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2023 EUROPEAN FITNESS

CHAMPIONSHIPS

Commonly known as “The World Capital of Fitness”, Santa Susanna Elite Pro division. Ukraine holds the Best Team title second time in
hosted the best European senior, junior and masters athletes in all a row, with Romania changing Finland in the 2nd position. Slovakia
fitness divisions, included Women’s and Men’s Fit-Model for the firmly remains in the 3rd place. 31 countries have been classified.
first time, having previously a separate continental championships.
This made the Fitness Championships more attractive and stylish, o V er al l WINN ers
taking into account the final round in evening gowns. Half of
the Overall titles went to the well-known, famous stars, current Women’s Bikini Aneta Ticha (Slovakia)
Women’s Bodyfitness
Alla Matsehora (Ukraine)
or former world title holders, like Aneta Ticha (Bikini), Kristina Women’s Wellness Gentiana Beqa (Albania)
Juricova (Acrobatic Fitness), Michal Barbier (Men’s Fitness) or Alla Women’s Physique Malin Nilsson (Sweden)
Matsehora (Bodyfitness). But others went to the young, rising stars Women’s Artistic Fitness Nicol Celerikova (Slovakia)
like Nicol Celerikova (Artistic Fitness), Regina Mandrika (Fit- Women’s Acrobatic Fitness Kristina Juricova (Slovakia)
Model) or Malin Nilsson (Women’s Physique). In the IFBB a fast Men’s Fitness Michal Barbier (Slovakia)
rotation of the stars can be seen as many medal winners from the Women’s Fit-Model Regina Mandrika (Latvia)
top international competitions have constantly been moving to the Men’s Fit-Model Ciprian Borcan (Romania)

WOMEN’S BIKINI

Very successful division for Estonia and Slovakia. Both countries won 2 gold medals each but Slovakia added the Overall title, which went to their
new superstar Aneta Ticha (also 2022 World Overall Champion). But this time Ticha had to run a very tough battle against the new Swedish star
Linn Von Bar and finally they were tied 11:11 in the Overall, with Taru Partanen of Finland just 1 point behind them. Other 2022 World Champion
Svitlana Novytska (Ukraine) won the silver medal this time, being tied 12:12 with Linn Von Bar in the tallest class.

WOMEN’S BIKINI UP TO 158 CM WOMEN’S BIKINI UP TO 160 CM
Gold: Elisabeth Atamanski (Estonia) Gold: Viktorija Volodkovic (Lithuania)
Silver: Alena Kuzmina (Belgium) Silver: Ariana Toplicianu (Romania)
Bronze: Rehina Hrabovenko (Ukraine) Bronze: Moona Hirvonen (Finland)

WOMEN’S BIKINI UP TO 162 CM WOMEN’S BIKINI UP TO 164 CM
Gold: Nonna Prokopjuk (Estonia) Gold: Wiktoria Bryniczka (Poland)
Silver: Zivile Augustyte (Lithuania) Silver: Narcisa Martin (Romania)
Bronze: Mara Zidarescu (Romania) Bronze: Natalia Hrabarchuk (Ukraine)

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