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The World Amateur Bodybuilding Championships is an annual event held in cities around the world. This event, formerly known as IFBB Mr. Universe , is a male bodybuilding contest organised by the International Federation of BodyBuilding & Fitness (IFBB) and first held in 1959.
Mr. World − World Bodybuilding Guild (WBBG; competition defunct) Mr. America. Mr. America − Amateur Athletic Union (AAU; previously) / INBF (previously) [2] Mr. America − IFBB − (competition defunct) Mr. Olympia − IFBB (previously) / IFBB Pro League; Mr. Universe − National Amateur Body-Builders' Association (NABBA) Miss Physique ...
IFBB Mr. Universe, now the World Amateur Bodybuilding Championships , a male bodybuilding contest organised by the International Federation of BodyBuilding & Fitness (IFBB) NABBA Mr. Universe, a Pro/Am competition at the Universe Championships annual bodybuilding event.
The NABBA Universe Championships is conducted under the auspices of NABBA UK and its chairman Jim Charles. A separate competition called IFBB Mr. Universe was organized by the IFBB however, its name was changed to the World Amateur Bodybuilding Championships in 1976. Mr. Universe should not be confused with Mr. Olympia, which began in 1965.
The International Fitness and BodyBuilding Federation (IFBB) is an international professional sports governing body for bodybuilding and fitness. Headquartered in Las Rozas de Madrid, it oversees many of the sport's major international events, notably the World and Continental Championships. [3] [4]
Wide World of Sports was the first U.S. television program to air coverage of – among events – Wimbledon (1961), the Indianapolis 500 (highlights starting in 1961; a longer-form version in 1965), the NCAA Men's Basketball Championship (1962), the Daytona 500 (1962), the U.S. Figure Skating Championships (1962), the Monaco Grand Prix (1962 ...
List of World Amateur Bodybuilding Championships medalists This page was last edited on 23 November 2022, at 16:50 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
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 ...