Abies Nosa won a silver medal and a cheque for $4,000 at the $200,000 IFBB Elite Pro World Champs last weekend.

It rounded off a superb season for the British men's physique star, who also won two pro shows, including the Arnold Classic Europe, and earned $11,500.

Abies missed out on the $10,000 first place prize to defending champion Dmytro Horobets, who remains unbeaten in the IFBB Elite Pro ranks.

“I have to keep up and work harder to be number one next year,” he said.

British women’s physique star Ade Bishop.

Ade Bishop also collected a cheque for $1,000 for finishing fifth in women's physique, to go with the silver medal she won last year in China.

Fellow UK competitors Lisa-Marie Graham (bikini fitness) and Mahmoud Elmawardy (men's physique) didn't place but looked superb on the highest stage of all.

The big shock of the weekend came in bodybuilding, where defending champion Michal Krizanek could only manage fourth. The $15,000 winner's cheque instead went to Szymon Lada, of Poland.

Krizanek is the biggest beast in the jungle but he wasn't at his sharpest, and Lada has the kind of complete look that gets rewarded in the IFBB.

Brazilian wellness queen Angela Borges successfully retained her number one slot but the multi-titled Yana Kuznetsova could only imagine fifth in bikini fitness, which was won by Finnish beauty Melina Keltaniemi. Adela Ondrejovicova repeated her success in bodyfitness.

Bodyfitness world champion Adela Ondrejovicova.

2019 IFBB Elite Pro World Champions

Bodybuilding Open
Szymon Lada, Poland

Classic Physique
Marcel Marcin Przyszlak, Poland

Men’s Physique
Dmytro Horobets, Ukraine

Bikini Fitness
Melina Keltaniemi, Finland

Wellness Fitness
Angela Borges, Brazil

Fitness
Evelina Tistelgren, Finland

Bodyfitness
Adela Ondrejovicova, Slovakia

Women’s Physique
Michaela Kohutova, Czech Republic

UK WINS SILVER AT IFBB ELITE PRO WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS