Photograph credit score: Samson Dauda/Instagram
Nigerian-born, UK-based bodybuilder Samson Dauda was topped Mr. Olympia final weekend on the 2024 Olympia Weekend Finals held on the Resorts World Theater in Las Vegas, USA.
The Mr. Olympia title is awarded to the winner of the annual Olympia Health & Efficiency Weekend Open Division skilled males’s bodybuilding competitors, a world competitors that draws the world’s prime athletes.
Samson competes within the males’s open bodybuilding division of the IFBB Professional League and started his journey to the UK after transferring to the UK as a teen. Initially centered on rugby, his rugby teammates and fitness center homeowners launched him to bodybuilding, Chris Jones. After being impressed Phil Heath’s After successful the 2013 Mr. Olympia competitors, Samson turned his consideration to bodybuilding and competed in his first competitors in April 2014.
Through the years, Samson’s standing rose steadily. In 2023, he received the Arnold Basic in the US and completed third in that yr’s Mr. Olympia competitors. This yr, he received the last word prize – surpassing the bodybuilding icon Hadi Chupan and Derek Lunsford Win the 2024 Mr. Olympia and Folks’s Championship titles.
His victory additionally earned him a $600,000 prize – the biggest prize in Mr. Olympia historical past. He’s additionally the primary Nigerian to attain this unimaginable feat.
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