Davis is Micronesia region VP

Commonwealth Bodybuilding Federation president John H. Davis will be Micronesia’s voice to the Executive Council of the South Pacific Bodybuilding Federation.

Commonwealth Bodybuilding Federation president John Davis, standing seventh from left, joins other members of the South Pacific Bodybuilding Federation Congress held simultaneously with the XV Pacific Games in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, in July. Davis was elected as vice president for Micronesia. (Contributed Photo)

Davis was elected vice president of the Micronesia region during the 2015 SPBBF congress, which was simultaneously held with the XV Pacific Games in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea in July.

Davis represented the CNMI in the congress where the Commonwealth was welcomed as one of two new members of the SPBBF. American Samoa was the other new country affiliated with the SPBBF.

The CNMI now joins the 22 other member countries under SPBBF, which reaffirmed its affiliation with the World Bodybuilding & Physique Sports Federation.

Davis, early this year, organized CBBF with other bodybuilding enthusiasts and was accepted as a member of the Northern Marianas Sports Association, the CNMI sports’ governing body.

“My task is to promote bodybuilding in Micronesia. As soon as the power situation normalizes, I’m going to buckle down to work,” Davis told Saipan Tribune. “I already have a three-year program in mind and I hope to implement that in promoting the sport in the region.”

Representatives of the member federations that attended the Congress also voted unanimously in establishing a new Executive Council after SPBBF president Joe Daniel, who is also a former Chairman of Judges, resigned.

One of the SPBBF Executive Council’s tasks is to help in the grassroots development program of each member federation. Davis added that SPBBF is prioritizing the development and promotion of the sport in the Pacific after the successful staging of bodybuilding competition in the XV Pacific Games.

Meanwhile, former SPBBF executive vice president Pierre Frogier of New Caledonia was elected to replace Daniel with the former’s countryman Roland Chodey, who previously held the chairmanship of the group’s technical committee, selected as the new secretary general.

Talaiasi Nau of Tonga, the host of the 2019 Pacific Games, (executive vice president); Papua New Guinea’s Cosmas Hannette (vice president for Melanesia); and former EVP Christian Pothier of Tahitie (vice president for Polynesia) are the other SPBBF elected officials. New Zealand’s Philip Hope is the vice president for Oceania, representing the entire region in the WPBF.