Culturismo Digital/Rosa Lopez. Tenerife (Spain).
The athlete Celeste González is the newest IFBB Figure Pro and also the first spanish competitor who reach this status.
Starting from classic ballet, she came to fitness as one of the big promises in the spanish scene. After years of hard workout and diets, and after she had a serious injury in her knee which even need a complicated surgery, she achieve to qualify to compete in the 2003 IFBB Spanish National Championships in which she got the victory. Just a few days after Celeste was invited by IFBB Spain to the 2003 IFBB Women's World Bodybuilding, Fitness & Figure Amateur Championships, but she didn't qualify for finals. At this moment she understood that she needed to make some changes in her career and then she started to prepare her return but this time as a figure competitor.
On September 2004 the spanish athlete had been training with only one target in her mind: the 2004 IFBB Women's World Bodybuilding, Fitness & Figure Amateur Championships in which she got a fantastic second place in her first contest appareance as a figure athlete just behind the slovakian Lenka Chalupkova. Celeste really impressed us all with this place but just a few weeks later, she was the 2004 IFBB Spanish Nationals Figure absolute winner.
The following contest appareance had to wait until September 2005 at the 2005 IFBB Women's World Bodybuilding, Fitness & Figure Amateur Championships. Celeste Gonzalez had rebuild completely her physique to increase her chances to win but this time she slipped into third behind Lenka Chalupkova and Gabriela Kubesova, a former fitness athlete.
It was not a bad classification for Celeste but she had to wait a few weeks more to make a triumphant return from Catania (Italy) at the 2005 IFBB Mediterranean Championships where she achieved the definitive opportunity to get her IFBB Pro card which she got yesterday afternoon, after a few months doing paperwork, with the official notification from IFBB Spanish Headquarter confirming her pro card.
Now the spanish athlete is preparing for 2005 IFBB New York Pro Figure. She assume it'll be her first pro contest and nobody knows a word about her but she don't want to be a shooting star in the pro scene, she just wants to start a serious path to a solid career.
Contact Information:
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Celeste González / José Ángel Quintero
Gimnasio Olympia
c/ Elias Bacallado, s/n
38010 Ofra - Santa Cruz de Tenerife (España)
Teléfono: +34 922 644 104
http://www.celestegonzalez.comCeleste Gonzalez posing at 2005 IFBB Women's World Bodybuilding, Fitness & Figure Amateur Championships
Celeste Gonzalez posing at 2005 IFBB Mediterranean Championships
