Indian Military tank commander from Lucknow shines in world bodybuilding championship | Lucknow Information

LUCKNOW: Main Savio Henriques (38), an Military man born and introduced up in Lucknow, has completed fourth within the 14th World Bodybuilding and Physique Sports activities Championships 2023, which concluded at Wonju Metropolis, South Korea, on Saturday.
This was Henriques’s third championship participation. He completed fourth within the South Asian Championship in 2019 and World Championship in 2021.
Posted in Hyderabad with 2nd Lancers (Gardner’s Horse), a extremely embellished armoured regiment of the Indian Military, since 2019, Henriques, who’s the commander of a Russian constructed tank, is being skilled by two-time Asian champion and Ironman from Manipur, Moirangthem Robi Meitei, a chief petty officer within the Indian Navy.
Henriques, an alumnus of the Lucknow Christian School and a resident of Indiranagar, stated: “I hoped to complete among the many high three, however sadly couldn’t. Taking the rostrum place for India is a dream for me.”
Over 350 bodybuilders from 40 nations participated within the occasion.
Malaysian bodybuilder Mike Mahen gained the championship beneath 167cm males’s athletic physique class whereas Jamts Galbadrakh of Mongolia and Abdulla Ahsan of Maldives completed third. Whole 15 bodybuilders had contested beneath this class.
Talking about his journey in bodybuilding, the 70kg armored officer stated, “As a young person, I used to be mocked for my skinny physique, however in twenty years I cast my physique to acquire Goliathesque muscularity and symmetry, which is a key aspect in bodybuilding.”
“It’s true that in bodybuilding competitions efficiency enhancing medicine (PED) are used, but it surely’s executed in a really strict scientific regime. Just a few months earlier than the championship, the PED course begins, but it surely’s the person’s bodily exercise and weight-reduction plan which is extra necessary for bodybuilding. PED significance is secondary. The younger athletes or era who’ve an curiosity in bodybuilding, shouldn’t use PED with out correct steering,” added Henriques.
Congratulating Henriques on X, the Southern Command of the Indian Military posted on its official account: “Main Savio Henriques, a logo of resilience and power, shines at 14th World Bodybuilding Championship in South Korea by securing 4th place. A proud second for the Indian Military and a testomony to the prowess of the Indian Armed Forces (sic).”
Henriques is married to his childhood pal Apurva and the couple have a teenage son.