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Bodybuilding at the 1989 World Games

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionDec 6, 2024
Entity authorityQ98078148 ↗
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Medal events in both men's (4) and women's (2) bodybuilding were included in the 1989 World Games. The 1989 Games were the third World Games, an international quadrennial multi-sport event, and were held in Karlsruhe, West Germany. Point scoring was typically based on mandatory posing (front, back and side poses) and optional posing determined by the athlete. Bodybuilders from eleven nations won medals.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bodybuilding at the 1989 World Games” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.