Section 4: Players & Officials
Categories (Article 3)
World-level Men's Bodybuilding has nine weight categories and three height categories (Article 3.1).
- Bantamweight: up to and including 65 kg (Article 3.1.a)
- Lightweight: up to and including 70 kg (Article 3.1.b)
- Welterweight: up to and including 75 kg (Article 3.1.c)
- Light-Middleweight: up to and including 80 kg (Article 3.1.d)
- Middleweight: up to and including 85 kg (Article 3.1.e)
- Super-Middleweight: up to and including 90 kg (Article 3.1.f)
- Light-Heavyweight: up to and including 95 kg (Article 3.1.g)
- Heavyweight: up to and including 100 kg (Article 3.1.h)
- Super-Heavyweight: over 100 kg (Article 3.1.i)
Height categories are up to and including 170 cm, up to and including 178 cm, and over 178 cm. By agreement between the IFBB and the Organizer, one additional category may be opened (Article 3.1, Note 1).
Junior (Article 3.2): ages 15 to 20 and ages 21 to 23, each split into Lightweight (up to and including 75 kg) and Heavyweight (over 75 kg).
Master (Article 3.3): fourteen categories. Ages 40-44 and 45-49 are each split into Lightweight (up to and including 70 kg), Middleweight (up to and including 80 kg), Light-Heavyweight (up to and including 90 kg) and Heavyweight (over 90 kg). Ages 50-54 are split at 80 kg, and ages 55-59 at 75 kg. Ages 60-64 and 65 and over are each one open category.
Minimum entries (Article 3.4): except at World and Continental Championships, a category is run only with at least 3 athletes. At World and Continental Championships the minimum is 5. Where there are fewer, categories are combined wherever possible. Junior and Master age divisions are not combined.
Officials
- IFBB Chief Judge: decides whether the Elimination Round and Round 1 are held, forms the comparisons and may disqualify a competitor (Articles 7.2, 8.1.3, 6.4 and 10.1).
- Judges: each judge places every competitor individually. Scoring is defined for a panel of nine judges or fewer, and only the nine regular panel judges, not alternates, count in tie-breaks (Article 9.1).
- Statisticians: collect the judges' forms, transcribe the placings and calculate subscores and places (Article 9.1.2).
- Master of Ceremonies or Announcer: introduces competitors and announces the finalists' placings from 6th to 1st (Articles 8.1 and 15.1).
- Stage Director: finalists must follow the IFBB Chief Judge's or Stage Director's commands during the photographs after the awards (Article 15.1).