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MEN’S BODYBUILDING
Two Fit-Bodybuilding categories
were run at these European
Championships: up to
170 cm and over 170 cm. Both
categories had their unquestionable
IFBB EUROPEAN champions, who unambiguously
won all rounds. Polish bodybuilder
Przemyslaw Nowak won the short
CHAMPIONSHIPS 2025 class and Romanian champion
Safier Koorndijk-Iancu dominated
the tall class. The overall battle was
Santa Susana, Spain very even, giving the overall title to
Koorndijk-Iancu, who won this clash
by 1 point only!

í AS USUAL one of the with three separate events, were
biggest event in the IFBB
staged in Santa Susanna in 2014, so
Calendar, combining three separate ten-year anniversary has passed.
Championships: Bodybuilding, Fitness Earlier, European Championships
and Junior & Masters and Fitness were usually held in different cities
Challenge, where athletes performed and countries because it was almost
different exercises for maximum impossible to find out location and
number of reps during the established financial resources for all these
period of time. events to be held in one place. But
Nowadays, more than 40 Santa Susanna has dozens of big
countries participate in the European hotels and a sport hall with a proper
Championships each year and over capacity to host this four-day event.
700 competitors (over 1100 entries And, what maybe is more important,
included crossovers), around 70 a friendly city authorities greatly
delegates and 70 judges. In 2025 the supported IFBB / EFBB in this huge
biggest teams were registered from project.
Finland (93 athletes) and the Czech IFBB and EFBB President, Dr.
Republic (62 athletes). The next 11 Rafael Santonja, closely cooperates
teams counted between 20 and 40 with Santa Susanna Mayor, Mr. Joan
competitors. Campolier, and this duo is extremely
European Championships have efficient, perfectly refining all
been tied for years with Santa details, so all participants may feel Men’s Bodybuilding up to 170 cm
Susanna, Spain. The first European comfortable, focusing on their sport PRZEMYSLAW NOWAK
Championships in this configuration, preparations.

2025 EUROPEAN BODYBUILDING CHAMPIONSHIPS
28 countries participated in this European Bodybuilding Championships and all
of them won points to the Best Teams Classification. Having so great star like
Safier Koorndijk-Iancu, who won 3 Gold and 1 Silver Medals, Romania easily
outpointed other national teams. Turkey reduplicated its 2nd place won in 2024
while Poland moved up to the 3rd position, following its unfortunate 10th place
in 2024. On the other hand, France dropped from 3rd place in 2024 to 11th
position now. Otherwise, the Czech Republic jumped from 12th place in 2024 to
4th position now. Azerbaijan, who was at top of the 2024 team’s classification,
took the 6th place now.

OVER ALL WINNERS
MEN’S GAMES CLASSIC BODYBUILDING: Safier Koorndijk-Iancu (Romania)
MEN’S CLASSIC BODYBUILDING: Safier Koorndijk-Iancu (Romania)
MEN’S FIT BODYBUILDING: Safier Koorndijk-Iancu (Romania)
MEN’S FIT CLASSIC PHYSIQUE: Shkelqim Sabrija (Albania)
MEN’S PHYSIQUE: Rilind Musa (Kosovo)
MUSCULAR MEN’S PHYSIQUE: Hidayat Guluzade (Azerbaijan)
Men’s Bodybuilding over
MEN’S WHEELCHAIR BODYBUILDING: Tolga Balikci (Turkey) 170 cm & Overall
SAFIER KOORNDIJK-IANCU

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