African Nations Championship ”Assoukabody Benin 2024″ : A major event

After the 4th National Bodybuilding and Fitness Championship, place at the African Nations Championship ”Assoukabody Benin 2024″ that Cotonou expects to welcome on Saturday 16 Next November in the red room of the Palais des Congrès. For this purpose, the organizing committee for this major muscle exhibition event held a press conference on Thursday 7 November 2024 to reveal the main points of this continental competition.

This is a first since the creation of the Beninese Federation of Bodybuilding and Fitness (FBBF). Several countries are announced to take part in this continental competition. Athletes from Togo, from Niger, from Burkina Faso, from Ivory Coast, from Gabon, of Ghana, of Nigeria, of Mali, from Equatorial Guinea, from Cameroon and many others are expected in the economic capital of Benin which will be the crossroads of African Bodybuilding. According to the Vice-President of the Beninese Federation of Bodybuilding and Fitness, this is a perfect opportunity to reveal Benin through bodybuilding in French and Bodybuilding in English, a sporting discipline which every day attracts more desire among the Beninese population. “Men and women with well-sculpted bodies, with lean, well-defined muscles, offering a stable aesthetic that enhances them, bodybuilding competitions constitute a meeting between the beautiful, the challenges, and a crazy atmosphere from the public », said Serge Amadou. Our conviction will say the Director of Communication of the Beninese Federation of Bodybuilding and Fitness, Etienne Yémadjè through the organization of the first African Nations Championship ”Assoukabody Benin 2024″, has established “for a long time that any sports federation which aspires to progress in sport must be the backbone of the promotion of the sporting discipline which it has embraced. For us bodybuilding and fitness players, these two disciplines are essential activities for the physical and moral balance of any individual. Their main function is also to put man in harmony with himself and create cultural mixing., while bringing together people from around the world around the same passion, the sport. Likewise, Bodybuilding and Fitness positively occupy Man and transform him in all his dimensions”. For Radegonde Adounkpè, representative of women within the executive committee of the Beninese Federation of Bodybuilding and Fitness and member of the organizing committee, it is therefore an opportunity that the Beninese Federation of Bodybuilding and Fitness “offers to advertisers to promote their product and sell the image of their brand And therefore, the national bodybuilding and fitness championship gives you an opening to new opportunities and projects the image of your company around the world. So, become partners and sponsors of this competition ».

The president of the Executive Committee of the FBBF and president of the Organizing Committee of the 1st African Nations Championship of ASSOUKABODY Benin 2024, Welcome Vodounou in his speech presented the main aspects of the technical aspect of the competition. He will have emphasized among men, 8 categories to know : Junior Classic Bodybuilding (17 at 27 years) Men’s Physique (1,73m -1,76m) ; Master Men’s Physique (1,79 m – 1,85m) ; Men’s Classic (1,71m- 1,75m) ; Master Men’s Classic Physique (1,76m – 1,80m +) ; Men’s Body 3 (70 kg- 75 kg) ; Men’s Body 2 (80kg -85 kg) ; Men’s Body 1 (90 Kg – 100 Kg+) and at the level of Ladies three : Women’s Physique ; Women’s Fitness et Women’s Bikini. Concerning Beninese athletes, informs Bienvenu Vodounou “the preparations are going well easily. Nos 21 athletes who are put on green work tirelessly under the leadership of the national coach, Évrard Gbozinkpa. Our financial strength being limited, we have put in place the means to ensure the preparations of national champion Romain Zannou, potential medal chance for our country, who has been staying since the day after the national championship ».

He took the opportunity to thank the Minister of Sports, Benoît Dato and the Head of State Patrice Talon for the support of the Republic for Beninese sport in general and Bodybuilding in particular while inviting the public to make the trip massively on Saturday November 16 2024.

Faithful AKODODJA (Coll)