WABBA MR. AND MISS UNIVERSE 2017
Miss Shape class with 3 Hungarian Athletes in
the top 6.
The winner Emanuela Manfredini from Italy was
an amazing example of the ideal for this class and
narrowly edged out Portugal’s Solange Paulini. Our
two athletes Nikki Antonaccio and Dannii Cage couldn’t
break the top 6 on this occasion but held their own in
the strongest class of the day.
Luke Bagster was in our first Men’s Bodybuilding Class
and completely dominated from start to finish,
as soon as he got on stage I quickly grabbed hold of our
Union Jack, it was obvious that we would most certainly
have a winner here.
Next class up was Men’s Classic Bodybuilding -175cm,
Ian Nelson was our guy in this class, Ian shocked me
with his condition at the Grand Prix and he had brought
it with him today.
Ian more than held his own in the class and made
the top 6 which was his goal, with some added mass
Ian will definitely be one to watch next year.
Gemma Lancaster was in Miss Fitness, straight off the
back of her NABBA Universe, Gemma was here to unify
the titles, but today was not going to be the day with
Portugal’s Diana Correia narrowly edging Gemma for
first place.
This was going to be Tony Bailey’s first WABBA
international contest, Tony is a 3 time UKBFF British
Champion so he used to competing in top level contests
and he had definitely brought his A-game here today,
Tony performed like a winner and left the judging panel
in no doubt that he should be crowned Mr. Universe
here today over Italy’s amazing Trofeo 2 Torri winner:
Emanuele D’Agostino.
We had 2 competitors in Classic Bodybuilding +175,
Baz Beattie and Sean Betts, both were in the best
condition of their lives but we’re muscled out by much
bigger guys in the lineup. Both guys know what they
have to do to improve and will be here next year to make
the impact that they know they can.
Sarah Williams and Sharon Madderson finishing 1st
and 2nd in 2016 was always going to be a tough act
to follow but we did it! Violet Schwarz and Angela
Kirkpatrick were the dominant force in this class and
the British flag got a third outing with the two ladies
reinforcing the UK’s dominance in this class.
The men’s Medium class was a real battle, some great
albeit, very different physiques were pitched in together
but it was the powerfully built Cristian Pancorbo from
Spain who took the top honour in this class.
We had 2 competitors in this class both from Wales,
Nik Joshi and Jasam Ahmed made up our Welsh
contingent, unfortunately neither Nik’s aesthetics or
Jasam’s grainy condition could break them into a very
MEN’S CLASSIC -175
MISS FITNESS
SHORT-170
MEN’S CLASSIC +175
MISS BODY
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