Over 60 IFBB Pro League athletes from 13 nations gathered in Tokyo, Japan, to take part in the 2023 Tokyo Pro on the weekend of Aug. 26-27, 2023. The two-day show featured Classic Physique, Men’s Physique, and Bikini division competitions.
The winners of those contests were Shicheng Jin (Classic Physique), Joven Sagabain (Men’s Physique), and Yurika Shigemoto (Bikini). Those three champions qualified to compete in their respective divisions at the 2023 Olympia Weekend in Orlando, FL, on Nov. 2-5, 2023.
2023 Tokyo Pro Results
The full placings for all three contests are below:
Classic Physique
- Shicheng Jin (China)
- Shi Tian Wang (China)
- Ying Qi Lei (China)
- Li-Hsuan Liu (District of Taiwan)
- Chen Hui Lu (China)
- Hyun Seok Lee (Korea)
- Hang Sang Tae (Korea)
- Thomas Kunz (Switzerland)
- Kei Furukoshi (Japan)
- Shin Kodama (Japan)
- Ziqiang Wang (USA)
- Jorge Abraham Trejo Reyes (USA)
- Neng Chen (China)
- Ka Sing Lee (HKSAR)
- Shoichi Hirokawa (Japan)
Tied for 16th
- Takumi Amano (Japan)
- Brent Bumgarner (USA)
- Hanjin Choi (Korea)
- Shui Tian He (China)
- Kobi Ifrach (Israel)
- Nur Irfan (Singapore)
- Gi Hyun Kwon (Korea)
- Yongseung Lee (Korea)
- Wei Gang Li (China)
- Yasuhi Murakami (Japan)
- Eugene Nagashima (Japan)
- Dong O Ryu (Korea)
- Wang Siang (District of Taiwan)
- Takuya Sonobe (Japan)
- Naoto Takemoto (Japan)
- Kehang Wang (China)
- In Seong You (Korea)
- Jiangang Zhu (China)
Men’s Physique
- Joven Sagabain (Philippines)
- Shun Kaneko (Japan)
- Yukihiro Yuasa (Japan)
- Ryo Terashima (Japan)
- Shogo Sato (Japan)
- Tomohito “Jin” Koike (Japan)
- Joshua Eng Cherng Shin (Malaysia)
- Eric Neal (USA)
- Khrisna Purnama Putra (Indonesia)
- Edward Kato (Japan)
- XiaoLong Hong (China)
- Ryohei Okada (Japan)
- Carlos Asiedu Ocran (China)
- Nir Irfan (Singapore)
Tied for 15th
- Ka King Cheung (HKSAR)
- Nobuyuki Ichikwa (Japan)
- Liang Xuan Sun (China)
- Natsuki Takaramuka (Japan)
- Siang Wang (District of Taiwan)
Bikini
- Yurika Shigemoto (USA)
- Shuai Li (China)
- Heather Hei Man Kam (HKSAR)
- MinHee Baek (South Korea)
- Sol Han (Korea)
- Yume Kurokawa (Japan)
- Amanda Lee Jiawen (Singapore)
- Kana Suzuki (Japan)
- Jiaqi Wei (China)
- Noriko Ohara (Japan)
- Josephine Yeong (Malaysia)
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Classic Physique Winner — Shicheng Jin
According to NPC News Online, this was Jin’s first contest in four years. The judges gave him straight first-place votes for the gold and a trip to Orlando. His only pro appearance before this was the 2019 Romania Muscle Fest Pro, where he ranked second 24 hours after turning pro in the amateur contest. The Classic Physique contest for this show featured an all-Chinese podium.
Men’s Physique Winner — Joven Sagabain
Second-year pro Joven Sagabain scored his first pro career victory, and with it came a second-straight Olympia qualification. He was part of the 2022 Men’s Physique Olympia but placed outside the top 15. Second place went to Shun Kaneko, who was the highest-finishing Japanese athlete in any of the three contests.
Bikini Division Winner — Yurika Shigemoto
Yurika Shigemoto entered her fourth contest of the 2023 season and finally scored the win needed to qualify for the 2023 Bikini Olympia. This is her second consecutive Tokyo Pro win. Her best 2023 finish before this was a runner-up ranking at the 2023 Orchid Pro.
Featured image: @yurika_ifbbpro on Instagram
