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NPC Worldwide Ruhr Cup

April 4, 2026
NPCW

Years: 2026 2025
Divisions: WOMEN'S PHYSIQUE FIGURE WOMEN'S WELLNESS FIT MODEL MEN'S PHYSIQUE MEN'S CLASSIC PHYSIQUE MEN'S BODYBUILDING BIKINI

MEN'S BODYBUILDING

overall winner
Daniel Baden
super heavyweight
1 Ylber Mertezi 2 Dominic Schierholz 3 Tim Weiland 4 Dennis Bruns 5 Jeremy Wilms 6 Joshua Bischoff 7 Ole Belisar
heavyweight
1 Daniel Baden 2 Dennis Kirschner 3 Dominic Wiegand 4 Luca Neuenfeldt 5 Daniel Deinert 6 Steven Augustin 7 Milosh Zhivkovikj 8 Patrick Hormann
light heavyweight
1 Rudolf Schwenk 2 Robin Schwidder 3 Khalid Darwiche 4 Tim Ullrich 5 Marius Nysen 6 Michael Schmidt 7 Ali Akardere 8 Gerome Tillack
middleweight
1 Sebastian Bellin
novice
1 Dennis Bruns 2 Robin Schwidder 3 Tim Ullrich 4 Steven Augustin 5 Ole Belisar 6 Patrick Hormann 7 Gerome Tillack
masters 35+
1 Daniel Deinert 2 Khalid Darwiche 3 Ali Akardere
lightweight
1 Liam Neef

FIGURE

overall winner
Sarah Lauterfeld
novice
1 Sarah Lauterfeld 2 Nadine Gans-Cremer 3 Anna Lange-Bohmer 4 Maria Vechtomova
masters 35+
1 Jennifer Jakobi 2 Natalia Mozdir 3 Nadine Gans-Cremer 4 Anna Lange-Bohmer 5 Maria Vechtomova 6 Cindy Samadi
class a
1 Nadine Adler 2 Jennifer Jakobi 3 Rebecca Goekcen 4 Maria Vechtomova 5 Cindy Samadi
class b
1 Sarah Lauterfeld 2 Mascha Stutz 3 Anna Lange-Bohmer

BIKINI

overall winner
Marie-Claire Rautenberg-Metzger
novice
1 Laura Canosa 2 Linda Klugseder 3 Lea-Marie Beer 4 Leonie Hagemann 5 Pia Patzwahl 6 Merle Kraeft 7 Lina Seidler 8 Jennifer Mense 9 Chiara Doerr 10 Anna Schulte 11 Michelle Tscherwinski 12 Malin Schernikau 13 Lena Breitenbach 14 Caroline Bauer 15 Vanessa Strathoff 16 Marie Eckert 16 Nathalie Klein
masters 35+
1 Linda Klugseder 2 Lina Seidler 3 Sabrina Heinzen 4 Vanessa Strathoff 5 Jessica Reina Henkel
class a
1 Marie-Claire Rautenberg-Metzger 2 Laura Canosa 3 Lea-Marie Beer 4 Lea Setzer 5 Lou Hinrichs 6 Franca Jung 7 Chiara Doerr 8 Katharina Ruthard 9 Anna Schulte 10 Michelle Tscherwinski
class b
1 Emilie Kitscha 2 Linda Klugseder 3 Leonie Hagemann 4 Pia Patzwahl 5 Caroline Bauer 6 Marie Eckert 7 Nathalie Klein 8 Luisa Schipp
class c
1 Ekaterina Kovaleva 2 Merle Kraeft 3 Lina Seidler 4 Leonie Radtke 5 Jennifer Mense 6 Sabrina Heinzen 7 Katharina Sievers 8 Emely Wessner 9 Malin Schernikau 10 Lena Breitenbach 11 Vanessa Strathoff

MEN'S PHYSIQUE

overall winner
Nils Freudenberg
novice
1 Nils Freudenberg 2 Robin Duerselen 3 Abdellah Benhachoum 4 Nils Boll 5 Mohamad Alomari Alakili 6 Aymen Ben Salah 7 Mohammed Al-Isawi 8 Cem Oecalan 9 Julian Lagrave 10 Ameer Alajaty 11 Steve Schleicher
masters 35+
1 Andreas Kotte 2 Ameer Alajaty 3 Steve Schleicher 4 Torsten Gans 5 Przemyslaw Elstner
class a
1 Arthur Mensah 2 Mohamad Alhamidi 3 Mohammed Al-Isawi 4 Cem Oecalan 5 Ameer Alajaty
class b
1 Fatih Honold 2 Ameer Al-Ameri 3 Andreas Kotte 4 Ali Jaafar Farhat 5 Jeremia Koschick 6 Abdellah Benhachoum 7 Aymen Ben Salah 8 Ehsan Arbo 9 Przemyslaw Elstner
class c
1 Nils Freudenberg 2 Alex Asontia 3 Abdal Elah Yousef 4 Robin Duerselen 5 Can Gekik 6 Massaad Azimzadeh 7 Tevi Kossi 8 Nils Boll 9 Mohamad Alomari Alakili 10 Sebastian Melzer 11 Julian Lagrave 12 Steve Schleicher

MEN'S CLASSIC PHYSIQUE

overall winner
Nils Freudenberg
novice
1 Benedikt Rehm 2 Alessandro Schlichtenberg 3 Kevin Herlyn 4 Calvin Majchrzak 5 Luca Volpi 6 Jeremia Koschick 7 Quirin Schrammel 8 Tim Ullrich 9 Sebastian Leugers 10 Steve Schleicher 11 Julian Lagrave 12 Thaddaeus Block 13 Ramin Tahmasebiaghdaragh 14 Liam Neef 15 Patrick Hormann 16 Ruslan Khanin
masters 35+
1 Benedikt Rehm 2 Daniel Deinert 3 Andreas Kotte 4 Steve Schleicher 5 Ramin Tahmasebiaghdaragh 6 Torsten Gans
class a
1 Leydson Breno Albino Da Cunha Schuermann 2 Maxim Quiering 3 Abbas Pashang 4 Mohamad Alhamidi 5 Torsten Gans
class b
1 Tim Binder 2 Lars Langen 3 Jeremia Koschick 4 Quirin Schrammel 5 Andreas Kotte 6 Liam Neef 7 Ali Jaafar Farhat 8 Patrick Hormann
class c
1 Nils Freudenberg 2 Benedikt Rehm 3 Daniel Deinert 4 Marvin Luders 5 Marvin Muller 6 Jan Katzenmeier 7 Alessandro Schlichtenberg 8 Kevin Herlyn 9 Luca Volpi 10 Tim Ullrich 11 Sebastian Leugers 12 Steve Schleicher 13 Ramin Tahmasebiaghdaragh 14 Ruslan Khanin

WOMEN'S PHYSIQUE

open
1 Anika Zimmerningkat

WOMEN'S WELLNESS

open
1 Olga Zelikova 2 Jennifer Jakobi 3 Weronika Capuzo 4 Enikoe Safrany 5 Ida-Katharina Maiorano 6 Sarina Giesen

FIT MODEL

open
1 Annalena Kurtkowiak 2 Liv Janine Wolf 3 Ines Jebens 4 Leana Emrich 5 Kristin Tubbesing 6 Phoebe Jungmann 7 Katharina Quadnau 8 Louisa Hartwich 9 Laura Basner 10 Kaja Windprechtinger 11 Christin Rensmann
novice
1 Annalena Kurtkowiak 2 Leana Emrich 3 Phoebe Jungmann 4 Katharina Quadnau 5 Louisa Hartwich 6 Christin Rensmann
true novice
1 Liv Janine Wolf 2 Ines Jebens 3 Kristin Tubbesing 4 Katharina Quadnau 5 Louisa Hartwich 6 Kaja Windprechtinger
masters 35+
1 Christin Rensmann

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