World Games 1997
World Games 1997 was held in International. The Men's Open Bodybuilding - Bantamweight title went to Anwar El Amawy.
- Year
- 1997
- Date
- Jan 1, 1997
- Location
- International
- Divisions
- 6
- Competitors
- 27
Results by Division
World Games 1997
World Games 1997 was held in International. The Men's Open Bodybuilding - Bantamweight title went to Anwar El Amawy.
Defending HeavyWeight champion Glenn Gravenbeek, who won in 1993, did not return.
Top 3 Men's Open Bodybuilding - Bantamweight
World Games 1997 contested 6 divisions across 27 athletes, competitors from 10 countries. Anwar El Amawy took Men's Open Bodybuilding - Bantamweight. 6 divisions crowned a champion; each is judged independently. No round scores were published for this event, so placings are shown without them.
Men's Open Bodybuilding - Bantamweight
| Place | Athlete | Country |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | Anwar El Amawy First World Games title | Egypt |
| 2nd | Mohammed Abdelaziz | United States |
| 3rd | Jose Carlos Santos | Brazil |
| 4th | Sazali Abdul Samad | Malaysia |
| 5th | Aldo Fumagalli | United States |
| 6th | Yevgeni Gorelikas | United States |
Official scores are unavailable.
Men's Open Bodybuilding - Heavyweight
| Place | Athlete | Country |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | Walter Letner First recorded win | United States |
| 2nd | Peter Keranen | United States |
| 3rd | Istvan Kis Horvath | Hungary |
| 4th | Oleg Zhur | United States |
| 5th | Thomas Koller | Germany |
| 6th | Maluafita Fatu | - |
Official scores are unavailable.
Men's Open Bodybuilding - Lightheavyweight
| Place | Athlete | Country |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | Milton Holloway | United States |
| 2nd | Ingo Fischer | Germany |
| 3rd | János Lantos | United States |
| 4th | Marko Heikkinen | - |
Official scores are unavailable.
Men's Open Bodybuilding - Lightweight
| Place | Athlete | Country |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | Toshihiko Hirota First recorded win | Japan |
| 2nd | Chris Faildo | United States |
Official scores are unavailable.
Men's Open Bodybuilding - Middleweight
| Place | Athlete | Country |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | Kester Paschke | Germany |
| 2nd | Johnny Stewart | United States |
| 3rd | Yrjo Jokela | - |
| 4th | Lee Jin Ho | South Korea |
| 5th | Ivan Bucher | United States |
Official scores are unavailable.
Men's Open Bodybuilding - Welterweight
| Place | Athlete | Country |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | Kim Jun Ho First World Games title | Canada |
| 2nd | Juha Hakala | Finland |
| 3rd | Ahmed El Sayed | United States |
| 4th | Joseph Duenas | United States |
Official scores are unavailable.
Complete Results updated March 12, 2026 Source: MuscleMemory
This edition in context
- Competitors
- 27
- Divisions
- 6
- Size rank
- 8 of 8
The biggest field since 1993.
The placings as recorded, and nothing past them
This page lists the divisions and finishing order held for this contest, with the source named on it wherever one was recorded. It reports what was published. It does not re-judge the show, and it does not reconcile disagreements between sources.
- Score and bodyweight columns appear only for divisions where those figures exist in the data. A division without them was recorded as placings only, not as a show that gave no scores.
- Where the record has two athletes sharing a place, both are listed. A tie is never broken to produce a single winner.
- Venue, federation, date and competitor count show only when the source supplied them. A field left out means nothing was sourced for it, never a zero.
- A contest with no results has either not taken place yet or has no placements published. Check the status line above the results to tell which.