WABBA MR. AND MISS UNIVERSE 2017
MEN’S MEDIUM -175
MEN’S MODEL
MISS BIKINI OVER 35
TALL -180
MISS BIKINI -165
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FLEX | FEBRUARY 2018
tough top 6 all of which were very seasoned international
athletes.
Bikini Over 35 was a very tough class and with Niina
Gronqvist, DeeDee Nyx and Emma Pawson representing
the UK.
I knew we would be very competitive here. Emma
Pawson made a tremendous performance to take 5th
place, Emma moved really well and worked hard to keep
herself in the judge’s eyes.
The Men’s Medium class was a tough affair with
WABBA Veteran Matt Adams selflessly throwing himself
into the toughest class to ensure that we had a
representative in this class. The standard in this class
was incredible, the winner of this class was from
Hungary beating Saxon Gym’s Sergio Lima into a close
second.
TEAM GB had 3 athletes in the Miss Bikini -165 class:
Grand Prix winner Laura Hernandez who was joined by
CoreSport Classic winners Kate Sheard and Meisha
Micklewright in a tough line up. Meisha and Kate placed
and incredible 2nd and 4th respectively in a really close
top 6, an amazing result in their first WABBA International
outing.
The men’s Fitness Class was another tough class
with last year’s winner, Arold Triberti coming second
and GB’s Leo McNeill 7th.
The Ukraine maintained and strengthened their
reputation in the Bikini classes with an absolutely
stunning winner in the +165 class, regrettably neither
Monika Mikolajczyk, Sam Lau or Enrika Tarutyte Could
squeeze their way into the top 6.
There were some absolute monsters in Men’s
Bodybuilding Supertall, GB’s Wayne Niemiec found that
his extended journey had not helped his cause. Wayne
had struggled with the travelling and it all proved too
much and he didn’t place as well as he would have liked.
The Ukraine’s giant Volosov Vyacheslav took this class
and his Pro Card, he had nailed it today with undeniable
mass and hardness.
10 couples made this the toughest Couples class we
had ever had, Matt Adams and Gemma Lancaster were
here to emulate their 2015 success today but amongst
some great routines it was the Spanish duo Pancorbo/
Aldouni that took a controversial 1st place.
We had 3 representatives in the new Men’s Physique
class, the experienced Tony Reveglia was moving up a
class from Fitness and both Leon Mitchell and Lewis
Riches would be making their international debut here
but it was Lewis Riches incredible structure saw him
into the top 6 to finish a tremendous 3rd place.
With no Adaptive athletes present we moved straight
into our first Pro Bikini class which consisted of the
winners of the 4 Model and Bikini Classes here today