Lanah Evers

Lanah Evers was born in Leidschendam, in Holland On the 28th of November 1983 . When she was five years old her family moved to Nieuwe Tonge on Goeree-Overflakkee, which is a small island of the province South-Holland. There are a lot of small towns over there, including one might been known: Middelharnis, which is the town where Miss Olympia Juliette Bergmann lives. Actually the reason of them moving to Goeree-Overflakkee was that her father was the chief editor of the Ironman Magazine, which was owned by Juliette and her husband.

Like she mentioned before, she had been doing judo for quite a while, but at the time she started her studies at the Erasmus University she switched to doing boxing. she wanted to compete in boxing as well, so she did her first competition in 2003, which she won. she become the Dutch champion of Southern Holland. In 2004 she even won the national title in the category under 63 kilograms, shortly after which she got selected for the Dutch women boxing team.

At the beginning of 2005 she decided she wanted to switch sports again: she started training specifically for fitness competitions. she had been wanting to do that for quite a while. her interest in this sport started in she teenage years, because now and then she father took her along to bodybuilding competitions where her father was a judge. Seeing the girls on stage made her wonder if she would also be able to get in that kind of shape, since she had been involved in sports and weightlifting from a relatively young age.

her first competition was a great success for her. At the end of 2005 she became the Dutch National overall champion of the natural federation, called the “YBF”. Two weeks later she competed at two other competitions: one in Brussels (Belgium) and another one in Holland again. At the international competition in Belgium she became fourth and in Holland she became second.