BABGOC (Jakarta) – The Pre National Championship or Pre-PON for Body Building was held on Saturday (19/05) at Balai Sarbini, The Plaza Semanggi, Jakarta.

The championship, titled ABS Night of Champions, involves 139 body builders from 32 provinces and presents 5 categories: 55kg, 60kg, 65kg, 70kg, 75kg, 80kg, 85kg and 85+kg.

(source: http://www.bali2008.com/69.html)

The championship will also be a qualification stage for bodybuilders who will be participating in next year’s Asian Beach Games in Bali.

The Bali Asian Beach Games 2008 will be held from October 18th – 26th 2008. It is considered to be the largest multi sport beach event in the world and will be attended by more than 50,000 people, from 45 Asian countries and regions.

Bodybuilding will be one of the 14 sports discpline competed during the event. Other sports include sailing, paragliding, surfing, windsurfing, woodball, beach soccer, beach handball, triathlon, marathon swimming, beach sepak takraw, dragon boat and beach volleyball.

At the last category, the event had one big surprise when renowned Indonesian bodybuilder Ade Rai made a comeback in the 85+kg category representing DKI Jakarta.

Here are the lists of top five in each category who will compete at PON XVII in East Kalimantan and ABG next year:

55kg
Fauzan (South Sulawesi)
Wombaki (South Sulawesi)
Agus (East Java)
Uus M. Yusuf (West Java)
Hendi Hendryana (Bangka Belitung)

60kg
Man Suman (Gorontalo)
Ayub Wahyudi (DKI Jakarta)
Asrelawandi (Riau)
Sunarya (West Java)
Yosep (West Irian Jaya)

65kg
Ade Iman (West Java)
Bunadi (Riau)
Hance Poyoh (East Java)
Eduardus (Papua)
Ramadhan (DKI Jakarta)

70kg
M. Heny (Central Java)
Iwan (West Sumatera)
Yulius (Papua)
Arifin (DKI Jakarta)
M. Edeng (West Java)

75kg
Syafrizaldi (Bengkulu)
Taat Pribadi (Central Java)
Putu Mardika (DKI Jakarta)
Lilik Rusdianto (North Sumatera)
Edwind (West Kalimantan)

80kg
Agi Mulyono (South Kalimantan)
M. Kuat (Central Java)
Rahmat (West Java)
Fuadi (DKI Jakarta)
Mozid (Gorontalo)

85kg
Roy (Bangka Belitung)
Muhammad (East Java)
Hendra Zaim (East Kalimantan)
Yudhistira (Yogyakarta)
Ricky Samsuri (DKI Jakarta)

85+kg
Ade Rai (DKI Jakarta)
Leonidas (East Java)
Sandhi Yudha (Aceh)
Dody Lesmana (West Java)
Rahmat (Banten)