{"id":325850,"date":"2020-07-03T06:02:39","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T20:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=325850"},"modified":"2020-07-03T06:02:39","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T20:02:39","slug":"tudela-wins-2020-golds-gym-international-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/tudela-wins-2020-golds-gym-international-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Tudela wins 2020 Gold\u2019s Gym International Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_325859\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-325859\" style=\"width: 487px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/golds-pix-1.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-325859\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Patrick Tudela Jr.\u2019s transformation earned him a victory in the 2020 Gold\u2019s Gym International Challenge. (Contributed Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Less than a week after ruling the Gold\u2019s Gym Saipan Challenge, Patrick Tudela Jr. came out victorious anew after winning the 2020 Gold\u2019s Gym International Challenge.<\/p>\n<p>Tudela prevailed in the roster of winners of the transformation challenge among Gold\u2019s Gym\u2019s franchises, which are spread across the world. He defeated Russia\u2019s Denis Batakov, Mexico\u2019s Paddy Rivas, and Australian\u2019s Steven Cooks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs mentioned, Gold\u2019s Gym Saipan\u2019s overall winners (male\/female) were submitted to the 2020 Gold\u2019s Gym International Challenge. This is the first time they have run the International component to the challenge and the results are out. We are so proud,\u201d Gold\u2019s Gym general manager Tyce Mister said.<\/p>\n<p>Tudela was among the 49 individuals who participated in the Gold\u2019s Gym Saipan Challenge, a 12-week transformation journey and finished on top of the 26 who completed the challenge.  He led the group which lost over 315 lbs Participants averaged 12.2 lbs per person loss and 11.5 lbs of that was fat body mass. The group\u2019s estimated decrease in percentage body fat averaged a 4.2% drop.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in the women\u2019s division, Gold\u2019s Gym Saipan Challenge champion Venue Raguine was ranked third in the international category. The Netherland\u2019s Liduina Verbeek and Russia\u2019s Victoria Korobochka took the first and second place honors, while Mexico\u2019s Angelica Gonzales placed fourth. <strong>(Saipan Tribune)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Less than a week after ruling the Gold\u2019s Gym Saipan Challenge, Patrick Tudela Jr. came&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":325859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-325850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}