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World Amateur Championships 2017

World Amateur Championships 2017 was held in USA. The Men's Open Bodybuilding title went to Szymon Lada.

Year
2017
Date
Nov 15, 2017
Location
USA
Federation
IFBB
Divisions
40
Competitors
484

Results by Division

Division Winner Runner-up
Men's Open Bodybuilding Szymon Lada Carlos Blanco Sanjurjo
Men's Open Bodybuilding - Bantamweight Park Kyung Mo Kang Sungwon
Men's Open Bodybuilding - Heavyweight Hossein Kalateh Volodymyr Byruk
Men's Open Bodybuilding - Heavyweight Junior Gareth Sheepers Patrik Valach
Men's Open Bodybuilding - Lightheavyweight Ahmed Al Harthi Mahdi Ghanavati
Men's Open Bodybuilding - Lightweight Mahdi Heydari Yoon Jae Koon
Men's Open Bodybuilding - Lightweight Junior Vilius Sosnovskis Jose Antonio Martinez
Men's Open Bodybuilding - Middleweight Kim Seong Hwan Davood Shokrollahniaragh
Men's Open Bodybuilding - Middleweight Haitham Al Zadjali Hamed Mahmoud Eini
Men's Open Bodybuilding - Superheavyweight Mohsen Samadi Blessing Awodibu
Men's Open Bodybuilding - Welterweight Nam Kyoung Yun Abdulla Said Al Jabri
Men's Classic Physique - Class A Aristide Mbomni Tiam Seol Ki Kwan
Men's Classic Physique - Class B Jesus Rodal Burak Ekit
Men's Classic Physique - Class C Ryu Jeh Yung Jiri Kocvara
Men's Classic Physique - Class D Mohammadreza Jafari Sartomi Lee Ju Hoon
Men's Classic Physique - Class E Hesam Khosravi Larijani Sam Mikaelsson
Men's Classic Physique - Junior Jakub Prchal Tomas Kairys
Men's Physique - Junior Jenica Stan Ionela Ion
Women's Physique - Junior
Women's Figure - Junior Tereza Linhartova Johanna Svan
Men's Classic Physique - Masters 40+ Marcin Lopucki Adriano Piccinni
Men's Classic Physique - Masters 45+ Jiří Schäfer Thomas Schnelldorfer
Men's Classic Physique - Masters 50+ Sedat Bekdemir Johnny Grape
Men's Physique - Masters 35+
Women's Bodybuilding - Masters 40+ Lightheavyweight
Women's Physique - Masters 35+ Alicia Zayas Natalia B Bystrova
Women's Figure - 35+ Katarzyna Dudek Ksenia Kiseleva
Women's Figure - 45+ Iveta Vanekova Olga Volokh
Other Divisions - Masters 40+ Heavyweight Radoslav Slodkiewicz Aleksei Bocharov
Other Divisions - Masters 40+ Lightheavyweight Rafał Tasiemski Andrii Koliada
Other Divisions - Masters 40+ Lightweight Laurent Ferrari Andrzej Hurysz
Other Divisions - Masters 40+ Middleweight Michel Perez Alessandro Zuccaro
Other Divisions - Masters 45+ Heavyweight Horst Wetterau Uwe Hemmer
Other Divisions - Masters 45+ Lightheavyweight Mohamed Hassan Giovanni Cubeddu
Other Divisions - Masters 45+ Lightweight Michael Metzger Ahmad Hussain Alblooshi
Other Divisions - Masters 45+ Middleweight Ezequiel Alves Karim Boumazza
Other Divisions - Masters 50+ Heavyweight Abdulwahed Mohamed Stefan Hammerschmidt
Other Divisions - Masters 50+ Lightweight Ismail Lacin Kurt Strohmayer
Other Divisions - Masters 55+ Heavyweight Alfie Noda Juhani Herranen
Other Divisions - Masters 55+ Lightweight Werner Zenk Michel Vossier
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World Amateur Championships 2017

Szymon Lada Champion

2017 USA Nov 14, 2017

World Amateur Championships 2017 was held in USA. The Men's Open Bodybuilding title went to Szymon Lada.

Medium confidence Historical/community source Updated August 8, 2026 Accurate?

Defending Figure Junior champion Heidrun Ertsaas, who won in 2016, did not return.

Top 3 Men's Open Bodybuilding

1st
Szymon Lada
Szymon Lada
United States
3rd
Mazaher Tabani Abarghani
United States

World Amateur Championships 2017 contested 40 divisions across 484 athletes, 20 open and 20 age-restricted Masters, competitors from 36 countries. Szymon Lada took Men's Open Bodybuilding. 37 divisions crowned a champion; each is judged independently. No round scores were published for this event, so placings are shown without them.

Best represented United States (300) - France (25) - Japan (10)

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

Masters divisions 20

Men's Open Bodybuilding

Place Athlete Country
1st Szymon Lada 2nd win here United States
2nd Carlos Blanco Sanjurjo -
3rd Mazaher Tabani Abarghani United States
4th Pablo Llopis Spain
5th Karim Mohamed Ali United States
6th Lorenzo Leeuwe -
7th Roman Dudushkin United States
8th Gabriel Leber United States
9th Mohamed Fakhri United States
10th Adem Unal United States
11th Abdel Dahmani United States
12th Abdallah Al Rahbi United States

Official scores are unavailable.

Men's Open Bodybuilding - Bantamweight

Place Athlete Country
1st Park Kyung Mo Title defense, 5th win here South Korea
2nd Kang Sungwon Australia
3rd Wael Ali Omar -
4th Ali Mohamed Abdulrasool United States
5th Ma Jun United States
6th Zanovuyo Alfred Vanda United States
7th Seiichiro Kimura United States
8th Kikuo Asano Japan
9th Alexander Stepanov United States
10th Leonardo Alizaga Varela United States
11th Paolo Lobo -
12th Tomasz Sadkowski United States
13th Shen Jin United States
14th Jakub Prokop United States

Official scores are unavailable.

Men's Open Bodybuilding - Heavyweight

Place Athlete Country
1st Hossein Kalateh Title defense, 2nd win here -
2nd Volodymyr Byruk -
3rd Peter Tatarka United States
4th Morad Zahir United States
5th John Afoa Australia
6th Gerhardus Nel United States
7th Usman Bathily United States
8th Roberto Rodriguez United States
9th Vasyl Remizov United States

Official scores are unavailable.

Men's Open Bodybuilding - Heavyweight Junior

Place Athlete Country
1st Gareth Sheepers First recorded win United States
2nd Patrik Valach United States
3rd Geoffrey Dos Santos United States
4th Quinton Eriya Canada
5th Pavel Gets United States
6th Simone Bassanelli -
7th Dan Dumitru United States
8th David Cap United States
9th Bahattin Yazici United States
10th Alkan Meriç United States
11th Uǧur Alan United States

Official scores are unavailable.

Men's Open Bodybuilding - Lightheavyweight

Place Athlete Country
1st Ahmed Al Harthi First recorded win Oman
2nd Mahdi Ghanavati United States
3rd Vincente Olombrada United States
4th Ralph Decelis -
5th Nikolay Kostadinov United States
6th Joan Cannegieter -
7th Mohamed Djamed -
8th Andrei Kulik Spain
9th Stephane Aquaro France
10th David Camara Spain
11th Charles Barbe France
12th Orkun Bingöl United States
13th Tristan Van Aarde United States
14th Ergül Çimen United States
15th Justin Fox United States
16th Anas Hjyej United States
17th Kujtim Lepaja United States

Official scores are unavailable.

Men's Open Bodybuilding - Lightweight

Place Athlete Country
1st Mahdi Heydari Title defense, 2nd win here United States
2nd Yoon Jae Koon United States
3rd Mveliso Tapi United States
4th Joel Carlos United States
5th Kang Wooseok United States
6th Alderino Santos United States
7th Takanori Sato United States
8th Daniel Elvis Pinanjota Villarruel Ecuador
9th Peter Hartwig United States
10th Dorj Gansukh United States
11th Makoto Tashiro Japan
12th Leroy Rollins Canada
13th Zhou Tianning United States
14th Mohamed Biouflifane United States

Official scores are unavailable.

Men's Open Bodybuilding - Lightweight Junior

Place Athlete Country
1st Vilius Sosnovskis First recorded win -
2nd Jose Antonio Martinez United States
3rd Vladimir Pecena United States
4th Dimitar Lekov United States
5th Hayato Aizawa United States
6th Joval Gordon United Kingdom
7th Sedat Kaya Turkey
8th Hunor Salak United States
9th Cristian Martin United States

Official scores are unavailable.

Men's Open Bodybuilding - Middleweight

Place Athlete Country
1st Kim Seong Hwan 2nd win here Canada
2nd Davood Shokrollahniaragh United States
3rd Park In Jung South Korea
4th Masashi Suzuki Japan
5th Omar Ghafari United States
6th Vasif Fitoz United States
7th Sayed Nasralla Naser United States
8th Simon Mwelase United States
9th Jiang Zaimei United States
10th Hariht Al Hiltschi United States
11th Ange-Marie Pellegrini France
12th Peter Geerolf United States
13th Boǧaç Şihoǧlu United States
14th Mina Gamal Zekrie Bisada -

Official scores are unavailable.

Men's Open Bodybuilding - Middleweight

Place Athlete Country
1st Haitham Al Zadjali First recorded win United States
2nd Hamed Mahmoud Eini -
3rd Abdelkader Benabdellah -
4th Alberto Alonso -
5th Zohir Mihoubi -
6th Ott Kiivikas Estonia
7th Glenn Molobela -
8th Aviv Shafrir United States
9th Taniela Mosimosi Koula Lutui United States

Official scores are unavailable.

Men's Open Bodybuilding - Superheavyweight

Place Athlete Country
1st Mohsen Samadi First recorded win United States
2nd Blessing Awodibu United States
3rd Andrzej Kolodziejczyk United States
4th Theo Leguerrier France
5th Maksim Trzin United States
6th Adam Kozyra United States
7th Krasimir Sarafov -
8th Quinton Eriya Canada
9th Mustafa Örel United States
10th Izzeddin Seyoury United States

Official scores are unavailable.

Men's Open Bodybuilding - Welterweight

Place Athlete Country
1st Nam Kyoung Yun Title defense, 4th win here South Korea
2nd Abdulla Said Al Jabri United States
3rd Michel Perez United States
4th Omid Soleimanighahroudi -
5th Boo Junhyuk United States
6th Edgaras Gladas United States
7th Sid Ali Midoun United States
8th Fahad Khasib Al Hosni United States
9th Bang Haejin United States
10th Shoutaro Suyama Japan
11th Hadi Mohammadi United States
12th Miguel Francisco -
13th Sergey Golichkov -
14th Khaled Zagha United States
15th Maximiliano Rodriguez Spain
16th Wilfredo Mena United States
participated Asher Palach United States
participated Lee Hersey United Kingdom
participated Özcan Göksu United States
participated Mohammad Al Masri United States
participated Mohamed Fathy Abdelgawad United States

Official scores are unavailable.

Men's Classic Physique - Class A

Place Athlete Country
1st Aristide Mbomni Tiam First World Amateur Championships title -
2nd Seol Ki Kwan United States
3rd Francisco Moyano United States
4th Kohei Watanabe United States
5th Xu Demin United States
6th Kim Yeong Seok United States
7th Fikret Becan United States
8th Jose Lopez Vazquez Spain

Official scores are unavailable.

Men's Classic Physique - Class B

Place Athlete Country
1st Jesus Rodal 2nd win here United States
2nd Burak Ekit United States
3rd Alejandro Zita United States
4th Wei Zhao United States
5th Feng He United States
6th Zhao Zhanglei United States
7th Timo Ekman United States
8th Reda Al Jaafreh United States
9th Ayhan Turan United States
10th Azer Mhamdi -

Official scores are unavailable.

Men's Classic Physique - Class C

Place Athlete Country
1st Ryu Jeh Yung 2nd win here United States
2nd Jiri Kocvara United States
3rd Abuagila Salem Aburas Greece
4th Lukáš Topinka Czech Republic
5th Wu Yong Hao United States
6th Hugo Eiti Yanagihara United States
7th Angelo Estuardo Ronquillo Carpio United States
8th Hamidreza Kamrani Mashhadi United States
9th Erik Halaska United States
10th Aouad Yahaqui United States
11th Oh Hunsuk United States
12th Christian Fekete United States
13th Ameer Alarab United States

Official scores are unavailable.

Men's Classic Physique - Class D

Place Athlete Country
1st Mohammadreza Jafari Sartomi First recorded win United States
2nd Lee Ju Hoon United States
3rd Patryk Jaśkiewicz -
4th Jakub Vilimek United States
5th Sajad Heidari Chegeni United States
6th Reno Banks United Kingdom
7th Antonio Ludovico United States
8th Agustin Frias -
9th Fan Yunlong United States
10th Andrey Shmidt United States
11th Ding Yu Tao United States
12th Kim Hansu United States
13th Williams Gerard United States
14th Jan Páleníček United States
15th Sedat Bekdemir United States
participated Mazen Shahin Hindi United States
participated Ramil Lipp United States

Official scores are unavailable.

Men's Classic Physique - Class E

Place Athlete Country
1st Hesam Khosravi Larijani First recorded win United States
2nd Sam Mikaelsson -
3rd Jasim Hasan Marhoon United States
4th Eric Lompard France
5th Jose Perez Ramirez United States
6th Mateusz Kolkowski United States
7th Pavel Konoshevich United States
8th Ugur Cevher United States
9th Piotr Jurczewski United States
10th Radim Kolar United States
11th Marko Pitkanen United States
12th Utku Günindi United States
13th Dawsen Hamilton United States
14th Park Jong Min United States
15th Zhang Junyi United States

Official scores are unavailable.

Men's Classic Physique - Junior

Place Athlete Country
1st Jakub Prchal First recorded win United States
2nd Tomas Kairys United States
3rd Can Kaya United States
4th Vitalii Plys United States
5th Martin Sagan United States
6th Sven Agić United States
7th Emre Özkaram United States
8th Yasin Yalçin United States
9th Gheorghe Bozomala United States
10th Juho Auvinen United States
11th Mikk Jürisson United States

Official scores are unavailable.

Men's Physique - Junior

Place Athlete Country
1st Jenica Stan First recorded win Romania
2nd Ionela Ion Romania

Official scores are unavailable.

Women's Physique - Junior

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

Place Athlete Country
3rd Maria Onea Romania

Official scores are unavailable.

Women's Figure - Junior

Place Athlete Country
1st Tereza Linhartova First recorded win Czech Republic
2nd Johanna Svan Sweden
3rd Jennifer Ullmer Germany
4th Silvia Fialkova Slovakia
5th Pepita Ravantti Finland
6th Viera Bozikova Slovakia
7th Tatiana Tsyganova Russia
8th Indré Baleviciute Lithuania
9th Adriana Sojkova Slovakia
10th Eleja Lukyte Lithuania
11th Savannah Prenzler South Africa
12th Ewelina Dolhanczuk Poland
13th Ivona Nemčić Croatia
14th Vilde Leithe Norway
15th Ekaterina Varbanova Bulgaria
16th Anastasiia Leonova Russia
participated Andrea Joszayova Slovakia
participated Rabia Delibalta Turkey
participated Defne Balik Turkey
participated Alice Mikk Estonia

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 Marcin Lopucki First recorded win United States
2nd Adriano Piccinni United States
3rd Rolandas Žeimys United States
4th Williams Gerard United States
5th Tomoya Nakadomari United States
6th Marian Jankovčin United States
7th Lionel Wolbrett France
8th Jean Francois Garrigues France
9th Ludovic Ghyselinck France
10th Vladimir Platzek United States
11th Mariusz Ciupak United States
12th Andrei Nilgesz United States
13th David Lopez United States
14th Ümit Erdoǧan United States
15th Renato Constantini United States
16th Maciej Frelikowski United States
participated Erkan Kivrak United States
participated Taher Mohamed United States

Official scores are unavailable.

Men's Classic Physique - Masters 45+

Place Athlete Country
1st Jiří Schäfer First recorded win United States
2nd Thomas Schnelldorfer Germany
3rd Andreas Ehrschwendtner United States
4th Akira Matsuoka United States
5th Alexandre Miranda United States
6th Joseph Doutau United States
7th Sorin Fritea United States
8th Aristidis Nikolopoulos United States
9th Claudiu Giurgi United States
10th Dawsen Hamilton United States
11th Hakan Gökburun United States
12th Serge Rouze France
13th Sayed Hamza Hasan United States
14th Stefano Cigni United States

Official scores are unavailable.

Men's Classic Physique - Masters 50+

Place Athlete Country
1st Sedat Bekdemir First recorded win United States
2nd Johnny Grape United States
3rd Voitto Suosaari United States
4th Naiem Ally United States
5th Yuuu Hayashi Japan
6th Olaf Maneval United States
7th Patrik Kursten United States
8th Michal Sidik United States
9th Kamil Narman United States
10th Peter Hunt United States
11th Roman Laeber United States
12th Jochen Kretz United States
13th Philippe Martigne United States
14th Mieczysław Nowacki United States

Official scores are unavailable.

Men's Physique - Masters 35+

Place Athlete Country
3rd Blanche Coppola Malta
10th Cristina Edith Sevilla Trujillo Ecuador

Official scores are unavailable.

Women's Bodybuilding - Masters 40+ Lightheavyweight

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

Place Athlete Country
4th Jose Carlos Nunes United States

Official scores are unavailable.

Women's Physique - Masters 35+

Place Athlete Country
1st Alicia Zayas United States
2nd Natalia B Bystrova United States
4th Eszter Kormos-Csonka Hungary
5th Muriel Boumazza France
6th Oana Amalia Marinescu Romania
7th Satoko Yamanouchi Japan
8th Iuliana Giurgiu Romania
9th Gabriele Zimmermann Germany
11th Milena Koudelková Czech Republic
12th Victoria Myslik Canada
13th Lucie Jakešová Czech Republic
14th Miryana Gurbalova Bulgaria
15th Bikayise Mbambo South Africa

Official scores are unavailable.

Women's Figure - 35+

Place Athlete Country
1st Katarzyna Dudek First recorded win Poland
2nd Ksenia Kiseleva Russia
3rd Diana Petry Germany
4th Svetlana Sapunova Russia
5th Marina Chamoun Sweden
6th Katarzyna Kozakiewicz Poland
7th Angela Anton Luxembourg
8th Nataliia Filippova Russia
9th Melanie Niebergall Germany
10th Jana Knotkova Slovakia
11th Daiva Varneliené United States
12th Marta Alešiūnaitė Lithuania
13th Hanna Saario Finland
14th Özlem Temel Turkey
15th Daniela Ehrschwendtner-Liebers Austria
participated Arti Lopes Norway
participated Nadia Balmu Romania
participated Caryn Azzie South Africa
participated Magali Guillotin France
participated Malgorzata Jodelka Poland
participated Adalgisa Mendes Italy
participated Joanna Ucińska Poland
participated Tanya Staleva United Kingdom
participated Linda Rikoll Norway
participated Rachel Ramos France
participated Nicola Murphy South Africa

Official scores are unavailable.

Women's Figure - 45+

Place Athlete Country
1st Iveta Vanekova First recorded win Slovakia
2nd Olga Volokh Russia
3rd Irina Blinova Russia
4th Branislava Jovanović Serbia
5th Kiyoko Yamamoto Japan
6th Asmaa Salimi Canada
7th Bienvenida Bevia Spain
8th Esta Pilt Estonia
9th Maria Hudec Czech Republic
10th Masako Nagashima Japan
11th Judit David Romania
12th Valerie Texier France
13th Danica Anastasijevic-Christensen North Macedonia
14th Mona Hoff Norway
15th Brigitte Robini Monaco

Official scores are unavailable.

Other Divisions - Masters 40+ Heavyweight Men

Place Athlete Country
1st Radoslav Slodkiewicz United States
2nd Aleksei Bocharov United States
3rd Ahmad Madani United States
4th Pavel Vacek United States
5th Roland Bosman United States
6th Wissam Ibrahim United States
7th Arnaud Plaisant France
8th Nikolay Stoyanov -
9th Agoston Moldovan United States
10th Tomasz Lech United States
11th Jan Jankovčin -
12th Muammer Gökmen United States
13th Nikola Primorac United States

Official scores are unavailable.

Other Divisions - Masters 40+ Lightheavyweight Men

Place Athlete Country
1st Rafał Tasiemski -
2nd Andrii Koliada United States
3rd Ott Kiivikas Estonia
5th Roman Skalsky United States
6th Slawomir Szafranski United States
7th João Silva -
8th Mohamad Amin Alhares United States
9th Stefan Cristian United States
10th Arafat Yousif Yaqoob Bahrain
11th Ricardo Nieves United States
12th Mehmet Batdal United States
13th Stephane Pelloquin France

Official scores are unavailable.

Other Divisions - Masters 40+ Lightweight Men

Place Athlete Country
1st Laurent Ferrari First recorded win United States
2nd Andrzej Hurysz United States
3rd Miroslav Skadra United States
4th Sebastian Vasut United States
5th Ismail Dikmen United States
6th Turan Ulusoy United States

Official scores are unavailable.

Other Divisions - Masters 40+ Middleweight Men

Other Divisions - Masters 45+ Heavyweight Men

Place Athlete Country
1st Horst Wetterau 2nd win here Germany
2nd Uwe Hemmer Germany
3rd Ilario Rongioletti United States
4th Johny Yrius United States
5th Grzegorz Kot United States
6th Giovanni Dell'Orto -
7th Enrico Frisinghelli -
8th Hasan Telatar United States
9th Jorge Luciano United States
10th Jorgen Corneliussen United States
11th Viacheslau Kuprash United States
12th Francisc Andrasoni United States
13th Jörg Kapfer United States

Official scores are unavailable.

Other Divisions - Masters 45+ Lightheavyweight Men

Place Athlete Country
1st Mohamed Hassan First recorded win United States
2nd Giovanni Cubeddu France
3rd Jakub Potocki Poland
4th Jose Luis Ortiz United States
5th Vasyl Remizov United States
6th Alin Mateescu United States
7th Mariusz Balazinski United States
8th Massimiliano Saccone -
9th Pavel Forman United States
10th Wieslaw Cisowski United States
11th Çetin Aksoy United States
12th Jerry Ossi Sweden
13th Ebrahim Sarhan United States

Official scores are unavailable.

Other Divisions - Masters 45+ Lightweight Men

Place Athlete Country
1st Michael Metzger First recorded win United States
2nd Ahmad Hussain Alblooshi Spain
3rd Arab Bouchaib -
4th Alain Pages France
5th Halil Ibrahim Sargin United States
6th Mahmut Keklik United States
7th Christian Vogt United States
8th Hicri Sevim United States

Official scores are unavailable.

Other Divisions - Masters 45+ Middleweight Men

Place Athlete Country
1st Ezequiel Alves First recorded win United States
2nd Karim Boumazza France
3rd Maurizio Montalto United States
4th Bogdan Nowakowski United States
5th Serghei Gospodar United States
6th Juan Francisco Martin -
7th Pavel Lyubenov United States
8th Laurent Gonzales France
9th Andrei Pop United States
10th Filippo Masucci United States
11th Ali Salman United States

Official scores are unavailable.

Other Divisions - Masters 50+ Heavyweight Men

Other Divisions - Masters 50+ Lightweight Men

Other Divisions - Masters 55+ Heavyweight Men

Other Divisions - Masters 55+ Lightweight Men

Complete Results updated July 30, 2026 Source: MuscleMemory

This edition in context

Competitors
484
Divisions
40
Size rank
10 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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