Tonya Knight, a feminine bodybuilding star from the Nineteen Eighties and Nineteen Nineties has died on February 7, 2023 following a most cancers prognosis.
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Ladies’s Bodybuilding sensation Tonya Knight has died at 56 following a battle with most cancers. Information of her passing on February 7, 2023, was first made obtainable by SNBC13.
Competing as knowledgeable in Ladies’s Bodybuilding, Tonya Knight established herself as a frontrunner with wonderful conditioning, considerate posing routines, and balanced proportions. Throughout her adorned tenure, she challenged royalty within the division, like Anja Schreiner and six-time Ms. Olympia Cory Everson (the one feminine bodybuilder to ever retire undefeated)
Tonya Knight is a Ms. Worldwide champion, which on the time was the second-most prestigious Ladies’s Bodybuilding competitors behind solely the Mr. Olympia (from 1989 onwards, the Ms. Worldwide contest was part of the annual Arnold Sports activities Competition). She additionally made an look on the Olympia stage.
Tonya Knight returned to the Ms. Worldwide stage in 1991 and received. This could function the ultimate victory of her storied profession. Her final two bodybuilding appearances got here on the 1992 Ms. Worldwide in sixth place in addition to a third-place end on the 1993 Jan Tana Traditional.
After listening to of the information, eight-time Mr. Olympia Lee Haney provided his finest needs.
“Sorry to listen to concerning the passing of our expensive Tonya. She made muscle tissue a factor of Magnificence 🙏🏽❤️” wrote Lee Haney.
Along with her contributions to the game, Tonya appeared on the American Gladiators TV present with common bodybuilder Mike O’Hearn. She performed the character Gold from 1989-1992 till she left on account of a shoulder damage.
Tonya Knight’s Competitors Historical past
- 1984 NPC USA Championship – eleventh (LHW)
- 1985 NPC USA Championship – sixth (HW)
- 1986 NPC USA Championship – 4th (HW)
- 1988 Professional World Championship – fifth
- 1988 IFBB Ms. Olympia – 4th (later disqualified)
- 1989 Ms. Worldwide – 1st (later disqualified)
- 1991 IFBB Grand Prix Italy – 1st
- 1991 Ms. Worldwide – 1st
- 1992 Ms. Worldwide – sixth
- 1993 Jan Tana Traditional – third
Tonya is the most recent bodybuilder to lose her life to most cancers. Males’s Open and Traditional Physique competitor Lee Banks not too long ago succumbed to a cancerous carcinoid tumor in his intestines as nicely. He died at 51 years previous; his spouse revealed the information just some days in the past.
God Bless and Hold TK, At all times. Amen ❤️🙏❤️😎😇
