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IFBB WORLD BODYBUILDING COMPLETE PHOTO
GALLERY

CHAMPIONSHIPS

Games Classic Games Classic Men’s Physique Men’s Physique
Bodybuilding up to 175 cm. Bodybuilding Overall. up to 170 cm. up to 173 cm.
TOMAS SMREK JAECHUN LEE WU HUI SULAIMAN AL RIYAMI

í THE BIGGEST WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
championships in the history of bodybuilding were
held in Santa Susanna (Barcelona - Spain) last
November. The times of Covid are definitely gone and fitness
and bodybuilding have managed to overcome these problems
and continue to grow as a sport around the world. Proof of
this is the image of the IFBB World Congress, with more than
100 attending countries, achieving another record that very
few sports can boast.
The Slovakian Tomas Smrek, tall and with good
structure, won the gold medal in the Class up to 175 cm of
Games Classic Bodybuilding while the athlete Jaechun Lee
(South Korea) won the gold medal in the Class above 175 cm
in addition to the overall with legs and an excellent pose.
In Men’s Physique, the Chinese athlete Wu Hui was the
winner in the Class up to 170 cm, though he did not have
an easy time against the Ukrainian Viktor Danylov. On the
other hand, Sulaiman Al Riyami (Oman) in the Class up
to 173 cm was clearly the champion of this division and of
the Overall in addition, thanks to his great quality and the
balance in mass, shape, definition and pose. In the cut up
to 176 cm it was the Iranian Farid Alimardany who took the
gold medal. His compatriot Hamid Soltani did the same Men’s Physique Men’s Physique
in the next Class up to 179 cm. In the class up to 182 cm it up to 176 cm. up to 179 cm.
FARID ALIMARDANY HAMID SOLTANI

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