Elena Shportun

Elena Shportun-Willemer, born in 1976 in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, Russia, is a professional female bodybuilder who mainly competes in European bodybuilding competitions. She is known in the bodybuilding world for an artistic style of posing that involves modern and belly dancing, classic lines and symmetry, often compared with those of female bodybuilders of the late 1970s and early 1980s such as Cory Everson and Anja Langer. Although she has had the opportunity to compete at the pro level she has opted to remain competitive at the amateur level and recently won the 2009 Arnold Amateur International Bodybuilding Championship. She began playing different sports at an early age, doing artistic gymnastics at seven for two years, and her mother then became her mentor and coach.