The 2022 Arnold Classic UK may have started with controversy after Arnold Schwarzenegger announced he wouldn’t attend. However, the fans in Birmingham were still excited to see bodybuilding competitions, and they got to witness nine of them on the weekend of Sept. 24-25, 2022.
After a full slate of competition, all nine winners have been announced, with all qualifying for the 2022 Olympia, scheduled for Dec. 16-18, 2022, in Las Vegas, NV. Here are the winners in each division. See below for complete results.
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The top four in the final callout of prejudging included Andrew Jacked, James Hollingshead, Patrick Johnson, and Martin Fitzwater. The judges rotated the men throughout the round but Jacked and Johnson were in the middle at the end.
The last callout featured from left to right in the finals — Marc Hector, Johnson, Hollingshead, Fitzwater, Jacked, and Jamie Christian. If one were to base the final standings off that comparison, it would appear that Hollingshead and Fitzwater were in the mix for the win since they were in the middle of the lineup. After the final callouts and posedown, here’s how the top three shook out:
As of this writing, the only results that had been posted were those that are below. BarBend will update the final standings as they are reported and confirmed.
Outside of the winners being qualified for the Olympia, the second through fifth place finishers will earn Tier 2 points towards the Olympia Qualification System.
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