Bulawayo Bodybuilders leave for Mr and Ms Zimbabwe
THE Bulawayo bodybuilding team left for Harare yesterday to compete at the Mr and Ms Zimbabwe show at 7 Arts Theatre tomorrow.
All 13 competitors, nine men and four women are from Body Works Gym, whose United Kingdom-based owner Nathan Greenland accompaniedompanied them to the national event. Lovemore Munyamana,nyamana, Thembinkosi Lunga, Zibusiso Khumalo,o, Blessing Timburwa, Pardon Dube, Durrell Hamilton, Marvelous Ganda, Gabriel Gwapedza and Mugoni Chikoveve form the male contingent.
The females compriseprise Greenland, Eulene Ndlovu, Mitchellchell Matsito as well as Selina Manuel.el.
The athletes, under the guidanceance of seasoned trainer Simonmon Gama, were upbeat ahead of their departure, with hopes of haulingauling a number of medals from Harare.
Last year, the Bulawayo bodybuildersdybuilders put up a splendid show at the nationall competition. Shantel Greenland won Ms Zimbabwe beach bikini, Khumalo was the best male Under-20, Manuelanuel walked away with the girls’ fitness title and Munyamananyamana walked away with bronze in the male Under--75kgs. Shant eell Besides Shantel Greenland, Munyamana, Khumalo and Manuel, other Bulawayo athletes with high chances of bringing home medals are Dube and Lunga. Dube, a runner-up in the 2016 Mr Ironman Zimbabwe in the men’s physique category, missed Mr Zimbabwe last year due to injury, while Lunga tremendously improved from a fifth place finish in the BodBody Works Classics last year to be runnrunner-up at last Saturday’s Mr BulawayoBulawayo. Support for the BulawBulawayo team came from Nathan Greenland,Greenl who is paying for accommoaccommodation in Harare, while Admire Gomera provided fuel for the tritrip. Prince Chimukuku of Prigar MarketingM provided T-shirts aand caps, Last Mazorera chipped in with ccash and Bhekani Mlilo, owner oof Veezed Tyres and Alignment Centre, assisassisted with t r anspora t . — @ MdaMdawini_29