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#7 IronLife Bodybuilding Tribute
Diana Dennis
by Ed Ouble, Admin at http://www.IronLife.com
Born: July 12, 1951
Web Site: www.dianadennis.com
Few women have sustained the unique combination of high-level contest success and the breathtaking presentation of physical artistry that Diana Dennis brought to the sport. Often admitting she was obsessed with winning; Diana counterbalanced that desire by preferring to call herself a performance artist who was also a bodybuilder.
This love of art and use of her own physique as the canvas set her apart from virtually all her contemporaries. Beginning her contest career in 1981, Dennis achieved much of her early fame in mixed-pairs competitions with her partner Kevin Lawrence: the duo won various titles, including the 1983 IFBB American Mixed-Pairs Championships and the 1985 IFBB World Amateur Mixed-Pairs crown.
Dennis won the overall title at the 1985 National Physique Committee Nationals and finally emerged as a true physique star in her own right. Over the next decade, Dennis competed in nine IFBB Ms. Olympia contests, finishing as high as third, but always in a high level of physical condition to go with her patented flare for the artistic.
As a pro, Dennis helped quench her desire for victories by capturing the 1986 IFBB Los Angeles Pro Grand Prix and the 1989 IFBB Pro World Championships. As a posing trendsetter throughout her career, Diana Dennis has continued to be popular and highly sought after as a guest poser nationally.
If legends are created by the memory they have to those who were fortunate enough to see them perform, Diana Dennis stands as a quintessential example of the word. Dennis once explained, "What I do comes from the heart. Passion for what I do is what drives me. My body is just the tool I use to display it." No one did better.
- Titles
1984 NPC Orange County (CA) Classic
1985 NPC Nationals
1986 IFBB Gran Prix Los Angeles
1986 IFBB Los Angeles Pro Championships
1989 IFBB World Pro Championships
- Magazine Covers
1984 Strength & Health
1985 Flex
1987 Muscle & Fitness
1987 Muscle Training Illustrated
1987 Women's Physique World
1989 Female Bodybuilding
1993 Women's Physique World
1994 Female Bodybuilding
(courtesy of ifbb.com & dianadennis.com)
Franco Columbu
by Ed Ouble, Admin at http://www.IronLife.com
Born: August 7, 1941 in Sardinia, Italy
Web Site: www.columbu.com
Born in Sardinia, Columbu first engaged in the sport of boxing. He met Arnold Schwarzenegger in Munich in 1965 and was henceforth forever stamped as Schwarzenegger's sidekick. In 1969, he followed the Oak to California and they became bodybuilding's main duo, but all friendship ceased whenever they were vying for the same title, although Columbu never beat Schwarzenegger.
Columbu won the 1970 IFBB Mr. Europe and IFBB Mr. Universe titles, the 1971 IFBB Mr. World, and later took the lightweight class at the 1974 and 1975 IFBB Mr. Olympia before winning the overall in 1976.
In 1977, Columbu broke his left leg while grappling with a refrigerator during the World's Strongest Man contest. However, this Sardinian refused to be canned - with phenomenal fortitude, he began a rehab program using his skills as a chiropractor and, after Schwarzenegger's 1980 IFBB Mr. Olympia comeback victory in Sydney, Columbu made his own comeback by taking the 1981 IFBB Mr. Olympia title.
It would be his final competition. Columbu zoomed fast-forward along the pioneer's path that Jack Delinger braved for shorter men in the 1940s. Known for his incredible deadlift ability and for the horizontal crease in his pecs, Columbu transferred the knockout punch he perfected in his boxing days in Italy to the dais of muscle and became a bodybuilder who, by anybody's standards, looked strong.
Columbu has appeared in movies, written some training books, has his own website, and is CEO of Eclipse Entertainment Group Inc.
- Titles
1970 IFBB Mr Europe
1970 IFBB Universe
1971 IFBB Mr World
1976 IFBB IFBB Mr Olympia
1981 IFBB IFBB Mr Olympia
- Magazine Covers
1969 Muscular Development
1970 Muscle Builder
1971 Muscle Builder
1971 Muscle Builder
1972 Muscle Builder
1973 Muscle Builder
1975 Muscle Builder
1977 Muscle Builder
1977 Muscle Builder
1978 Muscle Builder
1979 Muscle Up
1980 Muscle Digest
1981 Muscle Training Illustrated
1981 Muscle & Fitness
1982 Muscle & Fitness
1982 Muscle Digest
1982 Muscle Mag International
1982 IronMan
1982 Muscle World
1985 Muscle & Bodybuilder
1986 Muscular Development
1992 Flex
(courtesy of ifbb.com & columbu.com)
* Article by Ed Ouble, Admin at http://www.IronLife.com
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