DUŠKO MADŽAROVIĆ
IBFF President & Founder
Duško is proud to be the Founder and President of INTERNATIONAL BODYBUILDING & FITNESS FEDERATION (IBFF). Trough the support of Slovenian Bodybuilding & Fitness Association and encouragement of other like minded individuals also great athletes from France, Italy, Serbia and Croatia. He began an organization committed to support bodybuilding and fitness worldwide.
Dusko Madzarovic is also General Director of IBFF since 2010, after having gained professional executive experience at a national and international level in both sport and business. A University of Ljubljana ( Slovenia ) – Traffic technology and transport logistics graduate, he started his career in the California Gym Koper. Passionate about sport since his youth, Dusko was a competitive athlete in football, swimming and rowing, after that he started successful career in bodybuilding ( 1987 – 2007 ). Duško has been involved in competitive bodybuilding for over 35 years as a competitor, coach, judge, president and organizer of sports events, winning various international and world titles in different federations. He has over 35 years of experiance in fitness industry us a bodybuilding and personal fitness trainer in his California Gym in Koper.
Duško has appeared in numerous publications worldwide and TV programs on Slovenian national television, Serbian, Montenegro's, Argentine and Croatian televisions. Being athlete him selves, he knows what it takes to compete and will host events that put the competitors first.
There are a lot of federations out there, IBFF, NABBA, NAC, WBFF, IFBB, WABBA, IBFA….....etc. Each federation will have their own set of rules regarding what they require of their athletes. You may find you like competing at contests affiliated with a particular federation more than another. Some federations’ contests are more prevalent in particular areas of the country or the world.
IBFF federation is officially registrated federation and it exists from the year of 2009.
It only consists of competitors and ex competitors and that is why its main and first obligation is to give competitors back their respect. Federations are created for competitors - not the other way around and that is what most of international associations has forgot.
In IBFF we don't have any sport related companies to support us or secret agenda that would bring us money. We are volunteers and fans of bodybuilding sport and we do our work for free. Fair judging is one of the main and most important goals and we can't say that about many other organizations.
More than 50 countries from all continents are members of IBFF and as long as you respect the rules and statute of IBFF that applies to everyone with no exceptions - membership is for free.
To organize competitions with fair judging and with all the respect that competitors deserve is basic rule of IBFF. Our athletes can compete in all federations and it never happens that they would be limited or punished for doing that. That is the basic right of every competitor.
The path to becoming a Pro is also a little different from federation to federation. If you have aspirations of becoming a pro, your goal would be to qualify and/or compete in shows that are awarding pro cards. What contests do you have to win to get a IBFF pro card?
In order to be an IBFF pro you need to earn a IBFF pro card, and in order to do that you need to win the IBFF international contests :
IBFF European Championship or IBFF Universe Championship or IBFF World Championship ( winners of categories : BB small, BB midle, BB tall, BB over 40 and winner of over all athletic-fitness ).
So when you become a professional Bodybuilder which means you have received a pro card from the IBFF then you have earned the right to compete in IBFF PRO competitions.
The IBFF is here to promote a healthy lifestyle and does not condone the use of performing enhancing substances.
COMPETITION BY COMPETITORS – FOR COMPETITORS
Many sacrifices are involved in preparing for shows and they will make sure you leave any IBFF event feeling it was all worth it.
IBFF DUTIES:
- To promote and develop the sport of bodybuilding and fitness for male and female athletes trough competitions;
- To promote and advocate fair play, ethics and integrity amongst all competitors, athletes, models, trainers, organizers, promoters, sponsors and managers involved in our sport.
- To cooperate with the national and international federations, gyms, fitness – bodybuilding – sports organizations and to coordinate their activities;
- To combat the use of drugs in sports;
- To maintain the authority, control, and coordination of the sport of bodybuilding amongst its members;
- To promote and encourage bodybuilding, fitness and figure IBFF competitions and events
- To promote closer links between its members and all other sports federations;
- To coordinate and protect common interests;
- To establish the technical rules for the smooth functioning of competitions in accordance with the Constitution and Judges Guide Book.
To promote, coordinate and develop the "IBFF FIT KIDS DIVISION" , "IBFF PRO DIVISION" , »IBFF POWER LIFTING DIVISION«, »IBFF ARM WRESTLING DIVISION«, »IBFF POLE SPORT DIVISION«.
FOUNDERS :
IBFF SLOVENIA
Duško Madzarović
CALIFORNIA FITNESS
Manžan 13a, Koper, Slovenija
Web: www.california-fitness.net
Dejan Madzarović
FITMANIA FITNESS
Kopališko nabrežje 5, Koper
Web: http://fitmania.net
Ernest Podrecca
KAG FIT TEAM
Kobarid
Mitja Humar
ŠD TRIATLON MOČI
Pod lazami 23, Šempeter pri Gorici
Matko Verhovnik
ŠAHT FITNESS
Velenje
IBFF ITALIA
Ricky Ramazzina
CALIFORNIA PALESTRE
Via Bellosguardo 21, Trieste
Mauro Zotti
UNIVERSE GYM
Via nazionale 9/a
San Lorenzo Isontino ( GO )
Filippo Alfani
Palestra " La nuova Canadese & c. " di Filippo Alfani
via Scira 4 - 74121 Taranto
IBFF CROATIA
Lari Perusco
“L-GYM” FITNES KLUB
Sv. Bartul 23a, Labin
IBFF FRANCE
Eric Orrao
UNIVERSE GYM
19 Rue Loredan Larchey, Menton
IBFF BRAZIL
Juliao Castelo
SPORTS AUTHORITY ACADEMIA
Av. Oceanica No.2400 2 andar Ondina Hotel
Salvador-Bahia
IBFF ENGLAND
Rob Reinaldo
ULTRA BODIES GYM
24 Brodway PE1 1RS,Peterborough, England,UK
web: www.robreinaldo.com
IBFF USA
Kelvin Fountano
World Bodybuilding Fitness Association
WEB : www.worldbfa.com
IBFF BOLGARIA
Yanislav Tachev
Bulgarian National Fitness Federation
web : http://bnff-wff.com/index_en.htm
IBFF ARGENTINA
Paulo Francisco Arrúa
President of the association of Corrientes gyms
Asociacion de Gimnasios de Corrientes (AGC)
Sheridan No 389 CP 3400 Corrientes Argentina
IBFF MONTENEGRO
KDT Bodybuilding i Fitness HERKUL Cetinje
manager : Aleksandar saša Rakočević
Sankova Gomila 37
81250 Cetinje
Montenegro
Crna Gora
Direktor
FC SportsArt Montenegro
Vasa Raičkovića 2B
Podgorica, Crna Gora
IBFF ISRAEL
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president IBFF Srbija:Saša Dimitrijević
Relax Gym, Čuprija, Srbija
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