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MEN’S PHYSIQUE

Once again, there was important renewal at 50, revalidated the gold, now in a comfortably, confirming the setback of
among the medallists, except for the new division. The overall title went to Europe in this discipline.
formidable Yoshitake Tamura, who, the Cape Verdean Evelino Rodrigues,

40-44 años (Open) 45-49 years (Open) +50 years (Open):

Gold: Kenichiro Oshima (Japan) Gold: Evelino Rodrigues (Cabo Verde) Gold: Yoshitake Tamura (Japan)
Silver: Saeed Rezabeyke (Germany) Silver: Chris Harnell (Sweden) Silver: Florentin Corbeanu (Romania)
Bronze: Daniel Pérez (Spain) Bronze: Takao Sekiguchi (Japan) Bronze: Arnaud Salmon (France)

Evelino
Rodrigues from
Kenichiro Cape Verde; Yoshitake
Oshima 45 years) took
(Japan, 42 gold with 1 point Tamura
(Japan; 50
years), gold advantage over years), gold
medal.u Chris Harnell
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OVERALL MASTER MEN’S PHYSIQUE: BEST TEAM AWARD: Slovakia
Evelino Rodrigues (Cape Verde) Without the presence of place from 2021 and
the women’s teams, the beating Spain by a short
Master competition was margin of 2 points. The
based solely on the Spanish federation also
scores of the men’s progressed from its 10th
teams this time, providing place in 2021, to a 4th
a list of 41 countries that place, ahead of Japan
managed to place athletes (5th, 2 points difference)
in the finals. and Egypt (6th with 7
Slovakia’s team made points difference), the
an impressive leap from best non-European
their 8th place finish in federations.
2021 to claiming team
victory, ahead of
Romania who also
improved their 3rd position Country points
place from last year. 1º slovakia 118
The good work of
these two sports 2º Romania 108
federations was 3º sweden 81
joined by that of 4º spain 79
Completing his excellent participation in the Championships, Sweden, who was 5º Japan 77
the African Evelino Rodrigues achieved the overall title of Men’s able to reach bronze, 6º egypt 72
Physique, defeating the Japanese champions. improving its 6th

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