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The 2009 WFF Universe Championships were held in Petersberg, Germany on June 27th. Australia sent a contingent of competitors who all made very strong showings. The Aussie team included Michelle Nazaroff, David Nazaroff, Blair Loveday, Robert Borgonha, Alex Karas, Alastair White and Kris Porthill who won his class as well as the superbody overall. Full [...]

GMV Productions has DVDs available of the 2009 NABBA/WFF Max’s International Championships, which were held on Saturday May 16 in Victoria.
Promoted by Graeme Lancefield, Mike Holton won the mens overall and Anna Hetzel won the womens overall in NABBA, with Liz Dando winning the WFF Figure Overall and Kris Porthill winning the mens WFF [...]

What would an Australian bodybuilding radio show be without interviewing one of the all time best Aussie bodybuilders ever? Lee Priest would easily be considered the most well known Australian bodybuilder today and has a professional career spanning over 15 years. Considered by many bodybuilding fans to have some of the best arm development amongst [...]

The 2009 NABBA World Championships were held in Kosice, Slovakia on June 12 - 14. Australia sent two entrants; 2009 NABBA International and 2009 Southern Hemisphere Figure Overall Champion Anna Hetzel and 2009 NABBA Southern Hemisphere Grandmaster Champion Tony Rizzo.
- Tony Rizzo came 5th out of 5 in the Masters Over 50
- Anna Hetzel came [...]

We posted recently about the Australian bodybuilders who failed drug tests in late 2008 during INBA shows. One bodybuilder failed for the substance Oxilofrine which the ASADA release listed as a stimulant. Claims were made that this substance was found in an over the counter fatburner produced by ALR Industries, a claim which we have [...]

In a strongly decisive move, the website of Australian INBA [International Natural Bodybuilders Association] has just formally announced that four Australian bodybuilders who failed drug tests have been banned for life from competing in the INBA. Three of the bodybuilders tested positive for anabolics, and one refused to submit to testing. This prior penalties [2 [...]

Below are further details and the official media release from the official ASADA website of reports that five Australian bodybuilders have received sanctions from the INBA for failing drug tests for various steroids, stimulants, diuretics and cannabis. They are reported as Jud Hart, Gerard Broeren, Cherie Wyer, Shane Cordona and Nathan Wallace. According to ASADA, [...]

With top level bodybuilders it’s easy to just envision them as they appear in present day, without any concept of how they looked “before”. Below is a retro video clip of Lee Priest in his teenage years; flexing and training. One of Australia’s best ever bodybuilders, Lee was one of the youngest bodybuilders worldwide to [...]

The post below is an amusing little ancedote from Aussielicious.com.au [NSFW] describing how two Mormon missionaries reacted when they encountered a photo shoot with a muscular bodybuilder in NSW.

“Sounds like a scene from a porno but sadly it didn’t descend quite to that level. We were in a back alley in Darlinghurst, shooting James [...]

We’re a bit late with this, but better late then never! Below are a few videos from the 2009 NPFC/IFBB Perth Elite which was held in March 2009. The videos include the Overall Figure Posedown, Guest poser Toney Freeman, Figure Short winner Sara Picken Brown, Daniela O’Mara, Neil Gardner’s routine and more. For full results, [...]

We had the pleasure of e-chatting with Sammy Ioannidis; who as a former IFBB pro and NABBA Universe Champion ranks amongst one of the best all time Australian bodybuilders. Sammy was kind enough to answer some questions about his opinions on NABBA vs IFBB, his training split and more.
You competed as an IFBB pro in [...]