The previous Ms. Physique Olympia will contend for a distinct title in 2025.
Final up to date on January eighth, 2025
Two-time Girls’s Physique Olympia champion Shanique Grant intends to return to aggressive bodybuilding to compete within the Wellness division.
Wellness debut 2025.
—Shanique Grant
Grant made her intentions to finish her retirement from the stage recognized in an Instagram put up on Jan. 6, 2025, which may be seen beneath:
Earlier than her retirement on Dec. 31, 2020, the then-25-year-old Grant accomplished her seventh professional season and received the Girls’s Physique Olympia in 2018 and 2019. She positioned second to Sarah Villegas on the 2020 Girls’s Physique Olympia, which was Grant’s ultimate contest.
The Wellness division was in its early phases and had not been held on the Olympia throughout Grant’s profession. It was launched to the Olympia in 2021 and has develop into some of the well-liked divisions in bodybuilding.
Wellness is kind of the distinction from Girls’s Physique. There’s a better want for very good conditioning, definition, and full symmetry for Girls’s Physique. Wellness opponents should nonetheless be lean however have extra dimension and improvement within the legs and glutes to succeed.
Grant is the second former Olympia champion to announce a change in divisions. Three-time Health Olympia winner Missy Truscott introduced her plans to compete in Determine for the 2025 season just a few days earlier than Grant’s announcement.
Grant is in an analogous state of affairs to Truscott concerning Olympia qualification. Grant has lifetime eligibility to enter the Olympia in her unique division however should qualify by successful a professional present to enter the 2025 Olympia in one other class. The one different path to the Olympia stage is a particular invite from the Olympia promoters.
Grant has not shared which professional present she intends to compete in for her return. The primary Wellness present of the 2025 season is the 2025 Wellness Worldwide on the Arnold Basic in Columbus, OH, from Feb. 28 by means of March 1, 2025. Grant shouldn’t be on the roster for that present, which is invitational solely.
The subsequent present after that’s the 2025 Sampson Showdown Professional, which will likely be held on March 29, 2025, in Las Vegas, NV. In response to her Instagram bio, Grant resides in Las Vegas.
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