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GOLD COAST

CLASSIC

Bikini Open
Josi Gregorio, Melissa
Carver, Amasha
Marshall and Dinah
McQueen.

í 2018 has brought past March with $25,000 held in Australia and it age is just a number!
prize money.
was extremely well liked
Of course, the Men’s
some huge changes
to the IFBB in Australia The competition by the competitors and Physique was also hugely
and for that matter, was open to all amateur the audience. A whole popular and proved to be
worldwide. athletes in our region and new demographic of a very competitive line up
To compete globally attracted competitors competitors who have in 2 height divisions. We
and to attain Elite Pro from Tahiti, New Zealand, desperately looked for were fortunate to have a
status has become so Tonga, New Caledonia, somewhere to fit in to great judging panel with a
much more accessible to Cook Islands, American a competition that is wealth of experience from
our Australian athletes as Samoa as well as complimentary to their our international panel
well as tens of thousands Indonesia and of course, natural genetic potential, who came from all the
of athletes worldwide. Australia. Several other have found their home. South Pacific nations.
And also for our IFBB nations sent delegates Our Bikini competitors The Open Class I
amateur athletes to earn to observe.As usual, the were all in amazing shape featured some incredible
prize money, a huge bonus numbers in the Bikini and interestingly, the physiques which
for these competitors! category dominated 2nd place winner in the exemplifying this division
An example of this was but our big surprise Open division was the perfectly and then came
the 2018 Australasian was to be the Wellness winner of the Masters the very competitive
Elite Cup which was held category. This was the division. This shows that Class II. The eventual
in Sydney Australia this first time Wellness was chronologically speaking, winners of each division,

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