The 2024 Japan Pro occurred on Sunday, Nov. 24, 2024 in Tokyo, Japan. This show served as a 2025 Olympia Weekend qualifying event for the 212, Men’s Physique, and Bikini divisions. The winners would be eligible to compete at the 2025 Olympia in their respective divisions. If the winner was already qualified for the 2025 Olympia, ten no other qualification would be awarded.
Kerrith Bajjo (212), Corey Morris (Men’s Physique), and Uyanga Bataa (Bikini) were crowned champions.
2024 Japan Pro Results
The results for all three contests are below, courtesy of the IFBB Pro League:
212 Bodybuilding
- Kerrith Bajjo (USA)
- Sung Yeop Jang (South Korea)
- Aphichai Wandee (Thailand)
- Sho Hirokawa (Japan)
- David Henry (USA)
- En Zhou (China)
- Kentaro Kuramochi (Japan)
- Hoyeon Jang (South Korea)
- Asmawi Zolkifli (Malaysia)
- Hongeun Kim (South Korea)
- Hiroshi Abe (Japan)
- Katsutoshi Matsusaka (Japan)
- Xi Qing Mao (China)
Men’s Physique
- Corey Morris (USA)
- Joshua Eng (Malaysia)
- Gymray Yu (Taiwan)
- Kent Iwakami (Japan)
- Takumi Ishikawa (Japan)
- Ryohei Okada (Japan)
- Hong Son (Vietnam)
- Yiming Wei (China)
- Jackson Peos (Australia)
- Ash Abdollahi (Australia)
- Jimmy Chen (Taiwan)
- Rintaro Kiyokawa (Japan)
- Kazuma Oishi (Japan)
- Junxin Liu (China)
- Natsuki Takaramura (Japan)
Tied for 16th
- Penny Cheung (Hong Kong)
- Ilya Kvashnin (Russia)
- Chung Jen Liu (Taiwan)
- Suppachai Phonklad (Thailand)
Bikini
- Uyanga Bataa (Mongolia)
- Mengru Zhang (China)
- Xinyi Chen (China)
- Yurika Noda (USA)
- Ekaterina Opekunova (Russia)
- Amanda Lee (Singapore)
- Miharu Kurachi (Japan)
- Jule Schwabe (Germany)
- Jess Feeney (Ireland)
- Chanyu Xu (China)
- Vanessa Inazu (Japan)
- Maiko Otsuka (Japan)
- Si Yu (China)
- Elizaveta Shmukler (Japan)
- Amanda Jayden Lam (Hong Kong)
Tied for 16th
- Hyuna Choi (South Korea)
- Tomo Hashimoto (Japan)
- Asaka Kimura (Japan)
- Kaoru Kira (Japan)
- Alexandra Kolla (USA)
- Natalie Koursari (Greece)
- Ekaterina Mikriukova (Russia)
- Kana Suzuki (Japan)
- Ho Yi Melanie Pak (Hong Kong)
- Kathryn Cavanagh (Australia)
- Asaka Koyano (Japan)
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212 Bodybuilding Winner — Kerrity Bajjo
Bajjo was coming off a fourth-place finish at the 2024 212 Olympia in Las Vegas, NV, on Oct. 11, 2024, won by Keone Pearson. Bajjo was the big favorite going into this show and was dominant from the moment he walked onstage.
Men’s Physique Winner — Corey Morris
Morris already qualified for the 2025 Olympia by winning the 2024 China DMS Changsha Pro one week ago. Like Bajjo, Morris was the favorite and made good on those predictions.
Bikini Winner — Uyanga Bataa
This was Bataa’s second career pro win, and she claimed a perfect score from the judges. She previously won the 2023 District of Taiwan Pro. She competed at the 2024 Bikini Olympia but missed the top 15.
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