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• 2003 North Island U/18 - 1st
• 2004 North Island U/21 - 1st
• 2004 New Zealand Junior Champ - 1st
• 2005 U/21 Australasian Champ - 1st
• 2005 NZ Junior Champ - 1st
• 2006 CNI Open O/90kg - 1st
• 2006 NZ Couples - 1^st [w/fiance Sesa Tomuli]
• 2008 NZ Elite Show - 6th [out of 25 competitors]
• 2008 CNI NZFBB Open Mens O/90kg - 1st
• 2008 CNI - Overall Champ
• 2008 NZFBB Nationals Open Mens O/90kg - 1st

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Grant Pieterse was featured in a newspaper article from the Waikato Times of New Zealand. Portion of the article below:

“Grant Pieterse isn’t hard to spot in the gym. At 114 kilograms and with barely a drop of fat on him, he is an impressive figure.

But a very firm handshake, partnered with a beaming smile, shows this 23-year-old isn’t as scary as you first think. And if that smile isn’t enough to calm your nerves, the cute pink Supre bag that he keeps his gym gear in will be.

Pieterse, New Zealand and Australasian body building champion, recently became one of the youngest bodybuilders ever to be offered his professional card, making him him one of just three active professionals in New Zealand. “It’s the same as a young guy becoming an All Black. All they want to do is get to the top of their sport and that’s the same with me. It means everything to me.”

His first professional event is in Melbourne at the International Federation of Body Building Australian Grand Prix in March. As the competition draws nearer, Pieterse’s training becomes more demanding.

A strict sleeping, eating and exercise regime will include 12 gruelling weights sessions and 84 meals each week.

By show time, Pieterse will have dropped from 114kg to 102kg and his body fat now at 7.5 per cent will be down to about 2.5-3 per cent.

He is not worried by the fact that New Zealand is thousands of kilometres away from the sport’s power base in the US. “What does it matter? The only way you get to the top is by working hard and wanting it and no one can help you with that,” a clearly motivated Pieterse says.”

Click here to read the full article on Stuff.co.oz.

[Credits: Article by Matt Richens, Photo by Donna Paget]

• Bodybuilding idols: Flex Wheeler and Kevin Levrone
• Favorite colour: blue
• Favorite food: Butter chicken with Rotti bread.
• Pets - 2 cats named Snowy and Sum Sum
• Hobbies – ‘laxing out’, watching movies.
• Star sign - Aries
• Bodybuilding idols: Flex Wheeler and Kevin Levrone