The Item: IFBB Pro League Contest Results, Andrew Oye's IFBB Pro Athletes Roundup
The Scoop: Just Announced: Over the weekend, IFBB Pro Roelly Winklaar rolled his way to a 1st place
victory at the 2014 IFBB Nordic Pro Bodybuilding Championships in
Lahti, Finland. Firefighter and IFBB Pro Steve Kuclo claimed the 2nd
place runner-up spot. Powerlifter and IFBB Pro Johnnie Jackson took 3rd
place. IFBB Pro Ronny Rockel landed in 4th place, trailed by IFBB Pro
Robert Piotrkowicz in the 5th position.
The remaining field: IFBB
Pro Jeno Kiss (6th), MMA fighter and IFBB Pro Robert Burneika (7th),
falling from 4th place in 2013 was IFBB Pro Alexey Lesukov (8th),
dropping from 3rd place last year was IFBB Pro Aliaksei Shabunia (9th),
IFBB Pro Mario Vansteenberghe (10th), IFBB Pro Nikitas Manolakis (11th),
IFBB Pro Oleg Emelyanov (12th), IFBB Pro Vladimir Agrinskiy (13th),
IFBB Pro Alexandre Nataf (14th), followed by IFBB Pro Dainius Barzinskas
and IFBB Pro Timo Honkala.
The "So What?": As reported in "Andrew Oye's Pro Muscle Report," the IFBB Pro Olympia
Qualification Series Point System (1st automatic qualification, 2nd - 4
Points, 3rd - 3 Points, 4th - 2 Points, 5th - 1 Point) applies to IFBB
Pro League athletes' eligibility to compete at Joe Weider's Olympia
Weekend to challenge reigning Mr. Olympia IFBB Pro Phil Heath. With his
recent win, Roelly Winklaar essentially "reclaimed" a title he had
claimed in 2012, when he won the inaugural Nordic Pro. IFBB Pro
Baitollah Abbaspour, who has dropped weight to compete in the 212
Division, did not return to defend the title he won at the 2013 Nordic
Pro. For the last two years year, the Scandinavia-based pro bodybuilding
contest had been the last competition before the Olympia Weekend;
however, this year, the Nordic Pro was the fifth show in a string of
post-Olympia events on an international grand-prix tour for IFBB Open
Division competitors.
Andrew Oye's Verdict: Roelly Winklaar has been looking humongous lately, ever since competing
at the 50th Anniversary Mr. Olympia Championships where he took 12th
place in September (below expectations for the man who had finished 7th
in 2013, behind IFBB Pro Jay Cutler but ahead of IFBB Pro Mamdouh
Elssbiay, a.k.a "Big Ramy," and IFBB Pro Branch Warren). The win in
Finland may be a nod for him based solely on the caliber of the
competition he faced there. A word of caution: the mass
added since his winning comeback (after a motorcycle accident) at the
Chicago Pro Championships in July is (from certain angles and when not
completely detailed) affecting his physique's balance. Shredding is key.
Perhaps something between his Chicago look and his current look might
be a comfortable middle ground. In the eyes of many, the balance and
conditioning of another comeback kid -- diabetic Ronny Rockel, who cut
his 2013 season short and returned in 2014 to a 10th place finish in
Prague and 9th place finish in Italy -- should have placed the German
between or above both Winklaar and Kuclo (winner of the Arnold Sports
Festival's 2014 IFBB Pro Arnold Schwarzenegger Classic Bodybuilding in
Brasil in April).
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