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itself, which was held at the North Harbour Stadium function
center, was run with military like precision.
The prejudging began at close to the 10am advertised time and was
finished by 12.15! this must go down in the
record books as the fastest prejudging ever for the
Nationals. While it was great the show ran so
fast, it would've been nice to see some of the classes on stage a
little longer as it seemed the athletes only had a few minutes on
stage and didn't get a change to get in to their poses
properly. Other than that
President Moe Moussawi and
his team of committee members, marshalls and tanners did a
great job to set up the venue with special staging and lighting,
and a video camera that streamed live footage of the athletes
prejudging on to a big screen behind them and to a tv
backstage. There was plenty of space backstage
for the athletes to pump up which contributed to the easy
atmosphere.
Usually the
figure girls would outnumber physique ladies so it was nice to see
the tables turned with the large number of physiques lined up in
this show. We saw seasoned athletes Tarren McCall (who took out the Masters 45+
and Overall Title) come in great condition but she did have to work
hard against Carolyn Mailo and Jan
Dixon to win both her classes - Masters 45 and Open o55kg.
Erena Young just edged out
Tara Wright in the Novice
u55kg. Teneka
Hyndman as always was in great condition.
She was too hard to take out the Open International Figure but was
just right to take out the physique o55kg class but faced Tarren's
ultra hardened physique in the overall.
There was a
bevvy of babes in the bikini class which was won by Jessyka Benhoom, Anita 2nd and Fabiany 3rd.
The International Figure class
seemed to be the popular choice at the Nationals with most of the
girls competing in this class. We saw beautiful
figures Nuria Novoa, Nury Kusamawati,
Johanna Mountfort, and Simone Jardem via for the Novice
International Figure Title. All had their features but it was Nuria
with her nice round muscle and symmetry that won her the title and
also the Overall Title. Sheryl Webb took out the Bodyfitness Tall
Novice class. In the International Figure Open
we saw beautiful Claire Torr
who's softer figure beating the lean figures of Teneka, Roma and Louise.
We saw some
nice hard figures turn out for the ‘traditional' figure which is
now called bodyfitness. Paula Signal's great condition beat out
Kirtana Clark and
?. Blossom
Cameron is blossoming in her new figure but a shame she was
the only one in her senior figure 45 class. In
the Open Fitness Short class we saw the well conditioned
Jamie Onekawa edging out
Louise Siniah-Burr while
Michelle Dixon's hard figure beat out Sheryl and Kiriana in the Open Bodyfitness
class. In the end it was Jamie's full lean
figure and symmetry that took out the overall over Michelle and
Paula.
Women's
Overalls

Physique: ?, Teneka, Tarren, Erena

BodyFitness: Jamie, Michelle, Paula

Internatinoal Figure:
Claire, Nuria,
Sheryl
There was
some great contests in the men's classes. Some
of the stand out athletes were Jhoon
Law's symmetry and cuts to take the Junior title.
Peter Hunt's outstanding
condition winning the Masters 50+, Teina O'Malley's nice symmetry and mass
taking out the Novice 60-70kg class, the tight contest between
Matt Clark 1st and Lance Te
Kiri for the Novice 80-90kg class and Byron Peach's massive and lean physique
winning the Novice o90kg.
The Open Men's classes provided some tough calls for the judges. So
much so, most of the Opens had to be rejudged at night but we're
sure the audience didn't mind being treated to some great
bodies. In the Open 60-70kg Daniel Hibbs body was ripped like Adonis - but
better!. Every muscle, every striation
was seen everywhere and we mean everywhere including his trademark
ripped glutes to take out the class over much improved condition of
Steve Papps.
The Open 70-80kg was harder to judge with Supry Sos, Kenneth Clayton and Kurt Von ?
all in great condition. All had great symmetry
and mass but it might've just come down to who was the best poser
and was able to squeeze every ounce of their muscle out to win
...and it might've Supry's stage experience that got him
through. Althought Kurt missed out on tis class he did win
the Classic Men's class.
If that class
was hard. The next to come was Open 80-85kg boys
featuring John Dearaza, Sanjeev
Narayan, Johnny and Richard Hughes. The
main battle was between John D and Sanjeev as both of these guys
were in similar condition and hardness. Once
again though it was Sanjeev's symmetry that nudged him ahead of
John. Was a great class to watch!
The night
show was also a well run event which was compered by the comedic
duo of brothers Dallas and Daniel
Hibbs for the first half of the show.
Dallas had a relaxed way about him and kept the audience
entertained throughout the night. Hopefully we've inspired him to
get in shape to perhaps compete at one of next year's shows!
Some of the highlights of the night show was firstly the surprise
guest posing by Moe and Grant
Peterse. They were quite the comic duo going through their
poses on stage as Daniel called the various poses
out. Interesting how well both of them can do
the bikini and figure poses! Think the crowd
appreciated seeing this funny side of them. I know I
did.
After that, we saw Moe handing Darryn
Onekawa his Pro Card, a dream come true for
Darryn. Darryn, who won last year's National
Overall Title, was humble in his acceptance and appreciative of the
card bestowed on him. We look forward to bigger
things from Darryn - how scary is that thought.
Men's Overalls

Robert, Supry, Peter, Teina,

Byron, Sanjeev, Daniel,
Bevan

Supry, Sanjeev, Daniel
The highlight was the great battle for the Overall Men's Title which we saw 11 hot
bodies vying for a space on the limited stage.
At some points, it was getting quite heated but eventually the guys
calmed down to go through their compulsories.
The first call out saw Byron Peach,
Supry Sos, Peter Hunt, Sanjeev Narayan, Daniel Hibbs, Teina
O'Malley and Bevan McKenzie trying to outmuscle each
other. Featuring in 2 further callouts
were Sanjeev and Daniel, with Supry called out for the final
posedown. All 3 had nice symmetry and
mass, but once again Daniel's super condition edged him over the
line to take out the fantastic battle for the
Overalls.
Daniel's now off to compete in the Men's Worlds in
2 weeks. We wish him all the best and we
know he'll do New Zealand proud!

All in all it
was a great day. Well run and efficient for the
athletes and enjoyable for the audience. Thanks
to NZIFBB for letting Go Figure share the experience with our
viewers!
Lisa, Go
Figure
18 October
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