Al Haddad (2.) - Kyungwon Kang (1.) - Graig Richardson (4.) MD wrap up //

Looks like Ali Emre leaves the arena with the biggest trophy in CBB short class: TOP 3 shot in taller class:

While waiting for the results, some impressions from yday's weigh in at http://www.eastlabs.ru/foto-galereya/1st-european-games-baku-azerbaijan/1st-european-games-weight-in

Eastlabs.ru is there to coverage the show, some of the preshow interviews (in russian though):

http://www.ifbb.com/2015/06/ifbb-tv-will-be-launched-next-week/ IFBB TV is going to be launched on June 26th worldwide in English and Spanish, as a themed online channel for fans of bodybuilding, fitness and healthy living in general. It will include all the IFBB last news and events information from all around the world, with a wide option of interesting programs all of them related with our sport and healthy life style, as “Healthy and Delicious” of healthy receipts, training tips, debates, nutritional information, interviews of our champions and best athletes, etc. The IFBB Pro & 4-Time Mr. Olympia athlete Phil Heath is inviting you to enjoy IFBB TV with us. To watch his video message and more click the following .

http://www.ifbb.com/2015/06/ifbb-in-baku-european-games/ The IFBB will be in this first edition of the European Games, which are going to be celebrated in Baku. The IFBB will participate in the cultural program, and it is a big opportunity to have a great experience with the Olympic Official during the European Games. European Games will include Classic and Fitness categories. This is another significant step in the construction of the portfolio for our Olympic Recognition, following the excellent results at the Asian Beach Games. The European Games are going to be a magnificent event, at first class venues, organized at the highest level by the Republic of Azerbaijan, due to the great determination and love for sport of the President Ilham Aliyev, and the chairman of the Games Organizing Committee and Minister of Sport, Azad Rajimov. In this first edition of the European Games there are even olympic sports that are not included in any program, so to be present in the cultural program is a great opportunity that has been achieved by the great work of Rauf Bunyataliyev and the prestige hold by the Azerbaijan Federation together with the IFBB with the Azerbaijan Minister of Sport.

Team-andro.com has uploaded already some videos, see them at http://clips.team-andro.com/gvideos.php?urlkey=amateurolympiaspain&gid=234 Kristina's finals:

Complete galleries are now online at http://www.eastlabs.sk/fotogaleria/2015-olympia-amateur-spain-malaga

Women's bikini fitness over all comparison // Eastlabs.ru / Eastlabs.sk

Aleksandra at the prejudging: And some more of Kristina:

Elis More of Reet:

Some bikini photos already up at http://www.team-andro.com/coppermine/thumbnails.php?album=2764

TOP 6 results in Reet's and Kristina's class (by team-andro.com)

And bodybuilding over all comparisons video:

Today : CBB and bikini fitness. Here the scorecards from yesterday, thanks to www.eastlabs.ru/sk:

Over all comparison photo galleries are available at http://www.eastlabs.sk/fotogaleria/2015-olympia-amateur-spain-malaga See also the Team-andro.com galleries of BF, MP and BB classes at http://www.team-andro.com/coppermine/index.php?cat=16 BB over all comparison: Hoffmann - Zupan - Ashkanani Vullioud - Perez - Herrera

TOP 3 results // BB UP to 70kg: 1. Antonio Herrera 2. Jonay Mesa Navarro 3. Hussain Alhashemi Up to 80kg: 1. Michel Perez 2. Albert Galan 3. Mohamed Alrashed Up to 85kg: 1. Nicolas Vullioud 2. Jusep Merion 3. Andres Corrales Up to 90kg: 1. Ahmed Ashkanani 2. Manuel Canadillas 3. Samir Troudi Up to 100kg: 1. Miha Zupan 2. Ludovic Bogaert 3. Valantis Dokos Over 100kg: 1. David Hoffmann 2. Stefano Di Muzio 3. Marek Szostak Over all and awarded with the IFBB pro card - David Hoffmann, Germany