Name: Bettina Salomone
Born: January 6
Sign: Capricorn
Weight: Contest - 160 lbs, Offseason - 175-180 lbs
Height: 5'7"
Resides: Palm Springs, CA
Marital Status: Married
Occupation: Optician
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Brown
Interests: Traveling, spending time with my man and our friends, going to the theater and movies, reading, enjoying time off from work by relaxing at our pool and jacuzzi, hiking, our boxer dog, volunteering for boxer rescue, the list goes on.... The main thing is to find a healthy balance between "real life" and the sport, and I am finally able to enjoy both with the perfect partner by my side.
Before I got addicted to the iron I was into competitive horseback riding. I started lifting weights about 15 years ago. The trigger was a visit to a local gym in the town I worked as an optician back in Germany. I had to kill two hours of lunch break every day and boy did I kill those two hours !
The second I touched the weights I was hooked, it somehow felt like the right thing to do, something I had always wanted. Soon I started to train with the gym owner, I liked that she was serious about training and the fact that she was a competitive bodybuilder encouraged me even more. I wanted to be on stage one day myself, insane thought at that time, sure but what the hell, it was a goal ;-) ...
Before I started competing successfully (as you can read in my competition history) I went to my first show two years after I started training and that didn't really work that great lol, I placed fifth out of five and wished I was invisible that day haha...
To make a long story short, successful competing started in 1997, I started out with NABBA Germany and took part in great competitions allover Europe, e.g. Spain and Lithuania (ok ok the latter wasn't the greatest experience in terms of traveling and accommodations lol), memories I wouldn't want to miss.
2009: California State Championships 3rd Place HW
2009: Los Angeles Championships 2nd place Heavyweight
2007: Northern Cup Bodybuilding Championships - 1st place Bodybuilding
2007: NPC USA - 6th place Heavyweights
2006: Nationals Bodybuilding & Fitness Championships - 8th place Heavyweight
2005: NPC Jr.Nationals - 1st place Heavyweight
2005: NPC New England Championships - 1st place Heavyweight and Overall
2004: IFBB German Championships - 2nd place Heavyweight
2004: IFBB Qualifier for the German Championships - 1st place Heavyweight and Overall
2003: NPC New England/New Hampshire Tournament of Champions - 1st place Heavyweight and Overall
2003: NPC New England/New Hampshire - 1st place Heavyweight and Overall
2002: Musclemania World Championships - 1st place Heavyweight
1998: NABBA World Championships - 5th place
1998: NABBA European Championships - 1st place and Overall
1998: NABBA Night of Champions (qualifier for the European Championships) - 1st place
1997: NABBA German Championships - 1st place
1997: NABBA qualifier for the NABBA German Championships - 1st place
1997: NABBA European Championships - 1st place Heavyweight
1996: NABBA German Championships - 1st place Heavyweight
