IFBB Australian Pro GP 2013; information, photos, results..

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Like so many years before, only one week after the Arnold Classic the pro circus travels from US to another continent; on 9th March 2013 men's open, women's pro figure and pro bikini competitors will compete at IFBB Australian Pro Grand Prix.

More information to follow...

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So, this show coming up in this weekend!

The official competitor lists are out and seems to be pretty much re-match from the AC weekend;

NPCnewsonline.com previes the show; http://npcnewsonline.com/ifbb-weekend-preview-australia-grand-prix-musclecontest-com-bikini-championships/53139/

AUSTRALIA GRAND PRIX XII – Melbourne, Australia

Three newly-crowned Arnold Classic champs make the trip Down Under this weekend, but don’t be surprised if at least one of those doesn’t start the season with back-to-back wins. The entire top three from a week ago will be on hand for both the Men’s Bodybuilding and Bikini divisions, while two of the top three from the Figure International will go pose-for-pose once again.

In Men’s Bodybuilding, Dexter Jackson will be looking for No. 4 for the second consecutive week. He tied Flex Wheeler’s record of four Arnold Classic wins a week ago in Columbus and now heads to Australia looking to break a tie with Chris Cormier (2001-2003) for the most wins in the history of that event. Jackson won in Australia in 2004 and in 2007-2008. Holding his condition while traveling has rarely posed problems for Jackson in the past, so Ben Pakulski (2nd at the Arnold Classic) and Toney Freeman (3rd at the Arnold Classic) will likely need to improve from last week in order to stand in Jackson’s way.

India Paulino won the biggest title of her career last week, finally cashing in at a major event after . She won’t get to rest on her laurels this week with both Nathalia Melo and Nicole Nagrani on hand. The Bikini division has consistently shown there are no sure things, as Paulino, Melo and Nagrani have traded placings the last few times they’ve met.

Erin Stern enters as the two-time defending champion in Figure, but she isn’t the favorite this time around. That distinction goes to Candice Keene, who won the Figure International a week ago. Stern finished third behind Keene and Heather Dees a week ago, the first time she failed to make the top two in a contest since 2009.

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They are already done with bikini prejudging in Melbourne, the bikini call outs;

1st call out, from the left Nicole Nagrani - Nathalia Melo - India Paulino

2nd call out - Polianna Moss - Amy Wright - Rihannon Harris

3rd call out Amy Wright - Nina Silic - Rihannon Harris - Jessica Penderast

4th call Paulino - Nagrani - Moss - Melo

More photos on NPCnewsonline.com - http://contests.npcnewsonline.com/contests/2013/ifbb_australia_pro/

BTW Nina Silic placed 3rd just week ago at the Arnold Amateur bikini class D, now she won the amateur show in Melbourne and was awarded with a pro card + made her pro debut right there..

Men's and figure prejudging starting in the morning in our time I assume, anyway some preshow photos on Flexonline.com - http://www.flexonline.com/ifbb/australian-grand-prix-xii-2013?slideshow=16407&slide=0&dest=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.flexonline.com%252Fifbb%252Faustralian-grand-prix-xii-2013

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Not that much photos available yet from the prejudging round but here are the call outs anyway;

Pro figure prejudging;

1st call: Candice Keene - Erin Stern - Candice Lewis - Mallory Haldeman

2nd call out: Rinnah Schmid - Amanda Doherty - Darlene Williams - Yoko Washington

3rd call out: Summer Bernard - Asher Prior - Darlene Williams - Laura Keddi

And the final call out and obviously the TOP 6: Amanda Doherty - Mallory Haldeman - Candice Keene - Candice Lewis - Erin Stern - Yoko Washington

Men's Pro BB prejudging;

1st call out: Dexter Jackson - Ed Nunn - Toney Freeman - Ben Pakulski - Ivan Sedak

2nd call out: Jeff Long - Luke Timms - Ivan Sedak - M Kefalianos

3rd call out: Nguyen - Shembri - Olberg - Timms

The final call and obviously the TOP 4: Jackson - Nunn - Freeman - Pakulski

CALL OUTS // VIDEO http://www.flexonlin...en-pj-call-outs

RXmuscle.com has some BB photos up and will be uploading more - http://gallery.rxmus...st=100&year=704

Some shots available from the prejudging round on Bodybuilders.gr FB page - https://www.facebook...37096285&type=1

EDIT: MD's photos are up as well - http://pics.musculardevelopment.com/index.php?mode=contest&eventcode=1641

Ed Nunn's interview after the prejudging http://www.flexonlin...pro-pre-judging

Seems like Dex is taking this one too ..

Quality isn't the best but ... Pakulski - Freeman - Jackson - Nunn - Sadek

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RESULTS // Australia Pro 2013

Pro Bikini

1. India Paulino

2. Nicole Nagrani

3. Nathalia Melo

4. Polianna Moss

5. Rihannon Harris

Pro Figure;

1. Candice Keene

2. Erin Stern

3. Candice Lewis

4. Mallory Haldeman

5. Rinnah Schmid

Men's Pro BB

1. Dexter Jackson

2. Toney Freeman

3. Ben Pakulski

4. Ed Nunn

5. Ivan Sadek

6. Michael Kefalianos

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The full photogalleries are now online on NPCnewsonline.com as well.

Full results with scores are available here.

Figure Champ Candice Keene interviewed after the show - LINK.

TOP in each class;

Bikini; Nagrani (2.) - Melo (3.) - Paulino (1.)

Figure; Lewis (4.) - Keene (1.) - Stern (2.) - Haldeman (4.)

Lewis - Keene - Stern

Lewis - Keene - Stern - Haldeman

Pro BB;

Pakulski (3.) - Freeman (2.) - Jackson (1.) - Nunn (4.)

Freeman - Pakulski - Jackson

Nunn - Freeman