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2020 FITNESS WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

WOMEN’S

PHYSIQUE

A new chapter in the individual duel
between the Ukrainian specialists: with less Nataliia
size, but more quality, Nataliia Prokhorova Mina Sofía Prokhorova
showed the best version of herself at 49 Mahzoon (Ukraine)
finally
years, going from bronze in 2019 to gold, (Sweden) achieved
Women´s
thanks to her advantage in the compulsory Physique the Women’s
poses. The Master champion adds 3 golds (-163 cm) Physique
(+163 cm)
to her collection in this championship, bea- world world
ting fellow countrywoman Liubov Popova. champion).u champion
The elegant athlete went from her 2019 title.u
silver to bronze, surpassed by Polish athlete
Krzyworzeka, despite prevailing in the free SHORT CLASS (-163 cm) TALL CLASS (+163 cm)
poses, where she was the favourite.
In the short class, we saw a lot of new Gold: Nataliia Prokhorova (Ukraine)
Gold: Mina-Sofía Mahzoon (Sweden)
faces, with a clear victory for the Swedish Silver: Aline Beck (Switzerland) Silver: Aleksandra Krzyworzeka (Poland)
Mina S. Mahzoon over her rivals. Bronze: Andrijana Dabic (Austria) Bronze: Liubov Popova (Ukraine)
OVERALL WOMEN’S
PHYSIQUE:
Natalia Prokhorova
(Ukraine)
MIXED PAIRS BODYBUILDING

In the most disputed edition of the century, featuring 11 couples, Ukraine maintained its
dominance under the guidance of Liubov Popopa who, with new partner Vadym Vasylevsyi,
repeated the gold of 2019. The quality of their routine (5 points) was key to achieve the title.
Another experienced couple, Elena Masarykova and Peter Tatarka, repeated their bronze
of 2019 for Slovakia, surpassed by the Austrian couple made up of Andrijana Dabic and Andrej
Mandic, who confirm the excellent role of Austria in the 2020 World Cup.

Gold:
Liubov Popova &
Yurii Zymohliad
Mina Mahzoon’s 29 years and her good (Ukraine)
lines couldn’t prevent Nataliia Prokhorova, Silver:
20 years older, from clearly conquering Yurii Zymohliad and Liubov Andrijana Dabic &
Popova (Ukraine), Mixed
the overall title (6 to 9 points), thanks to the pairs Bodybuilding world Andrej Mandic
(Austria)
fantastic balance between her muscularity champions. Bronze:
and leanness. With less size than before, Elena Masarykova
the Ukrainian athlete offered the best & Peter Tatarka
shape of her career. (Slovakia)
BEST TEAM AWARD
Russia, champion in 2017 and 2019, was never
even close to the title with a depleted team due
to the pandemic. This allowed Ukraine to easily
recover its 2018 crown, thanks to their medals in all
disciplines and the high average level of its athletes.
Behind Ukraine, a great leap was made by
Finland, going from 5th place in 2019 to the RESULTS (TOP 7)
second step on the podium, ahead of Poland 1 Ukraine (145 points)
who repeated the bronze tied on points with 2 Finland (96 points)
the Czech Republic, and achieving a title as 3 4 Poland (82 points)
(82 points)
Czech Rep.
important as Bikini. 5 Spain (54 points)
Spain continued to improve, going from 8th in very renewed team that will have to follow up on 6 7 Slovakia (53 points)
Russia
(42 points)
2019 to 5th, ahead of Slovakia and Russia, with a their evolution.
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