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Wednesday, July 23, 2025

Sport World Clas­sic

T&T seeks revenge on Bajans

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Lo­cal body­build­ing ath­letes in­tend to ham­mer their coun­ter­parts from Bar­ba­dos at this Sat­ur­day's 13th an­nu­al Sport World Clas­sic event which is be­ing tout­ed as a re­venge cham­pi­onship says pro­mot­er and for­mer body-builder Lawrence "The Beast" Mar­shall.

Ba­jan mus­cle-man Steven­son Belle won last year's com­pe­ti­tion and was sched­uled to re­turn with an even larg­er team for the high­ly an­tic­i­pat­ed week­end fit­ness cham­pi­onship ad­ver­tised to take place at the Cen­tre of Ex­cel­lence in Ma­coya.

Na­tive mus­cle men would seek to re­claim na­tion­al pride at the fit­ness and physique show­case sched­uled to start at 6.30 pm.

Ba­jan ath­letes would not be the on­ly vis­i­tors ex­pect­ed at the week­end play­bill vy­ing for ma­jor ho­n­ours, how­ev­er, as ath­letes from Grena­da stat­ed their in­tent to re­turn and com­pete, as well. Com­pe­ti­tion of­fi­cials were al­so ex­cit­ed and ea­ger to wel­come con­tenders from St Maarten and Mex­i­co, too.

But, that's was not where Sport World Clas­sic of­fi­cials end their wel­come.

Jose Ray­mond from the Unit­ed States and British na­tive William Bonac, both con­tenders for the Mr Olympia in the 212 cat­e­go­ry, were sched­uled guest posers.

Mar­shall said there was spe­cial an­tic­i­pa­tion among fit­ness buffs cit­ing the in­tro­duc­tion of the Miss Biki­ni and Mr Physique cat­e­gories.

"There is a grow­ing need for cit­i­zens to get fit. The fit­ness in­dus­try has tak­en off by storm. A lot of gyms have opened up: in the east, west, north and south. And more are still open­ing up. In terms of the biki­ni con­test, you have a lot of women com­ing in­to it be­cause it is a soft­er side to the body­build­ing. Women nev­er liked that mus­cu­lar look. Miss Biki­ni had about 30 com­peti­tors. In term of Mr Physique there are about 25 com­peti­tors.

"Based on what I saw at the Na­tion­al Ju­nior Body­build­ing a lot of women came out for that com­pe­ti­tion. And they have been ask­ing when is the next com­pe­ti­tion? The Sport World Clas­sic is that next com­pe­ti­tion. These girls are get­ting ready to rep­re­sent the coun­try. I can see a fu­ture where these girls will be bat­tling to rep­re­sent this coun­try," Mar­shall said.

He be­lieved the abil­i­ty of his pro­duc­tion team to of­fer an over­all prize val­ued at $40,000 was the in­spi­ra­tion need­ed to bring out the best ath­letes at the Clas­sic.

Hav­ing Sport World as the ti­tle spon­sor was made easy, he said, cit­ing that the com­pa­ny saw the val­ue of the tour­na­ment on the na­tion­al sport­ing land­scape.


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