2009 Olympia Blog

The Olympia is approaching rapidly and will be here before we know it, if you don’t have your plans ready to go then you better start planning now!

The Olympia is the biggest event in the industry and features an amazing expo with some great features and events to keep you busy all weekend. Not to mention the Mr. Olympia, Ms Olympia, Figure Olympia & Fitness Olympia events.

Get you travel arraignments ready and buy your tickets now right here.

For more information check out mrolympia.com

With 163 days left till the Olympia takes over the Bodybuilding and Fitness World here are your qualified contestants for the 2009 Ms. Olympia as of April 20^th.

Armbrust, Heather
Aukland, Lisa
Cadeau, Dayana
Kyle, Iris
Laszewski, Debi
LeFrancois, Cathy
Oriquen-Garcia, Yaxeni
Turell, Isabelle
Viana-Adkins, Betty

Iris Kyle has been Ms. Olympia 4 of the last 5 years, will she win again? All we can do is wait and see.

Check back for Olympia updates soon.

After some intense competition already this year here is who has qualified to participate in the 2009 Fitness Olympia.

Da Silva, Regiane
Durkin, Tina
Greenwood, Tracey
Hendershott, Jen
Johnson, Tanji
Meteraud, Shannon
Palmer, Julie
Scheideler, Kim
Warren, Trish

So far there is some great competition and some amazing competitors lined up, the anticipation for the Olympia only grows strong everyday and after the Europa Show of Champions this weekend there is no saying who might be added to this list.

Here is the list for the candidates who have qualified for the 2009 Olympia as of today.

Adcock, Sonia
Aliotti, Gina
Anthony, Teresa
Arcinas, Huong
Brant, Monica
Ford, Jamie
Fortier, April
Fry, Amy
Gates, Jennnifer
Lado, Mary Elizabeth
Lynn, Jenny
Mello, Patricia
Raudoniene, Zivile
Richardson, Kristal
Romero, Felicia
Smith, Brenda

There are still lots of qualifying shows for this year so the Olympia is sure to be a great show with a line up that makes it hard to pick a possible winner.

The contest season is well under way and has a exciting weekend coming up at the 2009 Europa Show of Champions in Orlando, Florida.

Here is who has qualified for the 2009 Olympia so far;

Anthony, Melvin
Cutler, Jay
Elmoussawi, Moe
Freeman, Toney
Greene, Kai
Haidar, Ahmad
Heath, Phil
Jackson, Dexter
Kefalianos, Michael
Kjellstrom, Martin
Martinez, Victor
Rockel, Ronny
Samuel, Silvio
Warren, Branch
Wolf, Dennis
Yamagishi, Hidetada

1. Jenn Gates
2. Gina Aliotti
3. Zivile Raudoniene
4. Jenny Lynn
5. Mary Lado
6. Sonia Adcock
7. Kristal Richardson
8. Amy Fry
9. Nicole Wilkins
10. Heather Mae French
11. Lenay Hernandez
12. Julie Ann Kulla
13. Huong Arcinas
14. Jessica Paxson-Putnam
15. Jelena Abbou
16. Teresa Anthony
17. Jane Awad

(Rest are tied for 18th.)

More ‘08 Olympia results will be posted here as they become available:

http://contest.bodybuilding.com/results/6432

Watch the the replay of the 2008 Olympia Finals!

http://webcast.bodybuilding.com/fitshow/2008olympia/webcast/sm/men_final_1.html

Congratulations go out to the new Mr. Olympia, Dexter Jackson - a well-deserved win!

All the 2008 Olympia Winners are now being brought out onto the stage:  Dexter Jackson, David Henry, Jen Gates, Jenny Hendershott, and Iris Kyle!

3rd place
Phil Heath

2nd place
Jay Cutler
1st and 2008 mr Olympia
Dexter Jackson

Everybody is rising for him…

Phil Heath, 3rd Place

It’s time now for the Mr. Olympis Top 6 posedown - and the top 6 bodybuilders are all looking very impressive.

If you’re wondering where the live webcast is, click here:

http://webcast.bodybuilding.com/fitshow/2008olympia/webcast/big/big.html

Impressive! 

1)  Dexter Jackson - $155,000
2)  Jay Cutler - $90,000
3)  Phil Heath - $60,000
4)  Dennis Wolf - $48,000
5)  Toney Freeman - $38,000
6)  Melvin Anthony - $30,000
7)  Silvio Samuel - $18,000
8)  Dennis James - $17,000
9)  Moe Elmoussawi - $16,000
10)  Gustavo Badell - $14,000

Congrats, Dexter!! 

Congrats, Jen!

1)  Jennifer Gates!!
2)  Gina Aliotti
3)  Zivile Raudoniene
4)  Jenny Lynn
5)  Mary Lado
6)  Sonia Adcock