India Wins 3 Silver And 1 Bronze Medals At 49th IBFF Asian Bodybuilding Championship 2015 in Japan

The 49th IBFF Asian Bodybuilding Championship 2015 was held in Japan from 5th to 7th June 2015. The final were held on Sunday and results were declared. India could not win Gold medal but managed to get 3 silver medals. Overall this is a good performance by the Indian Team compared to the event held last year. All the 3 winner gave tough fight for gold medal. They looked very competitive on stage and they were called on one to one comparison before the judges could decide the winner. Indian team was placed 8th out of 20 country participating in the event. Team Indian Bodybuilding congratulates the winners. The team representing India at the Asian championship is very young and they have time on their side. We hope that they prepare well for next year championship and get us gold. Here are the 3 silver medal winners for India.

Siddhant More wins silver medal in men’s classic bodybuilding upto 180cm

Jai Singh wins silver medal in upto 60kg weight category

Shameer Parappurathedil wins silver medal in upto 65kg weight category

In Womens category, India won 1 bronze medal in Women’s Physique Up to & incl. 163 cm category.
Karuna Waghmare wins Bronze Medal
Photo Credits: Igor Kopcek (www.eastlabs.sk)

Other participants from Indian team that could not get top 3 spots are :
Siddharth Wankhede came 7th in Men’s Physique Over 172 cm category. Ashok Kumar came 12th in Men’s Bodybuilding Up to & incl. 65 kg category. Kumar Pawar came 8th in Men’s Bodybuilding Up to & incl. 80 kg category. Pushpinder Bharti came 10th in Men’s Bodybuilding Up to & incl. 85 kg category. Sachin Galande came 5th in Men’s Bodybuilding Up to & incl. 90 kg category.

The best team performance at the competition was by Iran, who won 6 Gold medals. But the best team award went to Japan because the they got lots of place in women’s category. There were no women athletes from Iran.

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