Jerwin Jones and Karen George emerged winners at Saturday's T&T BodyBuilding Federation National Juniors Championships held at the Ballroom of the Cascadia Hotel in St Ann's, Port-of-Spain. Shani Rocke was the victor in the Miss Body Fitness Open class. Jones, 25, a certified fitness instructor at Millennium Fitness Gym, Macoya, entered the Men's Heavyweight division, but had no credible challengers. He advanced to the Men's Overall, but the competition there was featherweight in comparison to his muscular prowess.
Meanwhile, George, a veteran in the Women's Body Building Open, out of La Joya Health and Fitness, St Joseph, was a clear winner too. Determining a winner in the Women's Body Fitness Open, was not a foregone conclusion. After three appearances, an equal number of contenders from a field of five, had fitness buffs rapt. They were: Shani Rocke, Fatima Al-Aidaroos both of Bio Fitness Gym West Mall; and T'Chelle Harris, who trains at Muscle Master, Sangre Grande. The show produced impressive results from contestants hailing from Tobago, whom the large and enthusiastic audience saluted with sustained and lusty applause.
Mervyn Phillips and Marlon Armstrong comfortably took charge of rivals in the Men's Light Middleweight and Men's Light Heavyweight divisions respectively. Jamaul Sanderson of Life Fitness Gym, Arima, was the centre of attention as he posed and flexed his way into the hearts of the audience and the judges to take home the Men's Middleweight prize, while Sanjay Latchman completed the winners' line-up copping the Men's Lightweight trophy.
Results
Men's Overall:
1 Jerwin Jones
2 Sanjay Latchman
3 Jamaul Sanderson
4 Marlon Armstrong
5 Mervyn Phillip
Women's Body Building Open:
1 Karen George
2 Laura Doon
Women's Body
Fitness Open:
1 Shani Rocke
2 Fatima Al-Aidaros
3 T'chelle Harris
4 Jennel Hamid
5 Nicole Budd
Men's Heavyweight:
1 Jerwin Jones
2 Trevon Perouse
3 Cleon Maurice Pierre
4 Norman Sorzano
5 Oswald Andrews
Men's Light
Heavyweight:
1 Marlon Armstrong
2 Kenrick Burnette
3 Samuel Cassar
4 Garfield Edwards
Men's Middleweight:
1 Jamaul Sanderson
2 Derek Richards
3 Olston Smartt
4 Deokumar Ramroop
Men's Light Middleweight:
1 Mervyn Phillips
2 Rheno Ramberose
3 David Gomez
4 Miguel Jagessar
Men's Lightweight:
1 Sanjay Latchman
2 Dennis Jagessar
3 Adam Dookie
4 Wazim Mohammed
5 Akil Bascome