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World Amateur Championships 2016

World Amateur Championships 2016 was held in USA. The Men's Open Bodybuilding title went to Behrooz Tabani Abarghani.

Year
2016
Date
Nov 15, 2016
Location
USA
Federation
IFBB
Divisions
33
Competitors
429

Results by Division

Division Winner Runner-up
Men's Open Bodybuilding Behrooz Tabani Abarghani Hassan Khosravi
Men's Open Bodybuilding - Bantamweight Park Kyung Mo Ayoob Razouki Ismail Alammar
Men's Open Bodybuilding - Heavyweight Jafar Ghaffarnezhad Azizi Meysam Keshvari
Men's Open Bodybuilding - Heavyweight Junior Esteban Zeballos Vaca Chams El Bey
Men's Open Bodybuilding - Lightheavyweight Hossein Kalateh Carlos Pereira
Men's Open Bodybuilding - Lightweight Mahdi Heydari Abdulla Said Al Jabri
Men's Open Bodybuilding - Lightweight Junior Sifiso Thabete Naotaka Yokokawa
Men's Open Bodybuilding - Middleweight Masashi Suzuki Kim Seong Hwan
Men's Open Bodybuilding - Middleweight Sajad Niknampour Haitham Al Zadjali
Men's Open Bodybuilding - Superheavyweight Jordi Martinez Zafra Attia Shaalan
Men's Open Bodybuilding - Welterweight Nam Kyoung Yun Romeo Zon
Men's Classic Physique - Class A Seyedroohollah Mirnoorollahi Seol Ki Kwan
Men's Classic Physique - Class B Mahdi Parvani Fawaz Alhalawa
Men's Classic Physique - Class C Lee Ju Hoon Julian Paredes
Men's Classic Physique - Class D Andrii Buzovetskyi Jordi Romero Marsal
Men's Classic Physique - Class E Keyvan Rezapour Hesam Khosravi Larijani
Men's Classic Physique - Junior Michal Zaukolec Jakub Prchal
Women's Physique - Class C
Women's Figure - Junior Heidrun Ertsaas Jitka Vorlová
Men's Classic Physique - Masters 40+ Antonio DeLaTorre Aristidis Nikolopoulos
Men's Classic Physique - Masters 50+ Johnny Grape Yuu Hahashi
Men's Physique - Masters 35+
Women's Physique - Masters 35+ Birgit Andersch Luciana Cardosa
Women's Figure - 35+ Eva Berenguer Nora Martinez
Women's Figure - 45+ Nina Indset Rosario Gomez
Other Divisions - Masters 40+ Heavyweight Manuel Cañadillas Francisco Corral
Other Divisions - Masters 40+ Lightheavyweight Mariusz Balazinski Mohammed Sabah
Other Divisions - Masters 40+ Lightweight Alain Pages Arturo Cabral
Other Divisions - Masters 40+ Middleweight Esequiel Alves Conceição Oscar Luis Marin
Other Divisions - Masters 50+ Heavyweight Thomas Scheu Iñigo Ortiz DeMendivil
Other Divisions - Masters 50+ Lightweight Luiz Carlos Pereira Sarmento Philippe Eichler
Other Divisions - Masters 60+ Alexander Yashankin Michel Vossier
Other Divisions - Masters 65+ Rafael Vera Paweł Przedlaski
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World Amateur Championships 2016 Results

2016 USA Nov 15, 2016

World Amateur Championships 2016 was held in USA. The Men's Open Bodybuilding title went to Behrooz Tabani Abarghani.

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

Defending Junior Physique champion Aneta Tomanova, who won in 2015, did not return.

About this show

Men's Open Bodybuilding, Men's Open Bodybuilding - Bantamweight, 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 World Amateur Championships 2016 on November 15, 2016 in USA. 429 athletes from 37 countries competed.

Top 3 Men's Open Bodybuilding

2nd
Hassan Khosravi
Hassan Khosravi
Iran
3rd
Eslam Mohamed
Eslam Mohamed
United States

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

Masters divisions 14

Men's Open Bodybuilding

Place Athlete Country
1st Behrooz Tabani Abarghani First recorded win -
2nd Hassan Khosravi Iran
3rd Eslam Mohamed United States
4th Marti Pozzi Tena United States
5th Reza Kakavand United States
6th Andriy Kukharchuk Russia
7th David Boix Andreu Canada
8th Roman Dudushkin United States
9th Vladislav Kuznetsov Spain
10th Antonio Furić United States
participated Schaban Osmani United States
participated Patrick Monga Lisumbu United States
participated Amr Alaa Ali Hidar United States
participated Afrem Afrem United States

Official scores are unavailable.

Men's Open Bodybuilding - Bantamweight

Men's Open Bodybuilding - Heavyweight

Place Athlete Country
1st Jafar Ghaffarnezhad Azizi First recorded win Australia
2nd Meysam Keshvari United States
3rd Szymon Lada United States
4th Manuel Cañadillas -
5th Luis Llorente Spain
6th Peter Tatarka United States
7th Jimmy Gomes Lima -
8th Abdallah Al Rahbi United States
9th Tomasz Kornalewski United States
10th Lee Jin Ho South Korea
participated Patrizio Vaiano United States
participated Caglayan Kuzu United States
participated Pavel Ivanov United States
participated Abdel Wadoud Bayoumi -

Official scores are unavailable.

Men's Open Bodybuilding - Heavyweight Junior

Place Athlete Country
1st Esteban Zeballos Vaca United States
2nd Chams El Bey United States
3rd Muratcan Karahasanlar United States
4th Antonio Arguelles United States
5th Francisco Barrios Vlk Argentina
6th Larnell Fredericks United States
7th Darwin Uribe United States
8th Alexis Dubois Canada
9th Hasan Hakat United States

Official scores are unavailable.

Men's Open Bodybuilding - Lightheavyweight

Place Athlete Country
1st Hossein Kalateh First recorded win -
2nd Carlos Pereira United States
3rd Grego Francisca -
4th Joel Pascua United States
5th Saeed Moammer Yaznabad United States
6th Kim Myong Hun South Korea
7th Tomas Bendoraitis -
8th Joan Cannegieter -
9th Sergio Dufort -
10th Vasyl Remizov United States
participated Rogerio Barradas -
participated Mohammed Ahmed Mahamed Ali United States
participated Ilkay Beyga United States
participated Tristan Van Aarde United States
participated Manuel Francisco Duarte Fernandes -
participated Jorge Cunha -
participated Vincente Olombrada United States

Official scores are unavailable.

Men's Open Bodybuilding - Lightweight

Place Athlete Country
1st Mahdi Heydari First recorded win United States
2nd Abdulla Said Al Jabri United States
3rd Jonay Messa Navarro Spain
4th Makoto Tashiro Japan
5th Fawaz Alhalawa United States
6th Marcin Kosel United States
7th Kim Yong Gyu United States
8th Mohamed Fathy Abdelgawad United States
9th Angelo Corrado Maggiore United States
10th Daniel Sticco -
participated Kelton Thomas Trinidad and Tobago
participated Wael Ali Omar -
participated Serkan Kinik United States
participated Sadik Kesici United States
participated Antonio Herrera United States
participated Alexandre Bozonnet France
participated Miroslav Skadra United States
participated Lautaro Banfi United States

Official scores are unavailable.

Men's Open Bodybuilding - Lightweight Junior

Place Athlete Country
1st Sifiso Thabete First recorded win United States
2nd Naotaka Yokokawa Japan
3rd I*sa Kesici Genç United States
4th Gustavo Alberto Chutan Calderon -
5th Cosmin Antonescu United States
6th Jorge Alberto Ramierez Perez United States

Official scores are unavailable.

Men's Open Bodybuilding - Middleweight

Place Athlete Country
1st Masashi Suzuki First World Amateur Championships title Japan
2nd Kim Seong Hwan Canada
3rd Ariel Guong United States
4th Radoslav Angelov Bulgaria
5th Fabio Lopes United States
6th Hamed Davoodabadi Farahani United States
7th Karol Malecki United States
8th Rafel Beltran Arenillas -
9th Faisal Al Matani United States
10th Claudio Antônio DoMonte Brazil
participated Sam Gardner Canada
participated Alberto Galvan United States
participated Ergül Çimen United States
participated Karim Boumazza France
participated Michael Adonis United States
participated Stefano Aquaro -
participated Dimo Benev United States
participated Flanur Gerbavci United States
participated Julio Portet United States
participated Miguel Pinto Francisco United States
participated Simone Meiattini United States

Official scores are unavailable.

Men's Open Bodybuilding - Middleweight

Place Athlete Country
1st Sajad Niknampour Title defense, 3rd win here Brazil
2nd Haitham Al Zadjali United States
3rd Nasser Alsayyed United States
4th Ott Kiivikas Estonia
5th Abel Martin Perez United Kingdom
6th Salar Madadivarzeghani United States
7th Mariusz Balazinski United States
8th Serkan Cetin Germany
9th Andrii Koliada United States
10th Awonke Ngoma United States
participated Abdel Aziz El Hamwi United States
participated Cuneytbaris Uckan United States
participated Ahmed Ahmed Elbehiri United States
participated Aviv Shafrir United States
participated Ahmed Al Maskari United States
participated Jonatan Reverte Spain
participated Eric Ndjomo Ngassa Canada
participated Josep Merino United States
participated Onur Kandemir United States
participated Abbas Haidar United States
participated Pushpinder Bharti United States
participated Charles Barbe France
participated Soufiane Abid United States
participated Ahmed Mohammed Alshafei United States

Official scores are unavailable.

Men's Open Bodybuilding - Superheavyweight

Place Athlete Country
1st Jordi Martinez Zafra First recorded win Spain
2nd Attia Shaalan United States
3rd Mohsen Samadi United States
4th Andrzej Kolodziejczyk United States
5th Adam Kozyra United States
6th Yuliy Rusev United States
7th Aron Winnelinckx United States
8th Sibusiso Khuzwayo United States
9th Geizon Rosa United States
10th Antonello Olivieri -
participated Khaled Hamoudi -
participated Enrico Frisinghelli -

Official scores are unavailable.

Men's Open Bodybuilding - Welterweight

Place Athlete Country
1st Nam Kyoung Yun 3rd win here South Korea
2nd Romeo Zon United States
3rd Shoutaro Suyama Japan
4th Oscar Luis Marin Puerto Rico
5th Carles Viñals Spain
6th Ahmad Hassan Rustom United States
7th William Dearaujo United States
8th Abdulaziz Wahtan Abdulla Alqahtan Alshehhi United States
9th Ali Baroun United States
10th Farhad Asadnezhad Rokni United States
participated Maurizio Montalto United States
participated Hector Defez Beltrani Spain
participated Suman Das United States
participated Önder Çaglar United States
participated Arab Bouchaib -
participated Pratap Bhogade United States
participated Mohammad Al Masri United States
participated Carlos Torres United States
participated Gordon Singh United Kingdom
participated Joseph Silzer United States
participated Iurii Panavo United States
participated Victor Nastase United States
participated Mandla Msongelwa United States

Official scores are unavailable.

Men's Classic Physique - Class A

Place Athlete Country
1st Seyedroohollah Mirnoorollahi 2nd win here Iran
2nd Seol Ki Kwan United States
3rd Stanislav Vizenher United States
4th Daniel Cubeddu France
5th Xu Demin United States
6th Kim Yeong Seok United States
7th Jose Gambin -
8th Tetsuya Hara Japan
9th Dumisani Dlodlo -
10th Georgi Georgiev Bulgaria
participated Melik Aktaş United States
participated Dalibor Jovanović United States
participated Urs Zumstein United States

Official scores are unavailable.

Men's Classic Physique - Class B

Place Athlete Country
1st Mahdi Parvani First recorded win United States
2nd Fawaz Alhalawa United States
3rd Aristide Mbomni Tiam -
4th Zhao Zhanglei United States
5th Kim Hyo Jung United States
6th Michele Massaro -
7th Keshav Saikoolal United States
8th Gabriele Giansante United States
9th Alex Izquierdo United States
10th Ran Maorong United States
participated Mun Ki Ho United States
participated Tomoya Nakadomari United States
participated Omar Obino United States
participated Edgar Pineda Guatemala
participated Wang Hua United States
participated Alejandro Zita United States
participated Milton Galhoti -
participated Tom DeRuyter United States
participated Ercüment Aras United States

Official scores are unavailable.

Men's Classic Physique - Class C

Place Athlete Country
1st Lee Ju Hoon First recorded win United States
2nd Julian Paredes Argentina
3rd Naim Barhoumi United States
5th Andrej Varga United States
6th Takumi Onoda United States
7th Barrie Mayers Canada
8th Cheng Cancan United States
9th İskender Cihan Polat United States
10th Kesekang Moseki United States

Official scores are unavailable.

Men's Classic Physique - Class D

Place Athlete Country
1st Andrii Buzovetskyi First recorded win United States
2nd Jordi Romero Marsal -
3rd Mohammadreza Jafari Sartomi United States
4th Patryk Jaśkiewicz -
5th Antonio Ludovico United States
6th Antonio DeLaTorre -
7th Betin Başyurt United States
8th Williams Gerard United States
9th Ildar Akhmetsianov United States
10th Marius Arlauskas United States
participated Oǧuzhan Akdeniz United States
participated Reno Banks United Kingdom
participated Giuseppe Brancaccio United States
participated Aage Bunde United States
participated Joni Hietala United States
participated Lyle Singh United States
participated İlker Tetik United States
participated İlhan Topuz United States

Official scores are unavailable.

Men's Classic Physique - Class E

Place Athlete Country
1st Keyvan Rezapour First recorded win -
2nd Hesam Khosravi Larijani United States
3rd Kaveh Jazani United States
4th Hubert Kulczynski Poland
5th Adrian Cyronek Poland
6th Francisco Galvan Torres -
7th Sergey Serechshev -
8th Mateusz Kolkowski United States
9th Boris Orava United States
10th Zack McGuire United Kingdom
participated Darren Maywood Canada
participated Yusuf Siper United States
participated Christian Sløk United States
participated Viktor Mathisen United States
participated Gokhan Balci United States

Official scores are unavailable.

Men's Classic Physique - Junior

Place Athlete Country
1st Michal Zaukolec First recorded win -
2nd Jakub Prchal United States
3rd Emre Özkaram United States
4th Luis Espinoza United States
5th Olivier Kremers United States
6th Gonçalo Lapas United States
7th Rafaelin Maria Mora United States
8th Alfonso Molina United States
9th Jorge Patzan United States
10th Fabricio Frigerio United States
11th Furkan Kaplancan United States
12th Tork Cebeci United States
13th Mustafa Kocabal United States
14th Burak Temel United States
15th Gustav Gaarde United States

Official scores are unavailable.

Women's Physique - Class C

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

Place Athlete Country
4th Andrea Felici -

Official scores are unavailable.

Women's Figure - Junior

Place Athlete Country
1st Heidrun Ertsaas First recorded win Norway
2nd Jitka Vorlová Czech Republic
3rd Gabriela Cadeo Brazil
4th Johana Quintanilla Luzuriaga Ecuador
5th Miriam Talamantes Mexico
6th Viera Bozikova Slovakia
8th Simona Kastl Austria
9th Johana Leal Guatemala

Official scores are unavailable.

Masters divisions

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

Men's Classic Physique - Masters 40+

Place Athlete Country
1st Antonio DeLaTorre First World Amateur Championships title -
2nd Aristidis Nikolopoulos United States
3rd Lionel Wolbrett France
4th Pavel Brožek United States
5th Brian Emerson Australia
6th Renato Constantini United States
7th Peter Petsche Germany
8th Carlos Montilba United States

Official scores are unavailable.

Men's Classic Physique - Masters 50+

Place Athlete Country
1st Johnny Grape Title defense, 2nd win here United States
2nd Yuu Hahashi United States
3rd Hector Alfred Donis Miranda United States
4th Alejandro Valencia United States
5th Roman Läber United States
6th Abdurrahman Kiran United States
7th German Robles Molina Mexico
8th Mieczysław Nowacki United States
9th Steven Travers Australia

Official scores are unavailable.

Men's Physique - Masters 35+

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

Place Athlete Country
5th Blanche Coppola Malta

Official scores are unavailable.

Women's Physique - Masters 35+

Women's Figure - 35+

Place Athlete Country
1st Eva Berenguer Spain
2nd Nora Martinez Paraguay
3rd Tibis Araque Venezuela
4th Yalileth Paez Venezuela
5th Rachel Ramos France
6th Marta Alešiūnaitė Lithuania
7th Barbara Molyneaux Canada
8th Lucie Jakešová Czech Republic
9th Delmis Paola Flores Dominican Republic
10th Nadia Pettersen Norway
11th Ksenia Kiseleva Russia
12th Sylvia Pennas Brazil
13th Anna Bernady Poland
14th Yolanda Paredes Ramirez Mexico
15th Sandra Liliana Martinez Colombia
participated Alejandra Ayala Argentina
participated Djeini Doumbia Belgium
participated Ingrid Esparza Mexico
participated Jaqueline Marić Germany
participated Cleisly Monzon Guatemala
participated Anita Szabó-Veres Hungary
participated Elrine Terblanche South Africa

Official scores are unavailable.

Women's Figure - 45+

Place Athlete Country
1st Nina Indset First recorded win Norway
2nd Rosario Gomez Spain
3rd Anne Marie Flynn Canada
4th Monica DeLaTorre United States
5th Kiyoko Yamamoto Japan
6th Simone Rosa DeCastro Brazil
7th Dinah Salazar Venezuela
8th Julia Luz-Sanchez Mexico
9th Liliana Contreras Argentina
10th Masako Nagashima Japan
11th Cynthia Marshall South Africa

Official scores are unavailable.

Other Divisions - Masters 40+ Heavyweight Men

Other Divisions - Masters 40+ Lightheavyweight Men

Place Athlete Country
1st Mariusz Balazinski United States
2nd Mohammed Sabah Bahrain
3rd Josep Merino United States
4th Fausto Enrique Caicedo Caicedo United States
5th Ralf Szesny Germany
6th Jakub Potocki Poland
7th Krzysztof Skryplonek United States
8th Vasyl Remizov United States
9th Shahim Irani United States
10th Luis Ricardo Plata Duran -
11th Sergei Spichenkov -
12th Marcin Wesolowski United States
13th Rohan Reid Australia
14th Joseph Herman United States
15th Juan Carlos Carman Chico United States
participated Veysel Karamanoglugil United States
participated Ümit Erdoǧan United States
participated El Sayed El Sayed United States
participated Raul Avendaño United States
participated Marco Antonio Reeves United States

Official scores are unavailable.

Other Divisions - Masters 40+ Lightweight Men

Other Divisions - Masters 40+ Middleweight Men

Place Athlete Country
1st Esequiel Alves Conceição First recorded win Brazil
2nd Oscar Luis Marin Puerto Rico
3rd Patrick Hunt United States
4th Marcelo Portillo United States
5th Harrinson Bermudez United States
6th Chris Pillay United States
7th Karim Boumazza France
8th Alexandre Pamplona United States
9th Gokhan Akcelik United States
10th Noe Reyes United States
11th Ryan Waywood Canada
12th Edson Castilho Brazil
13th Jesus Montilba United States

Official scores are unavailable.

Other Divisions - Masters 50+ Heavyweight Men

Other Divisions - Masters 50+ Lightweight Men

Other Divisions - Masters 60+ Men

Other Divisions - Masters 65+ Men

Place Athlete Country
1st Rafael Vera First World Amateur Championships title United States
2nd Paweł Przedlaski Poland
3rd Karl Hanning United States
4th Willi Neubauer Germany
5th Abdülbaki Köseahmetoǧlu United States
6th Toshisuke Kanazawa (2) Japan
7th Tiburcio Arias Chavez Mexico

Official scores are unavailable.

Complete Results updated July 30, 2026 Source: MuscleMemory

This edition in context

Competitors
429
Divisions
33
Size rank
12 of 41

The biggest field since 2015.

Past winners of this event

Winner of the headline division for each edition of this event on record.
Year Winner Division
2017 Jenica Stan Junior Physique
2016 Heidrun Ertsaas Figure Junior
2013 Olga Beliakova Bodybuilding

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