Look back at NPC 2021 and 2022 Calendar.

New Ifbb professionals

According to information on www.ifbbpro.com, out of whole 1263 pro cards won, record breaking 161 bodybuilders won the professional card in 2021 at competitions organized under of NPC and NPC Worldwide. However, need to point out that lots of those have been awarded in the masters categories, I have counted fifty one to be exact with some of these from such categories as 60+,70+ or even 80+ those guys aren’t winning Mr Olympia in their lifetime I can tell you that (almost all won in states).

Other interesting fact is that some of these athletes previously held professional status in other federations, Ifbb Elite for example. (would be interesting to compare how many of these have been awarder last year particularly here in Europe).

Important is that more and more athletes from outside the USA succeeded in gaining Manion’s professional card and pro shows outside states are getting better and better.

Then some ended their career

We have to sadly mention reports the deaths of the two active bodybuilders George Peterson, Shawn Rhoden and Alena Kosinova, also we had few retirement announcement’s, for starters we have popular Canadian Fouad Abiad who was to do one last show at Toronto Pro but unfortunately it will no longer happen, Nicolas Vullioud, Guy Cisternino and Luis Santa decided to hang the trunks.

NPC WORLDWIDE CALENDAR FOR 2022

So far we have 239 events in the NPC Worldwide (regionals and Pro Qualifiers) calendar for 2022 that have been confirmed (as of date 9th of January 2022).