Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Chizevsky-Nicholls was the first female bodybuilder to win both the Ms. International and Olympia in the same year in 1996. She ranks as the best female bodybuilder in the IFBB Pro Women's Bodybuilding Ranking List until October 22, 2000. [8] [9] In January 2008, Chizevsky was inducted into the IFBB Hall of Fame. [1] [10]
Prior to 1977, bodybuilding had been considered strictly a male-oriented sport. Henry McGhee, described as the "primary architect of competitive female bodybuilding", was an employee of the Downtown Canton YMCA, carried a strong belief that women should share the opportunity to display their physiques and the results of their weight training the way men had done for years.
The National Amateur Body-Builders' Association, more commonly referred to as NABBA, was founded in the United Kingdom in 1950 by the Health & Strength League to promote bodybuilding. Although the original intention was to promote physique contests in the UK, the popularity of the Mr Universe contest, and later Ms Universe contest, drew ...
Onweagba was urged by a family friend to enter into the M-Net "Face of Africa" preliminary screening at the M-Net office in Victoria Island, Lagos in the year 1997. [7] The agency groomed her to be one of Nigeria's entrants for the 1998 competition (rebranded as the Nokia Face of Africa).
Elements of Portuguese architecture introduced by returnee ex-slaves from Brazil and the Caribbean, although present all over the city, predominates in places like: Lagos Island, Surulere and Yaba Municipalities. [1] [2] [3] Colonial-styled architecture flourished during the Lagos Colony. The Lagos skyline is a mixture of modern high rise ...
Women in Management, Business and Public Service (WIMBIZ) is a Nigerian non-profit organization dedicated to promoting and supporting women in leadership roles. The organization is of African roots with a global perspective of connecting and inspiring women across the globe to catalyze their growth to leadership positions and contribution to ...
At the time, she could deadlift 225 pounds, bench press 120 pounds, and squat 265 pounds. [ 4 ] Although Lyon is often cited as the first female bodybuilder to appear in Playboy (in October 1980), [ 2 ] she was actually predated by stripper and bodybuilder Kellie Everts , who appeared in a May 1977 pictorial called "Humping Iron".
Davies-Okundaye chooses to continuously reference adire patterns in her artwork because adire is a women's art and was taught to her by her mother. Adire pattern motifs were traditionally passed down from mother to daughter, and the designs themselves have virtually not changed in form over time. [13]