Earlier this week, we told you about Mr. Belize -33 year old Rigo Vellos who excelled in the 2013 Hercules Olympia contest in Colchester London about a week ago. Vellos placed second in the international event, a significant achievement being that he is the first Belizean to compete at that level, alongside the best bodybuilders from North America and Europe. Today he stopped in at our studios to show off his prize and spoke about his experience at his first international competition.
Rigo Vellos - Mr Belize
"For my first international competition - the experience was great and unforgettable. It made me grow up in the sport of body building actually. I'm a more open-minded person when it comes to that sport. I came in second in my category which was the Tall Category. The tall category is anybody that has the height of 5'7" to 5'11", I was 5'10". I got a second place trophy in the category for the Hercules Olympia and I won some supplements along with it too. All the preparation started at my home town, Corozal Town. The training immediately after Mr. Belize last year - I started training and the opportunity came up in January and I agreed to do some fund raising and the people from Corozal helped me. I tried contacting some business places like BTL and they responded, places like CBC and they also helped me out. I did some BBQ sales and I had some private people that actually helped me to come up with the money which was like $8,000bzd."
Daniel Ortiz
"Rigo how much different is this in terms of participating for Mr. Belize and now to see that you've competed against other countries."
Rigo Vellos
"Yeah it was a totally different competition. The level is surely a higher level - not to take away anything from the Belize competition. The guys there are more prepared and we had competitors from Spain, France, Italy, Ukraine, Poland and Ireland and of course from England and I think we had somebody from Cuba also. It's a more worldwide thing, it's a more international level competition. The guys of course have more experience in that field of body building."
Over the next few months, Vellos will be training for the upcoming Mr. Belize Bodybuilding competition that will be held in Corozal Town in September.
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