The 2024 Tampa Professional was his closing contest.
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IFBB Professional League Males’s Open bodybuilder Phil Clahar has introduced his retirement from competitors, efficient instantly, after his closing contest, the 2024 Tampa Professional in Tampa, FL, on Saturday, Aug. 3, 2024. He tied for sixteenth place.
Clahar introduced on his Instagram web page on Sunday, Aug. 4, 2024, which may be seen beneath:
“Thanks to each fan, firm, competitor, health club, household, shopper, pal, and many others., that has supported me over my novice and professional profession….it’s meant greater than you’ll ever know,” stated Clahar. “I’ve traveled to faraway locations, made associates everywhere in the world, and had among the highest highs and lowest lows, however bodybuilding has been an infinite a part of my life for thus lengthy, and I’ll always remember these instances.”
Phil Clahar’s Bodybuilding Profession
Clahar’s professional profession lasted solely seven years. According to Muscle Reminiscence, Clahar gained the 2009 IFBB Central American and Caribbean Championships novice present as a super-heavyweight. It could be 9 years earlier than he entered the professional ranks.
Clahar made his professional debut in 2018 on the Tampa Professional, the place he positioned 14th. One 12 months later, he completed ninth on the identical present and tenth on the 2019 Toronto Professional.
Clahar’s rise to bodybuilding stardom started in 2020. He began that 12 months ending tenth on the New York Professional and positioned eighth on the Chicago Professional. He rose to fourth within the Tampa Professional.
Clahar competed in different professional exhibits within the subsequent two seasons and scored his first professional win on the 2023 Orlando Professional, which certified him for that 12 months’s Mr. Olympia. He tied for sixteenth place in his solely Olympia look. He ranked third on the 2023 Masters Olympia.
“The Jamaican Tank” had competed twice in 2024, ending thirteenth within the Chicago Professional and sixteenth in Tampa. He competed in 16 professional exhibits in seven seasons earlier than calling it a profession at age 48.
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