Twelve athletes will compete for the championship.
Final up to date on February eleventh, 2025
The 2025 Arnold Classic Males’s Physique contest will likely be part of the 2025 Arnold Sports activities Competition in Columbus, OH on Saturday, March 1, 2025. Twelve athletes had been invited to compete in the tenth version of this contest.
The champion will earn qualification to the 2025 Men’s Physique Olympia, if not already certified.
Schedule
The pre-judging spherical will happen on the Arnold Expo on the Higher Columbus Conference Middle, beginning at 11 a.m. EST. The finals happen that night within the Battelle Grand Ballroom, the place the champion will obtain the trophy from promoter Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Arnold Traditional Males’s Physique Roster
- Erin Banks
- Ali Bilal
- Alessandro Cavagnola
- Vitor Chaves
- Rhyan Clark
- Emmanuel Costa
- Guilherme Gualbarto
- Jason Huynh
- Diogo Montenegro
- Rafael Oliveira
- Sidy Pouye
- Dmytro Voievodchuk
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Athletes to Watch
This lineup is headlined by the 2 most up-to-date titleholders, Diogo Montenegro and Erin Banks. They may face a who’s who of prime contenders vying for the title.
Diogo Montenegro
2024 champion Diogo Montenegro was a contender for the 2024 Males’s Physique Olympia, however withdrew before taking the stage. Montenegro should qualify for the 2025 Olympia and might earn that spot and defend his Arnold title on the identical time.
Erin Banks
Banks is probably going the largest problem to Montenegro’s need to go back-to-back. Banks, who gained the 2022 and 2023 Arnold titles skipped the 2024 contest.
Banks is already certified for the 2025 Olympia as a former Olympia champion however nonetheless seeks to construct his legacy. If he wins in Columbus, he would be the second athlete to win three Arnold Traditional Males’s Physique titles. The one athlete who has to date achieved that feat is Andre Ferguson, who three-peated from 2018 to 2020.
Ali Bilal
Ali Bilal was the Males’s Physique breakout star of 2024. He gained Pittsburgh Professional and New York Professional titles and completed second to Ryan Terry on the 2024 Olympia. Notably, Bilal completed one rank forward of Banks in that contest.
Bilal is locked for the 2025 Olympia, due to that silver-medal efficiency in 2024, however seeks his first Arnold title whereas driving his wave of momentum.
Darkish Horses
Different athletes more likely to be within the first callout subsequent to the three athletes talked about above embrace 2024 Arnold Traditional Males’s Physique bronze medalist Vitor Chaves, Sidy Pouye, and Alessandro Cavagnola, who gained three professional exhibits in 2024.
Learn how to Watch
Followers who need to journey to Columbus to observe the present dwell should purchase tickets to the Expo and Saturday night time finals on the Arnold Sports activities web site. There will likely be a free dwell stream accessible to observe the motion dwell from house. Particulars of that livestream haven’t been introduced on the time of this text’s publication.
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