Frank Tucker becomes Guyana’s first IFBB Int. Judge

Dec 21, 2016 Sports

By Franklin Wilson
Former President of the Guyana Body Building and Fitness Federation (GABBFF) Frank Tucker has become Guyana’s first International Federation of Bodybuilding and Fitness (IFBB) Internationally Accredited Judge.

Guyana’s Frank Tucker (extreme left) with other participants at the IFBB International Judges Seminar held in Curacao, Dec. 17-18, 2016.

Basking in the experience of being a practicing judge since the mid 1980’s, Tucker who is the current President of the Guyana Amateur Weightlifting Association (GAWA) and an active Powerlifter, successfully completed the IFBB International Judges examinations having attended a two-day seminar on the island of Curacao, December 17-18, last.
Speaking with Kaieteur Sport yesterday, an elated Tucker said that he is happy about his achievement which is history making for Guyana. He informed that there was about 10-15 persons who passed the exams and received their IFBB International Judges Card which now enables them to judge in every corner of the world up to the World Championships level.
Tucker, one of three local judges to hold the Continental Judges Card, the others being Franklyn Brisport and the late George Marshall, also informed that not everyone who attended the two-day seminar, which attracted over 50 persons, wrote the examinations.
”After the seminar, attendees were given the opportunity to write the IFBB International Judges exams and over 30 of us took the challenge with about 15 of us being successful. But not everyone who passed the exams were given International cards, you had to have a Continental Judges Card which is the level before this in order to get the world card.”
Tucker informed that he has been a Continental Judge since 2002 after succeeding at the exams which was held in Trinidad and Tobago; this card affords one the ability to judge anywhere in the Caribbean and the America’s.
Tucker, who paid his own way to Curacao, thanked the GABBFF for their blessings in allowing him to attend and has promised that he would be running off seminars that would benefit persons desirous of becoming new judges whilst also assisting those already practicing as judges.
Some of the countries that attended last weekend’s seminar were Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Aruba, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, Puerto Rico and Antigua and Barbuda.
The facilitator was Mr. Pawel Filleborn Msc. IFBB Judges Committee Chairman. Filleborn, a certified bodybuilding trainer is a powerlifting and bodybuilding multi-champion in his homeland of Poland.
He was a silver medalist at the 1986 European Championships; 1996 World Masters champion in the heavyweight category; President of the Polish Powerlifting and Bodybuilding Federation since 1998 and an IFBB International Judge for 25 years. The International Judges Seminar was hosted by the Curacao Bodybuilding and Fitness Federation.

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