Nationals results

[Bently]

from Flexonline.com:

Men’s bodybuilding: Bantamweight Class
1 Marvin Ward
2 Lazarus Angulo
3 Roland Huff
4 Kenneth B. Rios
5 Silvio Schillen

Men’s bodybuilding: Lightweight Class
1 Marc Jacobs
2 Henderson Gordon
3 Roland Aki
4 Al Ferraro
5 Mike Martini

Men’s bodybuilding: Middleweight Class
1 Jimmy Canyon
2 Stan McQuay
3 Pablo Mills
4 Jose Raymond
5 Paul Smith

Men’s bodybuilding: Light-Heavyweight Class
1 Kris Dim
2 Roc Shabazz
3 Curtis Bryant
4 Fakhri Mubarek
5 Monty Mabry

Men’s bodybuilding: Heavyweight Class
1 Frank Roberson
2 Jeff Schwartzer
3 William J. Owens
4 Darrell Terrell
5 Lionel Brown

Men’s bodybuilding: Superheavyweight Class
1 Mat Duval ***
2 William Wilmore
3 Erik Fromm
4 Gus Carter
5 Stokely Palmer

*** Mens bodybuilding overall winner

 

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Duval

Matt Duval has been at this for a long time and is certainly impressive, but I sure don't think that I would have selected him as the overall winner. Other class winners seemed to have better symetry and conditioning.

Sometimes I think that the overall, and even the class winner selection in these National level contests come with a large portion of politics. It seems like they give credit for longevity in the sport and relationships among the movers and the shakers. As an idealist I'd like to see the contests judged purely on the physique that is presented that day. The best person based on muscularity, symetry and conditioning should be the winner.