Competitors from five nations confirmed for 2019 Stage of Champions
Winners at the Senior National Championships: Rosanna Fung and Marlon Bennett are set to represent Guyana.
Winners at the Senior National Championships: Rosanna Fung and Marlon Bennett are set to represent Guyana.

COMPETITORS from five nations, including host country Guyana, will participate in this year’s Camille’s Academy Stage of Champions IV Fight to the Finish, which is scheduled for the Theatre Guild, in Kingston, Georgetown on Saturday,October 19.

Coordinator Videsh Sookram confirmed that participants from Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados and Antigua would join their Guyanese counterparts for the bodybuilding, bikini and men’s physique events.

Among the big overseas names expected for the bodybuilding competition are Mr. Suriname 2019, Fabian Wehl, Antigua’s Warren English, T&T’s Barry Copilah, who is the Twin Island Republic 2018 National Junior Champion.

English, who captivated the audience last month at the Guyana Bodybuilding and Fitness Federation (GBBFF) Senior National Championships as a guest poser, is Guyanese by birth.
The overseas participants will face 2019 Mr. Guyana, Marlon Bennett, rising star Derran Harris, who won the U143 pounds category at seniors after winning the novices bodybuilding competition earlier this year, and one of Guyana’s most decorated bodybuilders, Sylvan Gardner, among others.

Warren English dazzled the Guyanese audience at the Senior Championships as a guest poser.

Gardner, who confirmed his participation over the weekend, has a string of international wins, including the 2008 MuscleMania Superbody Championships, and three gold medals at the Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Bodybuilding Championships.
A number of persons are expected to take part in the Mr. Physique competition, including reigning Mr Novices Physique, Delroy Phillips.

So far, two Guyanese women have signed up to compete in the bikini competition: reigning Senior National Ms. Bikini champion Rosanna Fung and Tower Gym’s Amrita Shiwdas. Three Surinamese will also travel for the event: Militia Galimo, Tatiana Bawon and Jo Pereira.
Sookram said that along with Camille’s Academy Diamond and Soesdyke branches, Fitness Express and Tower, powered by Unity Gym, are sponsoring the championships.

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