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Arnold Amateur Europe 2016

Arnold Amateur Europe 2016 was held in Madrid, Spain. The Men's Open Bodybuilding title went to Béla Kökény.

Year
2016
Date
Mar 1, 2016
Location
Madrid, Spain
Federation
IFBB
Divisions
28
Competitors
400

Results by Division

Division Winner Runner-up
Men's Open Bodybuilding Béla Kökény Avraam Kyriacou
Men's Open Bodybuilding - Heavyweight Manuel Cañadillas Tomas Tabaciar
Men's Open Bodybuilding - Junior Pavel Beran Luke Debono
Men's Open Bodybuilding - Lightheavyweight Jozef Furin Mihoubi Zoheir
Men's Open Bodybuilding - Lightweight Jonay Messa Navarro Wael Ali Omar
Men's Open Bodybuilding - Middleweight Rafel Beltran Arenillas Alessandro Zuccaro
Men's Open Bodybuilding - Middleweight Benjamin Reinata Ott Kiivikas
Men's Open Bodybuilding - Superheavyweight Luke Debono Jordi Martinez Zafra
Men's Open Bodybuilding - Welterweight Carles Viñals Abedalrahman Bahlawan
Men's Classic Physique - Class A Andrej Varga Aristide Mbomni Tiam
Men's Classic Physique - Class B Jordi Romero Marsal Jaime Vergara
Men's Classic Physique - Class C Jacek Ratusznik Gábor Dénes
Men's Physique - Class A
Men's Physique - Class B Cristina Arellano
Women's Physique - Class A
Women's Physique - Class A Priscila Cavilha Evelaine Rocha
Women's Physique - Class B Valentina Mishina
Women's Figure - Class A Szandra Hidasi Silvia Cecchinato
Women's Figure - Class B Svetlana Fiskova Alejandra Ayala
Women's Figure - Class C Melinda Mercz Natalia Skulkina
Women's Figure - Class D Tea Save Eszter Urbán-Zsilák
Women's Figure - Junior Tea Save Montserrat Gil Segura
Women's Figure - Masters Marta Alešiūnaitė Katalin Jasztrab
Other Divisions - Masters 40+ Heavyweight Manuel Cañadillas Francisco Corral
Other Divisions - Masters 40+ Lightweight Filippo Masucci Abedalrahman Bahlawan
Other Divisions - Masters 40+ Middleweight Ralf Szesny Jose Luis Fernandez
Other Divisions - Masters 50+ Jose Carlos Rebolo Anastasios Koligionis
Other Divisions - Masters 60+ Giacomo Carofiglio Domenico DeLuca
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Arnold Amateur Europe 2016

Béla Kökény Champion

2016 Madrid, Spain Feb 29, 2016

Arnold Amateur Europe 2016 was held in Madrid, Spain. The Men's Open Bodybuilding title went to Béla Kökény.

Medium confidence Historical/community source Updated August 13, 2026 Accurate?

Defending Physique A champion Ekaterina Grima, who won in 2015, did not return.

Top 3 Men's Open Bodybuilding

1st
Béla Kökény
Béla Kökény
United States
2nd
Avraam Kyriacou
Avraam Kyriacou
United States
3rd
Killie Kujala
Killie Kujala
Canada

Arnold Amateur Europe 2016 contested 28 divisions across 400 athletes, 22 open and 6 age-restricted Masters, competitors from 38 countries. Béla Kökény took Men's Open Bodybuilding. 25 divisions crowned a champion; each is judged independently. No round scores were published for this event, so placings are shown without them.

Best represented Spain (159) - United States (54) - United Kingdom (26)

22 open divisions. Scroll the list to reach the rest.

Masters divisions 6

Men's Open Bodybuilding

Men's Open Bodybuilding - Heavyweight

Place Athlete Country
1st Manuel Cañadillas First Arnold Amateur Europe title -
2nd Tomas Tabaciar -
3rd Mohammad Shaban -
4th Hameed Juma United Kingdom
5th Ashot Kagramanian Spain
6th Luis Llorente Spain
7th Rafał Filipczuk -
8th Marc Hector United Kingdom
9th Gustavo Butron Agullo Spain
10th Jose Miguel Ponce Muiño Argentina
11th Gérald Lopez France
12th Marko Petričević -
13th Nick Thomas United States
14th Salvatore Romano Spain

Official scores are unavailable.

Men's Open Bodybuilding - Junior

Place Athlete Country
1st Pavel Beran First recorded win -
2nd Luke Debono Spain
3rd Mike Sommerfeld Germany
4th Pablo Llopis Spain
5th Wesley Vissers Netherlands
6th Pavel Červinka -
7th Vladimir Iacovlev -
8th Jose Levi Martinez Vargas Mexico
9th Alexandru Roberto Mihaita Spain
10th Abdulrahman Trabulsy Spain
participated Niels Nijsmans Spain
participated Kristian Pikulik Spain
participated Florian Poirson France
participated Pedro Soto Molero Spain
participated Christian Tozzi Spain
participated Jan Zapletal Spain
participated Nikolaos Mousounidis Spain
participated Romeo Mansueto Spain
participated Morfakis Agridiotis Spain
participated Uulu Keldibek Ataibek Spain
participated William Dos Santos Spain
participated Mark Farkas Spain
participated Carel Frederick Grobler Spain
participated Miron Heinze Spain
participated Harald Lehner Spain
participated Nicola Leonetti Spain

Official scores are unavailable.

Men's Open Bodybuilding - Lightheavyweight

Place Athlete Country
1st Jozef Furin United States
2nd Mihoubi Zoheir United States
3rd Grego Francisca -
4th Manuel Francisco Duarte Fernandes -
5th Jorge Zamorano Avila Portugal
6th Vasyl Remizov United States
7th Atanas Nikolaev Spain
8th Daler Ismatov United States
9th Abdel Wadoud Bayoumi -
10th Andrei Melnikov -
11th Sabit Kelmendi Spain
participated Andreas Ofner -
participated Vincente Olombrada United States
participated Krzysztof Reinhard Spain
participated Luis Ricardo Plata Duran -
participated Dylan Ridley Spain
participated Sergei Taranukho Spain
participated Tiago Marques Spain
participated Jozef Nagy Spain
participated Andrey Maslennikov -
participated Ali Wehbi Spain
participated Ruben Lopez Reyes -
participated Paolo Caruccio United States
participated Fabio Carneiro Spain
participated Pieshtewan Altalabani -
participated Georgi Kiryakov Spain
participated Jose Huete Alvarez Spain
participated Adnan Gosto -
participated Marjan Frengiev Spain
participated Arturo Esquivel Ramirez Mexico
participated Bryan Chancusig Cartagena Spain

Official scores are unavailable.

Men's Open Bodybuilding - Lightweight

Place Athlete Country
1st Jonay Messa Navarro First recorded win Spain
2nd Wael Ali Omar -
3rd Massimo Casalena Spain
4th Jean Michel Bosch France
5th Daniel Sticco -
6th Nour El Kaaki Spain
7th Manuel Luque Rufian Spain
8th Daniel Zammit Spain
9th Jose Lopez Vazquez Spain
10th David Henriques France
11th Anas Mohammed Abdulfatah Spain
12th Gordon Singh United Kingdom
13th Ahmad Hussain Alblooshi Spain
14th Alexandre Bozonnet France
15th Darwin Salazar Ilangari Spain

Official scores are unavailable.

Men's Open Bodybuilding - Middleweight

Place Athlete Country
1st Rafel Beltran Arenillas First recorded win -
2nd Alessandro Zuccaro United States
3rd Julio Portet United States
4th Muneer Jasssas Spain
5th Richard Varrucciu France
6th Andriy Sharapov United States
7th Martin Especht Campos Spain
8th Kushtrim Bajraktaraj Spain
9th Lukáš Brunclík Spain
10th Omar Riahi Spain
11th Giorgi Gambashidze Spain
12th Antanas Šimokaitis Spain

Official scores are unavailable.

Men's Open Bodybuilding - Middleweight

Place Athlete Country
1st Benjamin Reinata First recorded win Spain
2nd Ott Kiivikas Estonia
3rd Osman Palomino Mosquera Spain
4th Simone Meiattini United States
5th Franck Colingro France
6th Ben Abdellah Abdekader -
7th Talib Fadhil Beg Spain
8th Jose Luis Fernandez Colombia
9th Jury Kruber Germany
10th Soufiane Abid United States
participated Aleksey Borisov -
participated Juan Antonio Caballero Spain
participated Kevin Fedolak France
participated Remus Heredeu Spain
participated Gianni Iacono Spain
participated Fabian Kraft -
participated Hewa Mawlood Spain
participated Peeshkawt Nimat Najm -
participated Dusan Nikovic Spain
participated Killian O'Toole Spain
participated Roderick Theuma -
participated Kaan Yilal United Kingdom

Official scores are unavailable.

Men's Open Bodybuilding - Superheavyweight

Men's Open Bodybuilding - Welterweight

Place Athlete Country
1st Carles Viñals First recorded win Spain
2nd Abedalrahman Bahlawan Spain
3rd Hector Defez Beltrani Spain
4th Alberto Velez Contreras Spain
5th Jorge Pardo Berruezo Spain
6th Maksim Nikolaev -
7th Feras Tahan -
8th Liaquant Balch Spain
9th Ignacio Varela Paya Spain
10th Antonio Bellaroba United States
11th Slavisa Djordjevic Spain
12th Kelton Thomas Trinidad and Tobago
13th Dejan Paunovski Spain
14th Clive Sammut Spain

Official scores are unavailable.

Men's Classic Physique - Class A

Place Athlete Country
1st Andrej Varga First recorded win United States
2nd Aristide Mbomni Tiam -
3rd Patrik Kasra Spain
4th Leonardo Caceres Vazquez Spain
5th Ionut Dragomir Spain
7th Anas Mohammed Abdulfatah Spain
8th Antonio Ludovico United States
9th Francisco Ramalho Spain
10th Theodosiou Theodosis Spain
11th Angelo LaPia Spain
12th Vinnie Thurairasu United Kingdom
participated Sergio Costa Spain
participated Adrian Muria Guiral Spain
participated Rayan Moocharrafie Spain
participated Ruben Melenchon Rodriguez Spain
participated Mohammad Obaid Ibrahim Spain
participated Juan Herrero Jimenez Spain
participated David Flores Plans Spain
participated Joseph Doutau United States
participated Juan DiCarlo Spain
participated Miguel Pichel Garcia Spain
participated Dan Andrei Rauti Spain
participated Lee Stanworth United Kingdom
participated Hamdan Saif Saeed Spain

Official scores are unavailable.

Men's Classic Physique - Class B

Place Athlete Country
1st Jordi Romero Marsal First recorded win -
2nd Jaime Vergara United States
3rd Andrey Ulanov Spain
4th Antonio DeLaTorre -
5th Ionut Adrian Marasoiu -
6th Austin Williams United States
7th Rustum Ali United Kingdom
8th Cristian Carjaliu United States
9th Abdulla Majid Al Allaq Spain
10th Martin Haralampiev Spain
11th Mateusz Szafran Spain
participated Tibor Vékony Spain
participated Nasser Saif Hamad Spain
participated Dejan Guzej Spain
participated Enrico Gilio -
participated Daniele D'Onofrio United States
participated Lukasz Chwaszcza Spain
participated Nebojsa Basaric Spain
participated Reno Banks United Kingdom
participated Aleh Babinich Spain
participated Mohammad Saif Al Ramahi Spain

Official scores are unavailable.

Men's Classic Physique - Class C

Place Athlete Country
1st Jacek Ratusznik United States
2nd Gábor Dénes -
3rd Štefek Lumír Spain
4th Omid Kiana Spain
5th Aleksei Imeriakov Spain
6th Tomasz Kopec Spain
7th Andrei Mansh Spain
8th Denys Hrytsenko -
9th Samuel Zapata Belchi -
10th Francisco Galvan Torres -
11th Kakha Joglidze Spain
participated Sergio Salvador Botella Spain
participated Joao Celestino Spain
participated Kristian Pikulik Spain
participated Jacek Patorski United States
participated Kurt Pascual Australia
participated Miran Kovac Spain
participated Domagoj Jakovac Spain
participated Konur Denli United States
participated Jan-Eric Christiansen Spain
participated Riko Cetin Spain
participated Rok Stern Spain

Official scores are unavailable.

Men's Physique - Class A

Only the winner of this division was recorded by the source. The full placings are not in the database.

Place Athlete Country
3rd Andrijana Dabic Austria

Official scores are unavailable.

Men's Physique - Class B

Place Athlete Country
2nd Cristina Arellano Spain
3rd Gordana Ević Croatia
4th Vasiliki Moutopoulou Greece
8th Agnieszka Łuczak Poland

Official scores are unavailable.

Women's Physique - Class A

Place Athlete Country
6th Andrea Felici -
participated Denise Vaganov Spain

Official scores are unavailable.

Women's Physique - Class A

Place Athlete Country
1st Priscila Cavilha First recorded win United States
2nd Evelaine Rocha United States
4th Caroline Bovelet Germany
5th Laura Hammelstrup Denmark
6th Bamar Klap Netherlands
7th Barbara Jenni Switzerland
8th Silvia Eiras Gonzalez Spain

Official scores are unavailable.

Women's Physique - Class B

Place Athlete Country
1st Valentina Mishina First recorded win United States
5th Natalia Shatokhina-Artemiou United States
6th Modesta Halby Denmark
7th Elenóra Volter Hungary
9th Ivana Mahrikova United Kingdom
10th Maddalena Lonati Italy
11th Julia Föry Switzerland
12th Debbie Verstraeten Belgium
13th Monica Adah Israel

Official scores are unavailable.

Women's Figure - Class A

Place Athlete Country
1st Szandra Hidasi First recorded win Hungary
2nd Silvia Cecchinato Italy
3rd Lill Nikolaisen United States
4th Daiva Žuvaitiené Lithuania
5th Monica Ponte Moimenta Spain
6th Nancy Jones United Kingdom
7th Mariangela Maglioli Italy
8th Pilar Rojas Martinez Spain
9th Vanessa Soares Portugal
10th Mabel Fernandez Spain
11th Katarzyna Ludowicz Poland
12th Brennda Mattos Iceland
13th Kamila Rzeszowska Ireland
14th Maria Asprou Cyprus
15th Shaheena Patel United Arab Emirates

Official scores are unavailable.

Women's Figure - Class B

Place Athlete Country
1st Svetlana Fiskova First recorded win Russia
2nd Alejandra Ayala Argentina
3rd Samantha Forbes United Kingdom
4th Agnes Josura Switzerland
5th Laura Guillen Serrano Spain
6th Marta Alešiūnaitė Lithuania
7th Barbara Kiss United Kingdom
8th Laurene Gaudelier France
9th Aigul Anisimova Russia
10th Brigitte Subrin France
11th Sara Jensen United States
12th Maria Bozinovska Spain
13th Karine Delatte Belgium
participated Clare Barks United Kingdom
participated Nina Addo Germany
participated Gianna Baeza Pinto Chile
participated Elisa Maiorana Italy
participated Ekaterina Golovneva Russia
participated Monya Forte Italy
participated Rezarta Dushku Italy
participated Rebecca Caydas United Kingdom

Official scores are unavailable.

Women's Figure - Class C

Place Athlete Country
1st Melinda Mercz First recorded win Hungary
2nd Natalia Skulkina Russia
3rd Tresca Trott Bermuda
4th Tatyana Tymoshenko Switzerland
5th Melissa Nicola United Kingdom
6th Eva Rusan Croatia
7th Marirose Tarkmanian Cyprus
8th Anna Halejak Poland
9th Claudia Galhoti United States
10th Michelle Leach United Kingdom
participated Ines Teixeira Berthelot Portugal
participated Ágnes Tüske Hungary
participated Valeria Zoppi Italy
participated Jelena Djordjevic United States
participated Jana Cocherová Czech Republic
participated Ramona Bulina Latvia
participated Katarzyna Dudek Poland
participated Silvia Guillen Martin Spain
participated Barbara Lorenzetto Italy
participated Nieves Lopez Rodriguez Spain
participated Kristina Kuznetsova Russia
participated Evgenia Kostoula Greece
participated Yanina Khalina Ukraine
participated Rocio Hernandez Gomez Spain
participated Ethel Heredia Appa Spain
participated Candice Hackney France
participated Olaya Marrero Pelaez Spain

Official scores are unavailable.

Women's Figure - Class D

Place Athlete Country
1st Tea Save Title defense, 3rd win here Switzerland
2nd Eszter Urbán-Zsilák Hungary
3rd Natalia Vikhrova Russia
4th Anna Kalugina Russia
5th Maria Herranz Garcia Spain
6th Connie Slyziut United Kingdom
7th Kristina Chekmeneva Russia
8th Natasha McFarlane United Kingdom
9th Therese Berglund Sweden
10th Caroline Caine United Kingdom
11th Iuliia Averkina Russia
participated Ingrid Sciortino Switzerland
participated Lisa Drexler Germany
participated Hannah Marie Barry United Kingdom
participated Željka Dzafic Estebane Bosnia
participated Anna Giokala Greece
participated Rosemarie Roodenburg Netherlands
participated Marzena Mika Italy
participated Adalgisa Mendes Italy
participated Ileana Melloni Italy
participated Olga Petrova Russia
participated Michelle Lindop Denmark
participated Lisa Kelly United Kingdom

Official scores are unavailable.

Women's Figure - Junior

Place Athlete Country
1st Tea Save Switzerland
2nd Montserrat Gil Segura Spain
3rd Connie Slyziut United Kingdom
4th Simona Kastl Austria
5th Gema Vera Collantes Spain
6th Sara Jensen United States
7th Claudia Altes Lucas Spain
8th Yanina Khalina Ukraine
9th Aneta Brožková Czech Republic

Official scores are unavailable.

Masters divisions

Age-graded classes, judged separately from the open divisions above.

Women's Figure - Masters

Place Athlete Country
1st Marta Alešiūnaitė First recorded win Lithuania
2nd Katalin Jasztrab Hungary
3rd Maribel Barnes Spain
4th Tresca Trott Bermuda
5th Natalia Vikhrova Russia
6th Lill Nikolaisen United States
7th Eszter Urbán-Zsilák Hungary
8th Claudia Galhoti United States
9th Silvia Guillen Martin Spain
10th Michelle Leach United Kingdom
participated Romina Laura Lameiro Argentina
participated Vaness Marquez Spain
participated Ileana Melloni Italy
participated Nadezhda Petrova Russia
participated Ana Prieto Garcia Spain
participated Ingrid Sciortino Switzerland
participated Brigitte Subrin France
participated Julie Tomkins United Kingdom
participated Valeria Zoppi Italy
participated Sally Knights United Kingdom
participated Pia Jansson Sweden
participated Anikó Vörös Hungary
participated Iuliia Averkina Russia
participated Claire Clugston United Kingdom
participated Jana Cocherová Czech Republic
participated Željka Dzafic Estebane Bosnia
participated Monya Forte Italy
participated Ethel Heredia Appa Spain

Official scores are unavailable.

Other Divisions - Masters 40+ Heavyweight Men

Other Divisions - Masters 40+ Lightweight Men

Place Athlete Country
1st Filippo Masucci First recorded win United States
2nd Abedalrahman Bahlawan Spain
3rd Juan Francisco Martin -
4th Andriy Sharapov United States
5th Massimiliano Saccone -
6th Slavisa Djordjevic Spain
7th Enrique Montoya Campaña Spain
8th Antonio Bellaroba United States
9th Ignacio Varela Paya Spain
10th Mauricio Villatoro Poloni -
11th Jose Figueroa United States
12th Decebal Olteanu -
13th Ahmad Hussain Alblooshi Spain

Official scores are unavailable.

Other Divisions - Masters 40+ Middleweight Men

Place Athlete Country
1st Ralf Szesny Germany
2nd Jose Luis Fernandez Colombia
3rd Vasyl Remizov United States
4th Gianni Iacono Spain
5th Luis Ricardo Plata Duran -
6th Simone Meiattini United States
7th Luca Merola Spain
8th Pedro Tenreiro -
9th Rafael DePedro Redondo Spain
10th Mario Brignoli Spain
11th Rene Fraga Stunf Spain
12th Tomas Kybartas Spain
13th Faisal Abdulla Farhan -

Official scores are unavailable.

Other Divisions - Masters 50+ Men

Place Athlete Country
1st Jose Carlos Rebolo 2nd win here United States
2nd Anastasios Koligionis United States
3rd Rafael Arana Gonzales -
4th Anselmo Cortado Spain
5th Carlos Menendez -
6th Francesco Casolari Spain
7th Roberto Massagli Spain
8th Peter Bendtsen Spain
9th Joachim Grässel -
10th Mossad Ragab Spain
11th Stefano Favalli Spain
12th Rafael Martinez Manzano Spain
13th Aleksandar Rakocevic -
14th Philippe Keutgen United States

Official scores are unavailable.

Other Divisions - Masters 60+ Men

Place Athlete Country
1st Giacomo Carofiglio First recorded win Spain
2nd Domenico DeLuca United States
3rd Cornelius Schweizer United States
4th Gilles Pomerleau Canada
5th Milan Bodlák United States
6th Mario Pace United States
7th Wolfgang Ketterer Spain
8th Luis Etchartea Vegh Spain
9th Georges Louisy United States

Official scores are unavailable.

Complete Results updated July 30, 2026 Source: MuscleMemory

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Competitors
400
Divisions
28
Size rank
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