On the weekend of March 3, the Larger Columbus Conference Heart in Columbus, OH hosted the thirty fifth version of the Arnold Traditional. The followers noticed seven champions topped all through the weekend, together with Samson Dauda taking the highest title, the boys’s open Arnold Traditional championship.
Dauda needed to face 9 of the IFBB Professional League’s finest bodybuilders on this planet, together with two-time Mr. Olympia Mamdouh “Massive Ramy” Elssbiay, Nick Walker, and Andrew Jacked. Present Olympia 212 Champion Shaun Clarida was additionally on this 10-man lineup, and he positioned fifth on this present regardless of being outweighed by 50 to 100 kilos in some instances. On the finish of the finals, it got here all the way down to Dauda and 2021 Arnold Traditional winner Nick Walker for the title, and Dauda can be the person together with his hand raised by Arnold Schwarzenegger on the finish of the night. He received a $300,000 first place examine to go along with that trophy.
1. Samson Dauda
2. Nick Walker
3. Andrew Jacked
4. Mamdouh Elssbiay
5. Shaun Clarida
Different Males Divisions
Three different males’s divisions hosted contests in Columbus. Erin Banks managed to efficiently defend his Arnold Males’s Physique title in opposition to rivals Diogo Montenegro and Emanual Hunter. The favored Ramon Rocha Queiroz (a.ok.a. “Dino”) held off a cost by Urs Kalecinski to win the Arnold Traditional Physique title, and the dominant Harold “King Kong” Kelley took his sixth Arnold Wheelchair win. Kelley has received six of the seven Arnold championships that this division has had.
Arnold Males’s Physique
1. Erin Banks
2. Diogo Montenegro
3. Emanual Hunter
4. Vitor Chaves
5. Carlos DeOliveria
Arnold Traditional Physique
1. Ramon Rocha Querioz
2. Urs Kalecinski
3. Alex Cambronero
4. Mike Sommerfeld
5. Braveness Opara
Arnold Professional Wheelchair
1. Harold Kelley
2. Tory Jones
3. Bradley Betts
4. Woody Belfort
5. James Berger
Girls’s Divisions
The women confirmed up and placed on nice performances as nicely. Two of the three champions going into the competition managed to defend their titles. On Friday night time, Ariel Khadr claimed her second Health Worldwide championship, placing her in prime place to compete for the Olympia this fall. Lauralie Chapados additionally defended the Bikini Worldwide title, and she or he really defeated the present Olympia winner, Maureen Blanquisco, in addition to former Arnold and Olympia champions Jennifer Dorie and Ashley Kaltwasser to take action.
The second Wellness Worldwide competitors was additionally held, and a brand new champion was assured in that contest as a result of defending champion Isabelle Nunes needed to withdraw resulting from damage. Angela Borges was thought-about the favourite, however Kassandra Gillis of Canada was in the perfect form of her profession. That was rewarded as a result of she was handed the trophy because the champion. Borges completed because the runner-up for the second straight 12 months.
Wellness Worldwide
1. Kassandra Gillis
2. Angela Borges
3. Rayane Fogal
4. Alexis Adams
5. Marissa Andrews
Bikini Worldwide
1. Lauralie Chapados
2. Maureen Blanquisco
3. Jennifer Dorie
4. Ashley Kaltwasser
5. Romina Basualdo
Health Worldwide
1. Ariel Khadr
2. Jaclyn Baker
3. Michelle Freda-Mensah
4. Allison Kramer
5. Tamara Vahn
Different Notes
4-time Arnold Traditional Champion Flex Wheeler was acknowledged because the 2023 Arnold Lifetime Achievement Award winner. He and Schwarzenegger shared a second onstage earlier than Wheeler addressed the group.
In honor of the thirty fifth anniversary of the Arnold Traditional, lots of the previous champions had been in attendance and graced the stage to be appreciated by the group. Schwarzenegger thanked them for the recollections they created and for supporting the present and sport of bodybuilding.
A video tribute aired to recollect Schwarzenegger’s longtime enterprise companion and Arnold Traditional co-founder, Jim Lorimer, who handed away in 2022. The viewers gave a standing ovation to point out their appreciation for the longtime promoter.
