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Asian Amateur Championships 1997

Asian Amateur Championships 1997 was held in Asia. The Men's Open Bodybuilding - Bantamweight title went to Jung Bo Hun.

Year
1997
Date
Jan 1, 1997
Location
Asia
Federation
IFBB
Divisions
12
Competitors
88

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Asian Amateur Championships 1997 Results

Jung Bo Hun Champion

1997 Asia Jan 1, 1997

Asian Amateur Championships 1997 was held in Asia. The Men's Open Bodybuilding - Bantamweight title went to Jung Bo Hun.

Medium confidence Historical/community source Updated August 16, 2026 Accurate?

Defending BantamWeight champion Sazali Abdul Samad placed 2nd.

About this show

Men's Open Bodybuilding - Bantamweight, Men's Open Bodybuilding - Flyweight, Men's Open Bodybuilding - Heavyweight, Men's Open Bodybuilding - Heavyweight Junior, Men's Open Bodybuilding - Lightheavyweight, Men's Open Bodybuilding - Lightweight, Men's Open Bodybuilding - Lightweight Junior, Men's Open Bodybuilding - Middleweight and more were contested at the Asian Amateur Championships 1997 on January 1, 1997 in Asia. 88 athletes from 17 countries competed.

Top 3 Men's Open Bodybuilding - Bantamweight

1st
Jung Bo Hun
Jung Bo Hun
South Korea
2nd
Sazali Abdul Samad
Malaysia
3rd
Hiroshi Tsuda
Hiroshi Tsuda
Japan
Masters divisions 1

Men's Open Bodybuilding - Bantamweight

Place Athlete Country
1st Jung Bo Hun Title defense, 6th win here South Korea
2nd Sazali Abdul Samad Malaysia
3rd Hiroshi Tsuda Japan
4th Ibrahim Bin Sihat Singapore
5th Masayuki Kikuchi Japan
6th Chen Chi Ler Taiwan
7th Shinichi Tomita Japan
8th Maskifli Burut Brunei
9th Genady Cherkasov Kazakhstan
10th Li Qinghua China
11th Lei Kam Soi Mongolia

Official scores are unavailable.

Men's Open Bodybuilding - Flyweight

Place Athlete Country
1st T V Pauly First recorded win India
2nd Chang Dong Hyun South Korea
3rd Mohd Hanafiah Shufaat Singapore
4th Lee Lap Chi Hong Kong
5th Eiichi Ishikawa Japan
6th Mohd Ali Bin Sukardi Malaysia
7th Tsunehide Honda Japan
8th Shrikant Bangera India
9th Kent Ho Veng Kin Hong Kong
10th Yaram Bin Yaning Brunei

Official scores are unavailable.

Men's Open Bodybuilding - Heavyweight

Place Athlete Country
2nd Ramlan Ramli Singapore
3rd Kim Chor Chan Hong Kong
4th Bekshaev Alexahder Kazakhstan
participated Hamzeh Houdhmand Iran

Official scores are unavailable.

Men's Open Bodybuilding - Heavyweight Junior

Place Athlete Country
1st You Soo Jong First recorded win South Korea
2nd Koh Kah Heng Singapore
3rd Lakhbir Singh India
4th Wu Ping Sheng Taiwan
5th Lau Chi Kit Hong Kong
6th Ochir Ganbaatar Mongolia
7th Alan Ng Singapore

Official scores are unavailable.

Men's Open Bodybuilding - Lightheavyweight

Place Athlete Country
1st Mon Hyung Pil First recorded win South Korea
2nd Augustine Lee United States
3rd S O F Bin Syed Malaysia
4th Salukbaev Bakhtiyr Kazakhstan
participated Sunil Aptekar India

Official scores are unavailable.

Men's Open Bodybuilding - Lightweight

Place Athlete Country
1st Kim Myung Sub First recorded win South Korea
2nd Masahiro Yamamoto Japan
3rd Mohd Said Suib Singapore
4th Norman Ong Poh Heng Singapore
5th Cao Quoc Phu Vietnam
6th Chan Wooi Cheng Malaysia
7th Cheng Hai-Yuan Taiwan
8th Shiva Kumar India
9th Jumat Hj Jaludin Brunei
10th Erderebat Deleg Mongolia

Official scores are unavailable.

Men's Open Bodybuilding - Lightweight Junior

Place Athlete Country
1st Soe Moe Aung First recorded win Myanmar
2nd Le Co Ngoc Bao Vietnam
3rd Aung Khaing Win Myanmar
4th Kim Yun Sang South Korea
5th Samsuddin Bin Mohd Nor Malaysia
6th Toshimitsu Sato Japan
7th Lau Hing Ching Hong Kong
8th A P Joshi India
9th Hsieh Tung Chuan Taiwan

Official scores are unavailable.

Men's Open Bodybuilding - Middleweight

Place Athlete Country
1st Jung Bong Ki 2nd win here South Korea
2nd Liaw Teck Leong United States
3rd Katsuhiko Ueno Japan
4th Hassan Alsaka Syria
5th Pgzaman Apong Brunei
6th Ruzaini Hassan Singapore
7th Yu Te Le Taiwan
participated Sami Al Haddad United States
participated Gholam Reza Sadeghi Iran

Official scores are unavailable.

Men's Open Bodybuilding - Middleweight

Place Athlete Country
1st Ly Duc First recorded win Vietnam
2nd Kwon Man Geun South Korea
3rd Wang Shu Li China
4th Valeri Davudenko Kazakhstan
participated Mohsen Shaeri Iran

Official scores are unavailable.

Men's Open Bodybuilding - Welterweight

Place Athlete Country
1st Lee Tae Wo First recorded win South Korea
2nd Vitender Singh India
3rd Ko Cheng Hung Taiwan
4th Javaid Akhtar Pakistan
5th Kazumasa Suenaga Japan
6th Ibrahim Bin Shadan Malaysia
7th Lu Yun China
8th P K Arkhalidshah Brunei
9th Tan Yew Heng Singapore
10th Baterdene Lkhagva Mongolia
11th Hasnan Razak Brunei

Official scores are unavailable.

Women's Bodybuilding - Heavyweight

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

Place Athlete Country
1st Ko Jae Soo First recorded win South Korea

Official scores are unavailable.

Masters divisions

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

Other Divisions - Masters Men

Place Athlete Country
1st Teruo Aso 2nd win here Japan
2nd Saman Sohrab Sarabi Iran
3rd Man Cheuk Kwong China
4th Lee Dar Her Taiwan
5th Chandra Mohan Nayar India
6th Leong Va Kuan Mongolia

Official scores are unavailable.

Complete Results updated July 30, 2026 Source: MuscleMemory

This edition in context

Competitors
88
Divisions
12
Size rank
15 of 45

The biggest field since 1996.

Past winners of this event

Winner of the headline division for each edition of this event on record.
Year Winner Division
2017 Park Sun Yun Physique
2007 Qi Lili Figure Short

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