European Championships 2005: Estonia’s bronze medals
The European Championships brought Estonia 2 bronze medals: Ott Kiivikas took 3rd place in the men’s bodybuilding -95 kg category, and Imre Vähi also finished 3rd in the men’s bodyfitness open category. The Estonian team will remember the Brasov competition for strong stage condition, solid teamwork and a clear sign that our athletes are names to be reckoned with at the European level.
Why the European Championships mattered to Estonia
The 2005 EUROPEAN MEN’S BODYBUILDING, FITNESS & BODY-FITNESS AND MIXED PAIRS BODYBUILDING CHAMPIONSHIPS took place in Brasov, Romania – May 6 – 9, 2005. The results were published with the note: Standings prior to the doping test results.
For Estonia, the picture was simple and cheerful. Two athletes came home with bronze, two men made it into the final standings in their categories, and the Team’s Classification line read Estonia / 23 / 9. Considering that the competition had 91 COMPETITORS AND 24 COUNTRIES IN TOTAL, this is a very strong result.
Ott KIIVIKAS finished the BODYBUILDING 95 kg category with the result 1 / Ott KIIVIKAS / Estonia / 11 / 11 / 14 / 25 / 3. That meant bronze in very tough company, with David PEREZ of Spain and Martin DRAB of the Czech Republic ahead of him.
Imre VAHI did the same in the men’s bodyfitness open category: 3 / Imre VAHI / Estonia / 14 / 17 / 11 / 28 / 3. That was bronze too, and no fluke. On a stage like this, everything counts: shape, conditioning, proportions, confidence, and whether the athlete can hold the same look through the final rounds.
Indrek OTSUS took 8th place in the BODYBUILDING -75 kg category, and Riho HALGMA finished 9th in the MEN’S FITNESS – open category. That may not sound as dazzling as a medal, but reaching the final standings at a European Championships is a solid achievement in itself.
European Championships: Estonian results
To sum up the Estonian team’s results briefly, the medals came from two categories. Men’s bodybuilding -95 kg: Ott Kiivikas – 3rd place. Men’s bodyfitness (open category): Imre Vähi – 3rd place. Men’s bodybuilding -75 kg: Indrek Otsus – 8th place. Fitness: Riho Halgma – 9th place.
Congratulations to everyone! Results like these are not made in the last week of effort. They are the sum of months and years of work, diet, posing, recovery and competition nerves. Honestly, this is the harsh side of bodybuilding: the audience sees a few minutes on stage, but the real work was done long before the spotlights came on.
The photo report from the competition has finally been posted as well. A video of how the Estonian athletes were welcomed in Tallinn was originally available on the sport.etv.ee page. The link has since been removed because the original reference no longer works, but the event itself deserves to be remembered.
How to read the results
The tables below preserve the original logic of the competition: No / NAME / COUNTRY / R1 / R2 / R3 / R2+R3 / PLACE. Some categories listed TOTAL, and in fitness a different aspect of the routine was also judged. Dashes in a row mean the athlete did not make it into the scoring of the following rounds.
So what actually happens? The judges don’t score big muscle alone. In bodybuilding, symmetry, conditioning, muscle separation, posing and the overall picture all count. Fitness adds a performance element. In bodyfitness, the emphasis is on stage appearance, proportions and overall impression. That is why a small point gap in one round can end up deciding the medal.
European Championships by category
BODYBUILDING – 65 kg
No / NAME / COUNTRY / R1 / R2 / R3 / R2+R3 / PLACE 5 / Michal HLINKA / Slovakia / 5 / 5 / 5 / 10 / 1 3 / Anatolu MASIMOV / Azerbaijan / 10 / 10 / 11 / 21 / 2 1 / Grzegorz SOCHACKI / Poland / 15 / 15 / 17 / 32 / 3 4 / Petru MOJA / Romania / 26 / 20 / 17 / 37 / 4 7 / Petr KOVACIK / Slovakia / 26 / 25 / 15 / 40 / 5 6 / Joel SCHEEK / Netherlands / 29 / - / - / - / 6 10 / Frantisek HORAK / Czech Republic / 30 / - / - / - / 7 2 / Emil Marius GIURGIU / Romania / 40 / - / - / - / 8 9 / Jose BELEM / Luxemburg / 45 / - / - / - / 9
BODYBUILDING – 70 kg
No / NAME / COUNTRY / R1 / R2 / R3 / R2+R3 / PLACE 3 / Angelo MAGGIORE / Italy / 5 / 5 / 5 / 10 / 1 9 / Slavisa DJORDJEVIC / Serbia & Mont. / 13 / 12 / 11 / 33 / 2 2 / Sinisa PRIVULOVIC / Serbia & Mont. / 19 / 18 / 18 / 36 / 3 7 / Thomas NUHN / Germany / 27 / 17 / 20 / 37 / 4 4 / Francesco CASA / Spain / 20 / 24 / 22 / 46 / 5 10 / Soner ICOZ / Turkey / 32 - / - / - / 6 11 / Ioan MOLDOVAN / Romania / 35 / - / - / - / 7 5 / Costel TORCEA / Romania / 44 / - / - / - / 8 6 / Urtan YILDRIM / Turkey / 47 - / - / - / 9 8 / Sergei ZIVAEV / Israel / 48 - / - / - / 10 1 / Lee WILLIAMS / United Kingdom / 49 / - / - / - / 11 12 / Iliyan TONEV / Bulgaria / 55 / - / - / - / 12
BODYBUILDING – 75 kg
No / NAME / COUNTRY / R1 / R2 / R3 / R2+R3 / PLACE 3 / Grzegorz OZGA / Poland / 8 / 14 / 7 / 21 / 1 2 / Oscar Luis MARIN / Spain / 15 / 12 / 11 / 23 / 2 10 / Jean MEGA / France / 25 / 14 / 15 / 29 / 3 5 / Filippo MASUCCI / Italy / 16 / 15 / 20 / 35 / 4 11 / Igor LOSEV / Russia / 19 / 25 / 20 / 45 / 5 7 / Salvatore SABATELLI / Italy / 28 / - / - / - / 6 6 / Predrag MILOSEVIC / Serbia & Mont. / 35 / - / - / - / 7 1 / Indrek OTSUS / Estonia / 47 / - / - / - / 8 8 / Semih BOGA Turkey / 48 / - / - / - / 9 4 / Germain LOUISA / Netherlands / 48 / - / - / - / 10 9 / Vangelis HADJIVASILIOY / Cyprus / 50 / - / - / - / 11
BODYBUILDING – 80 kg
No / NAME / COUNTRY / R1 / R2 / R3 / R2+R3 / PLACE 10 / Juan GIMENEZ / Spain / 8 / 8 / 6 / 14 / 1 4 / Jan KUBIK / Czech Republic / 7 / 7 / 12 / 19 / 2 11 / Francesco COPPOLA / Italy / 23 / 19 / 12 / 31 / 3 9 / Marko DIMITRIJEVIC / Serbia & Mont. / 17 / 17 / 20 / 37 / 4 6 / Hasan HYUSEIN / Bulgaria / 22 / 23 / 22 / 45 / 5 8 / Stephen GRAHAM / United Kingdom / 31 / - / - / - / 6 1 / Andonis GEORGHIOU / Cyprus / 35 / - / - / - / 7 2 / Zarghame AMIRICHOLANDEIM / Romania / 38 / - / - / - / 8 7 / Alexander MENIS / Israel / 45 / - / - / - / 9
BODYBUILDING 87.5 kg
No / NAME / COUNTRY / R1 / R2 / R3 / R2+R3 / PLACE 8 / Lukas OSLADIL / Czech Republic / 8 / 5 / 5 / 10 / 1 5 / Peter TATARKA / Slovakia / 14 / 13 / 15 / 28(*) / 2 3 / Stefan HAVLIK / Slovakia / 14 / 15 / 13 / 28(*) / 3 6 / Marek BOROWICZ / Poland / 21 / 16 / 17 / 33 / 4 11 / Laurent ERASME / France / 28 / 25 / 25 / 50 / 5 1 / Hugo QUINTA Portugal / 31 / - / - / - / 6 10 / Danil DRAGANICHKI / Bulgaria / 35 / - / - / - / 7 7 / Predrag PETROVIC / Serbia & Mont. / 45 / - / - / - / 8 4 / Rustam AGHAYEV / Azerbaijan / 46 / - / - / - / 9 2 / Toshko TODOROV / Bulgaria / 47 / - / - / - / 10 9 / Angelo ALEXA / Romania / 52 - / - / - / 11 (*) This tie has been solved according to the Round 2 results
BODYBUILDING 95 kg
No / NAME / COUNTRY / R1 / R2 / R3 / R2+R3 / PLACE 7 / David PEREZ / Spain / 7 / 6 / 5 / 11 / 1 5 / Martin DRAB / Czech Republic / 13 / 12 / 10 / 22 / 2 1 / Ott KIIVIKAS / Estonia / 11 / 11 / 14 / 25 / 3 3 / Boris PRIHRADSKY / Slovakia / 17 / 19 / 19 / 38 / 4 4 / Sinisa STANKOVIC / Serbia & Mont. / 27 / 25 / 15 / 40 / 5 6 / Eric CASTAGNET / France / 29 / - / - / - / 6 2 / Krikor OHANIAN / Cyprus / 35 / - / - / - / 7
BODYBUILDING over 95 kg
No / NAME / COUNTRY / R1 / R2 / R3 / R2+R3 / PLACE 8 / Arkadiusz SZYDERSKI / Poland / 5 / 5 / 5 / 10 / 1 4 / Rastislav SOLAR / Slovakia / 14 / 12 / 14 / 26 / 2 6 / Dmytro SALIK / Ukraine / 13 / 18 / 15 / 33 / 3 3 / Alessandro GRASSI / Italy / 23 / 15 / 20 / 35 / 4 1 / Goran NIKOLIC / Serbia & Mont. / 20 / 22 / 22 / 44 / 5 5 / Roman GRUBER / Austria / 29 / - / - / - / 6 7 / Rifat BAYRAK / Turkey / 36 / - / - / - / 7 2 / Octavian MIHAITA / Romania / 39 / - / - / - / 8
MEN’S OVERALL CHAMPION: Lukas OSLADIL Czech Republic
Bodyfitness, fitness and mixed pairs
In addition to classic bodybuilding, the programme included BODYBUILDING – MIXED PAIRS, MEN’S FITNESS – open and MEN’S BODY-FITNESS open. For Estonia, the most important results here were Imre VAHI’s 3rd place in bodyfitness and Riho HALGMA’s 9th place in fitness.
BODYBUILDING – MIXED PAIRS
No / NAME / COUNTRY / R1 / R2 / R3 / R2+R3 / PLACE 11 / Agnieszka RYK / Arkadiusz SZYDERSKI / Poland / 5 / 5 / 8 / 13 / 1 12 / Alina POPA / Angelo ALEXA / Romania / 10 / 10 / 13 / 23 / 2 13 / Irina MUNTEAN / Costel TORCEA / Romania / 15 / 15 / 9 / 24 / 3 14 / Florica ROVENTA / Zarghame AMIRICHOLANDEIM / Romania / 20 / 20 / 20 / 40 / 4
MEN’S FITNESS – open
No / NAME / COUNTRY / R1 / R2 / R3 / TOTAL / PLACE 6 / Stanislav ZAYNILOV / Russia / 6 / 17 / 5 / 28 / 1 3 / Tomasz PIETRAS / Poland / 10 / 16 / 10 / 36 / 2 7 / Andriy KARPIKOV / Ukraine / 14 / 18 / 15 / 47 / 3 5 / Ivan NASTENKO / Ukraine / 25 / 12 / 20 / 57 / 4 8 / Michal PETEREK / Czech Republic / 25 / 29 / 25 / 79 / 5 1 / Mihai PETRAICHE / Romania / 26 / 28 / - / 54 / 6 2 / Alin CAMPAN / Austria / 37 / 32 / - / 69 / 7 9 / Alexandru GRIGORESCU / Romania / 35 / 40 / - / 75 / 8 4 / Riho HALGMA / Estonia / 45 / 36 / - / 81 / 9
MEN’S BODY-FITNESS open
No / NAME / COUNTRY / R1 / R2 / R3 / R2+R3 / PLACE 8 / Lubos MALINAK / Slovakia / 6 / 8 / 5 / 13 / 1 6 / Marcin LOPUCKI / Poland / 21 / 9 / 18 / 27 / 2 3 / Imre VAHI / Estonia / 14 / 17 / 11 / 28 / 3 11 / Josef FURIN / Czech Republic / 21 / 16 / 18 / 34 / 4 1 / Antonio FERRARA / Germany / 20 / 25 / 22 / 47 / 5 5 / Kristjan SAMUELSSON / Iceland / 27 / - / - / - / 6 4 / Sigurbjorn GUDMUNDSSON / Iceland / 36 / - / - / - / 7 2 / Slaven PETROVIC / Croatia / 37 / - / - / - / 8 7 / Marios THEOCHAROUS / Cyprus / 44 / - / - / - / 9 12 / Ivan STRUGAREVIC / Serbia & Mont. / 49 / - / - / - / 10 9 / Mykhaylo MYSHCHENKO / Ukraine / 53 / - / - / - / 11
What to take away from this competition
Here’s a simple truth: strong shape alone isn’t enough on the European stage. You have to be ready on exactly the right day. In bodybuilding, that means training, nutrition, water and sodium manipulation, stage makeup, posing and recovery from travel all have to come together. One weak link can cost you a place; several weak links will knock you out of the final. The standard at the European Championships has risen every year, and Estonian athletes have to factor that in.
The Estonian athletes’ results showed that a podium finish is possible from here. Ott Kiivikas and Imre Vähi both did it at the same competition. Indrek Otsus and Riho Halgma added placings to the table that bring the Estonian national team points and experience. Competitions like this shouldn’t be judged by medals alone, because the strength of a national team is also shown by how many of its athletes manage to stand out in the international lineup.
Team’s Classification
COUNTRY TOTAL POINTS / PLACE Poland / 88 / 1 Slovakia / 78 / 2 Czech Republic / 57 / 3 Spain / 50 / 4 Serbia & Montenegro / 48 / 5 Italy / 44 / 6 Romania / 43 / 7 Ukraine / 25 / 8 Estonia / 23 / 9 Russia / 22 / 10 France / 20 / 11 Azerbaijan / 14 / 12 Germany / 13 / 13 Turkey / 13 / 14 Bulgaria / 11 / 15 Cyprus / 10 / 16 Austria / 9 / 17 Iceland / 9 / 17 Netherlands / 6 / 19 Portugal / 5 / 20 United Kingdom / 5 / 20 Croatia / 3 / 22 Israel / 3 / 23 Luxemburg / 2 / 24
FAQ
How many medals did Estonia win?
Estonia won 2 bronze medals. Ott Kiivikas placed 3rd in the BODYBUILDING 95 kg category, and Imre Vähi placed 3rd in the MEN’S BODY-FITNESS open category.
Where and when did the competition take place?
The competition took place in Brasov, Romania – May 6 – 9, 2005. It was the 2005 EUROPEAN MEN’S BODYBUILDING, FITNESS & BODY-FITNESS AND MIXED PAIRS BODYBUILDING CHAMPIONSHIPS.
Where did Estonia place in the team classification?
In the Team’s Classification table, Estonia was listed as Estonia / 23 / 9. The total recorded was 91 COMPETITORS AND 24 COUNTRIES IN TOTAL.
Author: https://kulturism.ee/
Source: WHO – physical activity.
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