Ivan Kochetkov: 2011 Championship of Moscow

5'9" 24 year old Russian Ivan Kochetkov, or Иван Кочетков, from Moscow. Ivan was runner up in the 90kgs class at the 2011 Championship of Moscow.

Ruslan Bogatyrev: 265lbs

Ruslan Bogatyrev from Anapa, Russia will turn just 30 on August 18. He was close to 265lbs in the pictures below taken at the beginning on April (the ones above are from the end of the month).

Vladimir Iacovlev: 2014 Moscow Cup Junior!

Vladimir Iacovlev was just 18 in the clip above, at 19 he won the juniors at the 2013 Moscow Cup and last month he won the Juniors at the 2014 Moscow Cup and was runner-up in the open up to 95kgs class (209lbs). Iacovlev will be competing next at the 2014 European Championships in Santa Susanna, Spain.











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Владислав Фатьянов: aka Vladislav Fatyanov

Владислав Фатьянов, 38, from Kaliningrad in Russia. He placed 13th in the heavies at the 2012 European Amateurs.

 

Виталий Фатеев: aka Vitaly Fateev

Igor Vybornov: Russian Heavyweight

Игорь Выборнов, aka Igor Vybornov, placed 4th in the heavies at the 2012 Arnold Amateur. He also won his class at both the Cup of Russia and Northwestern Federal District Cup (Кубок Северо-Западного ФО), but lost the overall at both contests.












See our previous Vybornov post from 2012 here.

Виталий Фатеев: 5 Weeks Out, 268lbs!

Super heavy Виталий Фатеев, or Vitaly Fateev in English, didn't place at the 2012 Arnold Amateur Europe, came in 3rd at the show last year, so now the 5'11" 30 year old from Moscow, and former Moscow Champion,  is looking to do some real damage in Columbus this year. Vitaly was 5 weeks out in pictures above, and above 9 weeks out in the one below.

Sunday Worship: 2013 Roundup!

As last year, here is a roundup of some of the most viewed/popular Sunday Worship posts of 2013,,,







Including three of my favorites...





And the most commented about post of the year...