The Nigerian Lion goes from bronze to gold in
Though his journey to Orlando, FL didn’t end in a first-place end, Samson Dauda nonetheless impressed the judges sufficient to seize the bronze medal on the 2023 Mr. Olympia contest. Coming off a powerful exhibiting that noticed him make the leap from sixth to 3rd in his second Olympia look, the Nigerian Lion wasted no time stepping on stage once more.
Only one week after sharing the rostrum with newly crowned champion Derek Lunsford and 2022 winner Hadi Choopan, Dauda delivered a decisive win on the 2023 Romania Muscle Fest Professional. Held over the weekend of Nov. 10-12, 2023, opponents from 9 of the 11 IFBB Professional League divisions put their physiques on show in Bucharest, Romania, with Dauda taking house high honors within the Males’s Open class.
2023 Romania Muscle Fest Professional Division-by-Division Outcomes
The 2023 Romania Muscle Fest Professional featured 9 division battles — solely one in every of which ended with a Romanian native rising victorious. Listed here are the complete outcomes from the competition:
Males’s Open
Heading into the competition, most anticipated Samson Dauda to dominate the Males’s Open division — and the huge bodybuilder didn’t disappoint. The 2023 Arnold Classic winner secured his second victory of the 12 months (and a $10,000 prize) by besting 2022 Romania Muscle Fest Pro champion Behrooz Tabani Abarghani, who couldn’t compete on this 12 months’s Olympia as a result of visa points. Surprisingly, Nathan de Asha, who additionally missed the largest bodybuilding present of the 12 months after being denied entry into america, completed fourth.
- Samson Dauda (United Kingdom)
- Behrooz Tabani Abarghani (Iran)
- Marcello de Angelis Rezende (Brazil)
- Nathan De Asha (United Kingdom)
- Mohamed Foda (Egypt)
- Andrea Presti (Italy)
- Alfred Chiriac (Romania)
- Volodymyr Byruk (Ukraine)
- Jan Turek (Czech Republic)
- Kevin Brucher (Germany)
- Gianluca Di Lorenzo (Italy)
- Roberto Buonomo (Italy)
- Pavel Cervinka (Czech Republic)
- Hameed Juma (Bahrain)
- Anton Bippus (Denmark)
- Pavel Beran (Czech Republic)
212 Bodybuilding
Like Dauda, Ahmad Ali Ashkanani loved a extra profitable outing in Romania than he did in Florida. Coming off a fifth-place end within the Olympia 212 division, the Kuwait native secured his spot within the 2024 Olympia by ending forward of Giuseppe Zagarella and Radoslav Angelov, who took second and third, respectively.
- Ahmad Ali Ashkanani (Kuwait)
- Giuseppe Zagarella (Italy)
- Radoslav Angelov (Bulgaria)
- Alexandru Vasile Uta (Romania)
- Lucas Garcia (Brazil)
- Dawid Cnota (Poland)
- Daniel Vasilica (Romania)
- Vincent Alliot (France)
- Junior Pagula (Brazil)
- Morad Zahir (Morocco)
- Victor Eric Lopez Garcia (Mexico)
- Vincente Santamaria (Spain)
[Related: Chris Bumstead Claims Fifth Consecutive Classic Physique Championship at 2023 Mr. Olympia]
Basic Physique
Having already received the 2023 Europa Professional again in September, Wesley Vissers earned his second professional present win of the 12 months. The Basic Physique competitor completed seventh on the 2023 Olympia and can look to enhance upon that mark in Las Vegas, NV, on Oct. 10-13, 2024.
- Wesley Vissers (Netherlands)
- Ruben Lopez Reyes (Spain)
- Alexander Westermeier (Germany)
- Sebastien Theurel (France)
- Ali Shams Ghamar (Iran)
- George Achampong (Denmark)
- Nicolas Alberto Concepcion (Philippines)
- Mehmed Mehmedov (Bulgaria)
- Chris Pistolas (Greece)
- Pekka Kotipohja (Finland)
- Milos Stojanovic (Serbia)
- Francesco Della Vedova (Italy)
- Karol Rogaczewski (Poland)
- Luc Andre Steinker (Germany)
- Fernando Gornals Margol (Spain)
- Alberto Milani (Italy)
Males’s Physique
Stepping on stage for the primary time for the reason that 2022 Warsaw Professional, Miroslav Juricek made probably the most of his return with a clear sweep of first-place votes. Consequently, the Czech Republic native will get to make his Olympia debut subsequent 12 months.
- Miroslav Juricek (Czech Republic)
- Caike DeOliveira (USA)
- Furker Er (Turkey)
- Mohammad Ali (Austria)
- Jeffrey Darko (United Kingdom)
- Alessandro Cavagnola (Italy)
- Mauro Fialho (Spain)
- Alexandru Panek (Romania)
- Alessandro Colacchi (Italy)
- Andrea Amato (Italy)
- Andrea Antonelli (Italy)
- Giuseppe Riserbato (Italy)
- Jaime Maso Lopez (Spain)
- Hamad Al-doseri (Bahrain)
- Oskar Tchorzewski (Poland)
- Mishal Alhassan (Saudi Arabia) — Tied for sixteenth
- Aryan Ali (Germany) — Tied for sixteenth
- Nasreddine Bouakouk (Algeria) — Tied for sixteenth
- Nikolay Rashkov (Bulgaria) — Tied for sixteenth
- Jose Luis Rivas (Spain) — Tied for sixteenth
Girls’s Bodybuilding
Leyvina Rodrigues Barros cemented her case as one of many high feminine bodybuilders on this planet by parlaying her well-balanced physique right into a well-earned victory within the Girls’s Bodybuilding division. After ending nicely exterior the highest 10 in her Olympia debut in 2022, she is going to look to vault up the standings within the 2024 contest.
- Leyvina Rodrigues Barros (Brazil)
- Anastasia Korableva (Romania)
- Tiana Flex (South Africa)
- MayLa Ash (USA)
- Barbara de Freitas Moojen (Brazil)
- Hagit Seindlis (Israel)
- Jacqueline Fuchs (Switzerland)
- Viktoria Knysh (UAE)
- Gemma Lancaster (United Kingdom)
- Ivana Dvorakova (Czech Republic)
- Simone Ellis (England)
[Related: Try This Beginner Bodybuilding Routine If You’re Looking To Build Mass]
Girls’s Physique
Raluca Raducu represented Romania nicely by narrowly beating out runner-up Caroline Alves Dos Santos for the Girls’s Physique division title. A one-point benefit allowed the IFBB Professional to stamp her ticket to the 2024 Olympia.
- Raluca Raducu (Romania)
- Caroline Alves Dos Santos (Brazil)
- Sahar Rahmani (Iran)
- Natalia Bystrova (Russia)
- Silvia Cuartero Martinez (Spain)
- Julia Glazycheva (Russia)
- Jo Kelly (United Kingdom)
- Modesta Halby (Denmark)
- Marina Kassinopoullou (Cyprus)
- Emilija Martic (Canada)
- Tanya Chartrand (Canada)
- Petra Osterwald (Switzerland)
- Dany Jacot-Descombes (Switzerland)
- Christina Kremser (Austria)
- Sarah Crail (Australia)
- Emilia Balkova (Bulgaria) — Tied for sixteenth
- Tatiana Bulut (Turkey) — Tied for sixteenth
- Cristina Chatti (Spain) — Tied for sixteenth
- Diana Hristova (Bulgaria) — Tied for sixteenth
- Lisa Kurzamann (Austria) — Tied for sixteenth
- Laura Pyszora (United Kingdom) — Tied for sixteenth
- Natalia Spierings (United Kingdom) — Tied for sixteenth
Determine
Two years faraway from incomes runner-up standing on the Romania Muscle Fest Professional, Tereza Linhartova took house the title within the Determine division. Her ultra-sculpted physique and posing abilities gave her the decisive edge over Romanian Stefana Sandu.
- Tereza Linhartova (Czech Republic)
- Stefana Sandu (Romania)
- Rejoice Godwin (Spain)
- Jennifer Reece (Canada)
- Jennifer Zienert (Germany)
- Sonja Ivanov (Germany)
- Daiane Aparecida Freitas (Brazil)
- Maria Ignacia Mas Delgado (Spain)
- Veronica Gallego Garcia (Spain)
- Anna Kohckar (Ukraine)
- Behnaz Nasrollahi Azar (Germany)
- Charlotte Goubet (France)
- Helen Zavitsanou Pistolas (Greece)
- Yadviga Zakurina (Russia)
- Maria Ignacia Mas Delgado (Brazil)
- Reem Albareeq (Bahrain) — Tied for sixteenth
- Vanessa Happle (Germany) — Tied for sixteenth
- Cristina Araujo Silva (Spain) — Tied for sixteenth
- Lubomira Steftcheva (Bulgaria) — Tied for sixteenth
Bikini
After settling for second place on the 2023 Italian Olympus Professional again in October, Alice Marchisio achieved her purpose of incomes a gold medal. Her first professional win offers her an opportunity to compete within the Olympia.
- Alice Marchisio (Italy)
- Valerya Fedorenko (Ukraine)
- Giuditta Taccani (Italy)
- Dorottya Zoe Toth (Hungary)
- Kerry Sexton (United Kingdom)
- Rania Stamatiadou (Greece)
- Irene Iravedra Cunarro (Spain)
- Violeta Palamarchuk (Ukraine)
- Lorena Blanco (Spain)
- Andrina Scharli (Switzerland)
- Luca Katai (Hungary)
- Sara Lujza Rogacsi (Hungary)
- Mara Carro (Germany)
- Natalia Koursari (Greece)
- Aleksandra Duba (Poland)
- Johanna Durr (Germany) — Tied for sixteenth
- Noemi Lavacca (Italy) — Tied for sixteenth
- Anna Thaarup (Denmark) — Tied for sixteenth
[Related: Major Change to Mr. Olympia Qualification System Will Have Immediate Impact on 2023 Contest]
Wellness
Regardless of being one of many final opponents to enter the present, Gisele Machado proved she’s nonetheless a drive to be reckoned with within the Wellness division. The Brazilian bodybuilder claimed her fourth professional present victory of 2023 in lopsided style, incomes unanimous first-place votes. Though she didn’t compete within the 2023 Olympia, Machado ought to take the stage in Las Vegas in 2024.
- Gisele Machado (Brazil)
- Paula Dominguez (Spain)
- Sandra Colorado Acal (Spain)
- Klaudia Vanessza Csuri (Ukraine)
- Dainora Dvarionaite (Lithuania)
- Lexy Oliver (Italy)
- Valentina Mabrouk (Italy)
- Houda Hmini (Morocco)
- Rosa Benadero Munoz (Spain)
- Laleska Bruschi (Brazil)
- Lisa Beck (Germany)
- Carlotta Tonelli (Italy)
- Marjelle De Cock (Belgium)
- Lenia Fernandes (Portugal)
- Laurene Gaudelier (France)
- Celandine Holenweg (Switzerland) — Tied for sixteenth
- Lidia Melero (Spain) — Tied for sixteenth
Featured Picture: Samson Dauda / Instagram
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