{"id":217,"date":"2009-01-12T22:06:06","date_gmt":"2009-01-13T06:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/2009\/01\/12\/2009-ironman-competitor-list-as-of-jan-12th\/"},"modified":"2009-01-12T22:06:06","modified_gmt":"2009-01-13T06:06:06","slug":"2009-ironman-competitor-list-as-of-jan-12th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/2009\/01\/2009-ironman-competitor-list-as-of-jan-12th\/","title":{"rendered":"2009 Ironman: Competitor List as of Jan 12th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monday morning, January 12th, and an updated competitor list came out, as the start of the 2009 IFBB Men&#8217;s bodybuilding season will begin 12 days, on January 24th, at the Los Angeles Convention Center Hall. As I have heard, there will be more added to the list as the deadline to enter approaches, but here is who we have competing at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>Eddie Abbew (England)<br \/>\nOliver Adzievski (Sweden)<br \/>\nMohammad Bannout (Lebanon)<br \/>\nThomas Bengali (Italy)<br \/>\nAD Cherry (USA)<br \/>\nConstantinos Demetriou (Australia)<br \/>\nMark Dugdale (USA)<br \/>\nMoe El Moussawi (New Zealand)<br \/>\nOleg Emelyanov (Russia)<br \/>\nAiman Faour (Lebanon)<br \/>\nDeShaun Grimez (USA)<br \/>\nAhmad Haidar (Lebanon)<br \/>\nMarcus Haley (USA)<br \/>\nMartin Kjellstrom (Sweden)<br \/>\nMarc LaVoie (Canada)<br \/>\nDon Long (USA)<br \/>\nDaron Lytle (USA)<br \/>\nCaesar Mendible (Venezuela)<br \/>\nEvgeny Mishin (Russia)<br \/>\nRonny Rockel (Germany)<br \/>\nSilvio Samuel (Spain)<br \/>\nDaniele Seccarecci (Italy)<br \/>\nHidetada Yamagishi Japan)<\/p>\n<p>The biggest name to pull out is Gustavo Badell, who was rumored to have said that he pulled out due to family reasons&#8230; but with the Arnold Classic six weeks after the Ironman, will he be ready for that show?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday morning, January 12th, and an updated competitor list came out, as the start of the 2009 IFBB Men&#8217;s bodybuilding season will begin 12 days, on January 24th, at the Los Angeles Convention Center Hall. As I have heard, there will be more added to the list as the deadline to enter approaches, but here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}