SIGMUND KLEIN IN BODYBUILDING HISTORY.

WORLD BODYBUILDING ENCYCLOPEDIA.

Today the W.F.F. – W.B.B.F. (World Fitness Federation, World Body Building Federation)  International unites 138 Country – Members and organizes nearly 60 annual Amateur and Professional International Events World Wide. Looking from the juridical point of view the W.F.F. – W.B.B.F. International is no doubt the Real World Bodybuilding Leader.

Crowning it‘s 50 years of  International Bodybuilding activities, the W.F.F. – W.B.B.F.  works on the Unique Global International Bodybuilding Project -  the „World Bodybuilding  Encyclopedia“ («Энциклопедия всемирного культуризма», “Pasaulio kultūrizmo enciklopedija”).

SIGMUND KLEIN IN BODYBUILDING HISTORY.

International World society knew very well a famous Prussia athlete SIGMUND KLEIN (1902-1987 m.). in 1924 SIGMUND KLEIN came to America and became the owner of LOUIS ATTILA‘S (Louis Attila, real name Ludwig Durlacher, 1844-1924 m.) gym. At that gym were made lots of photos for the WEIDER brother‘s magazines as they had no gym of their own. In 1969 in New York was organized a great fiesta for SIGMUND KLEIN. Major of New York JOHN LYNCEY and the 41-st Vice President of the USA NELSON ALDRICH ROCKFELLER (1908-1979) took part at the event.

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WORLD BODYBUILDING ENCYCLOPEDIA.

SIX U.S.S.R. MINISTERS OF SPORT SHOOTED.

WORLD BODYBUILDING ENCYCLOPEDIA.

Today the W.F.F. – W.B.B.F. (World Fitness Federation, World Body Building Federation)  International unites 138 Country – Members and organizes nearly 60 annual Amateur and Professional International Events World Wide. Looking from the juridical point of view the W.F.F. – W.B.B.F. International is no doubt the Real World Bodybuilding Leader.

Crowning it‘s 50 years of  International Bodybuilding activities, the W.F.F. – W.B.B.F.  works on the Unique Global International Bodybuilding Project -  the „World Bodybuilding  Encyclopedia“ («Энциклопедия всемирного культуризма», “Pasaulio kultūrizmo enciklopedija”).

SIX U.S.S.R. MINISTERS OF SPORT SHOOTED.

Since 1923 to 1938 six U.S.S.R. Ministers of Sport were sentenced to death and shooted: NIKOLAJ SEMASHKO (Николай Семашко, leading sport 1923-1926), VASILIJ MICHAILOV (Василий Михайлов, 1926-1930), NIKOLAJ ANTIPOV (Николай Антипов, 1930-1934), VASILIJ MANCEV (Василий Манцев, 1934-1936),  IVAN CHARČENKO (Иван Харченко, 1936-1937), ALEKSANDR ZELIKOV (Александр Зеликов, 1937-1938).

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WORLD BODYBUILDING HISTORY.

FIRST WORLD BODYBUILDING EMPIRE.

BERNARR MACFADDEN.

WORLD BODYBUILDING ENCYCLOPEDIA.

Today the W.F.F. – W.B.B.F. (World Fitness Federation, World Body Building Federation)  International unites 138 Country – Members and organizes nearly 60 annual Amateur and Professional International Events World Wide. Looking from the juridical point of view the W.F.F. – W.B.B.F. International is no doubt the Real World Bodybuilding Leader.

Crowning it‘s 50 years of  International Bodybuilding activities, the W.F.F. – W.B.B.F.  works on the Unique Global International Bodybuilding Project -  the „World Bodybuilding  Encyclopedia“ («Энциклопедия всемирного культуризма», “Pasaulio kultūrizmo enciklopedija”).

BERNARR MACFADDEN.

In the beginning of the last century American BERNARR MACFADDEN (Bernard Adolphus McFadden, 1868 – 1955 m.) created first Bodybuiling Empire in America. Specialists of sport call him  the „Father of Physical Culture“. BERNARR MACFADDEN used to say: „If You don‘t have Your health, You don‘s have anything“.

BERNARR MACFADDEN participated in various ellections including one of the President of the USA. Among his close friends were the USA President FRANKLIN D. ROOSVELT, GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, Italian dictator BENITO MUSSOLINI.

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ROYAL FAMILIES IN BODYBUILDING HISTORY.

WORLD BODYBUILDING ENCYCLOPEDIA.

Today the W.F.F. – W.B.B.F. (World Fitness Federation, World Body Building Federation)  International unites 138 Country – Members and organizes nearly 60 annual Amateur and Professional International Events World Wide. Looking from the juridical point of view the W.F.F. – W.B.B.F. International is no doubt the Real World Bodybuilding Leader.

Crowning it‘s 50 years of  International Bodybuilding activities, the W.F.F. – W.B.B.F.  works on the Unique Global International Bodybuilding Project -  the „World Bodybuilding  Encyclopedia“ («Энциклопедия всемирного культуризма», “Pasaulio kultūrizmo enciklopedija”).

ROYAL FAMILIES IN BODYBUILDING HISTORY.

International sport sočiety knows very well abour one of the bodybuilding pioneers British EUGENE SANDOW (real name is Fridrich Wilhelm Muller, 1867-1925 m.). EUGENE SANDOW trained many World known persons. Among them was  the King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India GEORGE V-th (Geroge Frederick Ernest Albert, 1865-1936 m.).

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ROYAL FAMILIES IN BODYBUILDING.

WORLD BODYBUILDING ENCYCLOPEDIA.

Today the W.F.F. – W.B.B.F. (World Fitness Federation, World Body Building Federation)  International unites 138 Country – Members and organizes nearly 60 annual Amateur and Professional International Events World Wide. Looking from the juridical point of view the W.F.F. – W.B.B.F. International is no doubt the Real World Bodybuilding Leader.

Crowning it‘s 50 years of  International Bodybuilding activities, the W.F.F. – W.B.B.F.  works on the Unique Global International Bodybuilding Project -  the „World Bodybuilding  Encyclopedia“ («Энциклопедия всемирного культуризма», “Pasaulio kultūrizmo enciklopedija”).

ROYAL FAMILIES IN BODYBUILDING.

One of Bodybuilding pioneers LOUIS ATTILA (real name is Ludwig Durlacher, 1844-1924 m.) trained various Worldwide famous persons. Among them were members of Royal Families. One of them was CROWN PRINCE FREDERIK (Cristian Frederik Carl Georg Valdemar Axel, 1872-1957 m.) who later became  the KING HAAKON OF NORWAY (Haakon VII).

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WORLD BODYBUILDING HISTORY.

1989. DOPING. FIRST OFFICIAL U.S.S.R. BODYBUILDING CHAMPIONSHIP.

THE BEGINNING.

From 1973 bodybuilding sport was prohibited and prosecuted in the Socialist World. In 1987 the Official U.S.S.R. Bodybuilding Federation was established. The federation was recognized by the U.S.S.R. Sport Ministry (Goskomsport; Госкомспорт С.С.С.Р.). In 1988 the first official recognized U.S.S.R. Bodybuilding Cup was held in Leningrad City (today St. Peterburg). The Over All Champion was Lithuanian VIKTORAS JUCYS. All winners had to participate at the World Championship in Australia. Unfortunatelly due to the intrigues of the General Secretary of the U.S.S.R. Bodybuilding Federation ROMANAS KALINAUSKAS Lithuanian bodybuilders VIKTORAS JUCYS and SAULIUS MISEVICHUS (Saulius Misevicius) could not go and participate at the World Championship.

DOPING. 1989 U.S.S.R. BODYBUILDING CHAMPIONSHIP. HOW TO BECOME A CHAMPION.

The 1989 U.S.S.R. bodybuilding championship in St. Peterburg was full of intrugues too. The winners had right to be included into the U.S.S.R. bodybuilding team to participate at the World Championship in Paris (France). Also they had to receive respectfull names of the „U.S.S.R. Sport Master“ („Мастер спорта С.С.С.Р“.). Suddenly a day before the contest bodybuilders received definite rumour information about the coming doping control. Most of the best bodybuilders decided not to participate at the event.

Today it is evident that this was organized by a number of organizers and trainers who spread the rumours about the doping. But why everybody believed them. Especially when the President of the U.S.S.R. bodybuilding federation was VASILIJ CAIKOVSKIJ (Василий Чайковский) who was a high official at the U.S.S.R. Doping Control Institutions. When many best bodybuilders did not participated their athletes took high places and became the champions. Only after the competition everybody heard that there will be no doping control at all.

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LEARN WORLD BODYBUILDING HISTORY.

THE ONLY ONE CLASSIC BODYBUILDING SCHOOL IN ALL SOCIALIST COUNTRIES.

WORLD BODYBUILDING HEROES. CESLAV TAMULEVICH.

Today we can not speak about bodybuilding in the Socialist Countries not mentioning CESLAV TAMULEVICH. For twenty years his personal influence to bodybuilding was evident.

CESLAV TAMULEVICH was one of bodybuilding pioneers in the Socialist World. He was a talanted trainer who training other athletes before giving them suggestions  did many experiments on himself.  Also he participated himself at nearly all first U.S.S.R. bodybuilding competitions. CESLAV TAMULEVICH was the founder and the Chairman of the famous „Vilnius Bodybuilding School“ (1965-1995) which was for many years the U.S.S.R. bodybuilding leader. The school gave direct and real way to develop bodybuilding in the U.S.S.R..

When we speak about any classic bodybuilding school in any of the Socialist Countries we mean that „Vilnius Bodybuilding School“ was the only one of that kind. We may try to mention the „Sandow“ bodybuilding school in Chechoslovakian Marianske Lazne led by LUDEK NOSEK until now. But this shool had no great international level bodybuilders except ALOIS PEK.

In 1974 at the U.S.S.R. Contest „Georg Tenno Memorial“ („Georgo Tenno Memorialas“, «Мемориал Георга Тенно») representatives of the „Vilnius Bodybuilding School“ took all first places. The contest was organized by the „Soul of Estonia Bodybuilding“ INNAR MARDO (Иннар Мардо). At that competition only Estonian OLEV ANNUS won this hight category against Russian monster VLADIMIR DUBININ (Владимир Дубинин). Then the Over All Champion became a student of CESLAV TAMULEVICH legendary PRANAS MURAUSKAS (Пранас Мураускас). World bodybuilding magazines wrote about this many times, including themagazines of the Weider brothers.

 CESLAV TAMULEVICH trained many famous U.S.S.R. bodybuilders and most of them participated at the historical „Amber Prix International“ (1968-2020) „Gintarinis prizas“, „Янтарный приз») bodybuilding contest.

INTERNATIONAL AWARD REACHED IT‘S HEROE.

On September 28, 2020 at the Headquarters of the Parliament Republic Lithuania for the social work done CESLAV TAMULEVICH was announced about the Great International Award. Right after it the delegates of the W.F.F. – W.B.B.F. International Federation (World Fitness federation, World Body Building Federation) left the Parliament to present CESLAV TAMULEVICH the International Honour Silver Medal. For many years on CESLAV TAMULEVICH  lives and is under the doctor‘s care in a small city hospital.

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WORLD BODYBUILDING HISTORY.

DIRTY BODYBUILDING IN ESTONIA.

WORLD BODYBUILDING ENCYCLOPEDIA.

Today the W.F.F. – W.B.B.F. (World Fitness Federation, World Body Building Federation)  International unites 138 Country – Members and organizes nearly 60 annual Amateur and Professional International Events World Wide. Looking from the juridical point of view the W.F.F. – W.B.B.F. International is no doubt the Real World Bodybuilding Leader.

Crowning it‘s 50 years of  International Bodybuilding activities, the W.F.F. – W.B.B.F.  works on the Unique Global International Bodybuilding Project -  the „World Bodybuilding  Encyclopedia“ («Энциклопедия всемирного культуризма», “Pasaulio kultūrizmo enciklopedija”).

There will be four books of the Encyclopedia. The first book will cover period of time from the old times to 1973. The work on the Encyclopedia goes on.

DIRTY BODYBUILDING IN ESTONIA.

INNAR MARDO (1945-2002; Inaras Mardo, Иннар Мардо)  was the most important Estonia bodybuilding persons ever. Several days we were studying the thirty years lasting correspondence between the President of the W.F.F. – W.B.B.F. International DSc. EDMUNDAS DAUBARAS (Др. Эдмундас Даубарас) and INNAR MARDO. INNAR MARDO was and still is the unique historical Estonia bodybuilding leader and the real soul of bodybuilding in Estonia. Twenty years ago INNAR MARDO presented to DSc. EDMUNDAS DAUBARAS historical documents on the Estonia International contest „Georg Tenno Memorial“ („Georgo Tenno Memorialas“, «Мемориал Георга Тенно»).

HAVING A WISH DOES NOT MEAN YOU CAN DO IT.

Multiple letters of INNAR MARDO tell us about many unknown and forgotten facts and stories. We are surprised of the inner powewr of INNAR MARDO when his bodybuilders betrayed him and when many Estonian organizers treated him very badly. The reason is clear – they envyed him and his talent so much. We would like to underline that for several years best bodybuilders of the U.S.S.R. and Socialist countries were pupils of INNAR MARDO Estonians OLEV ANNUS  and INDREK OTSUS. Both bodybuilders were winners of the most important International U.S.S.R. competitions – the „Amber Prix International“ („Gintarinis prizas“, «Янтарный приз», is still running, 1968-2020) and the „Georg Tenno Memorial“ (organized in 1971-1979). Also under the guidance of INNAR MARDO both bodybuilders won several International competitions in various Socialist countries.

Think of this - who are those bodybuilders and organizers without INNAR MARDO? In some cases the enemies of INNAR MARDO were successful and INNAR MARDO had to leave the National Estonia bodybuilding federation. By the way, Lithuanians were not very happy of the strong Estonia bodybuilding and helped the enemies of INNAR MARDO in their dirty works. The Lithuanians were led by ROMANAS KALINAUSKAS and some official from Kaunas city. Especially big fight against IONNAR MARDO was after the tenth „Georg Tenno Memorial“ But after this no one Estonia bodybuilding organizer ever reached the highness of the work done by INNAR MARDO. The level and inside power was very low of them.

In the “World Bodybuilding Encyclopedia” year after year we will speak about the activities of those above mentioned “heroes”. It is a pity that at the end of his life INNAR MARDO had no enough power to reach the previous hights of the glory of Estonia bodybuilding. The glory that was created by him – INNAR MARDO.

About these details we will speak in the second book of the Encyclopedia.

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WORLD BODYBUILDING ENCYCLOPEDIA.

IN 1963 FIRST INTERNATIONAL BODYBUILDING ORGANIZATION WAS ESTABLISHED IN SOCIALIST WORLD.

In 1963 under direct influence American BOB HOFFMAN  and British OSCAR STATE and the initiative of the F.I.H.C. (F.I.H., Federation Internationale Halterophile, later F.I.H.C., Federation Internationale Halterophile et Culturisme, later I.W.F., International Weightlifting Federation) in the U.S.S.R. was established first International Bodybuilding Organization (Общественный комитет атлетической гимнастики С.С.С.Р.). of the Socialist World. The U.S.S.R. Sport Ministry (Goskomsport, Госкомспорт С.С.С.Р.) appointed a known Russia weightlifter ROMAN MOROZ (Роман Мороз) as the President of this Organization. Tnen the U.S.S.R. was not ready to face this innovation and the new organization worked only formally.

Real bodybuilding started in 1968 when the another new Organization was created in Lithuania. Again the formal Chairman of the new Organization was the above mentioned ROMAN MOROZ. He was the man to connect bodybuilders with the Monistry of Sport of the U.S.S.R.. in real bodybuilding sport in the U.S.S.R. was governed by other people. They were Russian GENADIJ BALDIN (Геннадий Балдин) and two Lithuanians VALERIJ KORESHKOV  (Валерий Корешков) and VYTAUTAS ZUMERIS.

That were the requirements of the „communist times and the communist regime“.

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WORLD BODYBUILDING HISTORY.

THEODOR SIEBERT.

WORLD BODYBUILDING ENCYCLOPEDIA.

Today the W.F.F. – W.B.B.F. (World Fitness Federation, World Body Building Federation)  International unites 138 Country – Members and organizes nearly 60 annual Amateur and Professional International Events World Wide. Looking from the juridical point of view the W.F.F. – W.B.B.F. International is no doubt the Real World Bodybuilding Leader.

Crowning it‘s 50 years of  International Bodybuilding activities, the W.F.F. – W.B.B.F.  works on the Unique Global International Bodybuilding Project -  the „World Bodybuilding  Encyclopedia“ («Энциклопедия всемирного культуризма», “Pasaulio kultūrizmo enciklopedija”).

There will be four books of the Encyclopedia. The first book will cover period of time from the old times to 1973. The work on the Encyclopedia goes on.

THEODOR SIEBERT.

When we speak about the World bodybuilding history of the ninetienth century, we should not forget to mention Austrian THEODOR SIEBERT (full name is Adolf Eduard Theodor Friedrich Siebert, 1866-1961 m.). THEODOR SIEBERT founded his personal way of the training systems fot athletes and strongmen and he published several books about this. In 1901 he opened a popular gym for power sports. His close friends were a Russian VLADISLAV KRAJEVSKIJ  (Владислав Краевский, 1841-1901 m.)  and a German who lived in Estonia GEORG HACKENSCHMIDT (Георг Гаккеншмидт, 1878-1968 m.). World sport history specialist DAVID CHAPMAN speaks that THEODOR SIEBERT was writing in the German language so his works were not translated into English and are not known in English speaking countries.

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