{"product_id":"1970-ifbb-mr-europe-1971-ifbb-mr-universe","title":"1970 IFBB Mr. Europe \u0026 1971 IFBB Mr. Universe","description":"\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cimg alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"303\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0998\/8646\/5333\/files\/V-151DVDLG.jpg?v=1777940639\" width=\"450\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size:16px;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bold-title\"\u003e1970 IFBB Mr. Europe \u0026amp; 1971 IFBB Mr. Universe\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tThe 1970 IFBB Mr. Europe segment runs approximately 20 minutes. The 1971 IFBB Mr. Universe segment runs approximately 45 minutes. Music soundtrack has been added. Photos by Benno Dahmen and courtesy the IFBB.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size:16px;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bold-title\"\u003e1970 IFBB Mr. Europe\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tThis classic contest was held in Essen, Germany in the magnificent and historic Saalbau Concert Hall, scene of the triumph of Arnold over Sergio at the 1972 Mr. Olympia, and present host city of FIBO. It was the highest standard Mr. Europe contest I have ever witnessed, boasting a couple of competitors in Franco Columbu and Serge Nubret making it worthy of an Olympia stage.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size:16px;\"\u003eIn the Short Class, Franco out-muscled his main rival, Europe’s Mr. Abdominals, Pierre Vandensteen from Belgium. The fantastic, rock hard and symmetrical physique of Giuseppe Deiana of Holland could only make 3rd place. He was a Mr. Universe class winner in 1971. Of note was Adolf Ziegner who was known for his massive arms at such a short height. Sort of an Austrian Lee Priest of his day!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size:16px;\"\u003eNext the Medium Class. It was a well deserved victory for local hero, the shredded Gunter Heinlein over the more massive physique of Janko Rudman of Sweden.  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size:16px;\"\u003eIn the Tall Class there was no doubt that Serge Nubret had the class victory as soon as he walked out on stage, he was so outstanding. Ripped as ever and with his classic lines, great abs and wonderful posing routine and stage presence.  His nearest rival was the tall Austrian Karl Kainrath over his more massive countryman Harald Gobetz.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size:16px;\"\u003eThe 3 class winners are finally shown fighting it out in the posedown for the overall Mr. Europe title.  That went to FRANCO COLUMBU by a very narrow margin over a magnificent Serge Nubret.   \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size:16px;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bold-title\"\u003eOverall Winner : Franco Columbu\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"bold-title\"\u003eThe 1971 IFBB Mr. Universe\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan id=\"1206304679084E\" style=\"display: none\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size:16px;\"\u003eSerge Nubret staged this event at the huge Palais De La Mutualite theatre in Paris, France. There were 53 competitors from 37 countries making this one of the most broadly represented event in years. The battled it out in front of a madly cheering sell-out crowd of 3000, many of whom had come to see Arnold, Sergio and Franco who were appearing later on the programme (and not part of this DVD). *Sergio's posing will appear in the SERGIO OLIVA \"THE MYTH\" SUPER TAPE DVD in 2008 when editing has been completed. Arnold's posing will be included in a new DVD yet to be produced.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size:16px;\"\u003eIn the short class it was a classic battle between Renato Bertagna of Italy – a smaller (white) version of Sergio Oliva’s physique, and the super symmetrical and hewn out of granite physique of Italian-born Dutchman Giuseppe Deiana.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size:16px;\"\u003eIn the medium class it was an amazing 3-way battle between Ed Corney of USA - at his very peak, Al Beckles of England – a legend with much more than the most amazing the biceps in the world, and the ripped and rock-hard slab of muscular beef from Turkey – Ahmet Enunlu. Another very popular with the fans was Serge Jacobs of Belgium.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size:16px;\"\u003eFinally in the tall class it was another battle between the handsome, ripped and elegant physique of Karl Bloemer of Germany, charismatic fellow German Helmut Riedmeier. It seemed to me that Helmut found more favour with the judges than Mike Katz of USA whose placing greatly upset the fans. Vic Downs from Canada was another who was extremely popular with the fans.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size:16px;\"\u003eIt was controversy time when the results were announced for the Medium Class. Pandemonium broke loose with booing, jeering and absolute crowd rage. It was the most forceful display of audience crowd anger I have subsequently seen in my 44 years of attending physique contests. This was triggered by Al Beckles being called in 2nd place with Enunlu announced as the winner. The rage continued unabated and it appeared that things may even turn ugly.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size:16px;\"\u003eThe judges wisely announced that Al Beckles would be added to the 3 class winners – Enunlu, Bloemer and Deiana for the overall judging and posedown. Not surprisingly Beckles won the overall title of IFBB Mr. Universe for 1971 in a very fair and correct verdict with Enunlu graciously handing over his class winner’s trophy to Beckles in a very nice touch of sportsmanship. Runner up overall was Bloemer, with Deiana 3rd and Enunlu 4th. Later on in the programme there was more controversy, but that is another story.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bold-title\"\u003eThe 1971 IFBB Mr. Universe Results\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"bold-title\"\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size:16px;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eTall Class:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size:16px;\"\u003e1   Karl Bloemer (Germany)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size:16px;\"\u003e2   Helmut Riedmeier  (Germany\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size:16px;\"\u003e3   Mike Katz (United States)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size:16px;\"\u003e4   Francois Labrador (France)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size:16px;\"\u003e5   Vic Downs (Canada)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size:16px;\"\u003e6   Abdul El Guindi (Egypt)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"bold-title\"\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size:16px;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eMedium Class:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size:16px;\"\u003e1   Albert Beckles (England)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size:16px;\"\u003e2   Ahmet Enünlü (Turkey)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size:16px;\"\u003e3   Ed Corney (United States)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size:16px;\"\u003e4   Abbas Al Hindawi (Iraq)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size:16px;\"\u003e5   Serge Jacobs (Belgium)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size:16px;\"\u003e6   Khaled Baynakalar (Lebanon)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"bold-title\"\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size:16px;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eShort Class:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size:16px;\"\u003e1   Giuseppe Deiana (Netherlands)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size:16px;\"\u003e2   Renato Bertagna (Italy)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size:16px;\"\u003e3   Hubert Plumanns (Belgium)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size:16px;\"\u003e4   Talib Shehab (Iraq)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size:16px;\"\u003e5   Tony Lamouche (France)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size:16px;\"\u003e6   Atan Parolay (Turkey)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size:16px;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eOverall Winner : Albert Beckles\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tRunning time: 65 mins\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bold-title\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bold-title\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bold-title\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bold-title\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bold-title\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bold-title\"\u003e* Available in NTSC DVD Only (Region Free\u003c\/span\u003e)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t* THIS DVD WILL PLAY ON ANY DUAL SYSTEM NTSC \/ PAL DVD PLAYER AND TV. 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