2015 Rising Phoenix World Championships
The 2015 Rising Phoenix World Championships was an IFBB Wings of Strength female professional bodybuilding competition and held in conjunction with the IFBB Texas Pro, the NPC Tim Gardner Texas Extravaganza, and NPC National. It was held on August 20, 2015 to August 22, 2015, at the Grand Hyatt, in San Antonio, Texas, United States.
Call outs
Prejudging
- 1st - Debi Laszewski, Margaret Martin, Yaxeni Oriquen-Garcia, Alana Shipp, and Helle Trevino
- 2nd - Monique Jones, Shawna Strong, Isabelle Turell, Aleesha Young, Maria Bello, and Lisa Cross
- 3rd - Irene Andersen, Christine Envall, Gillian Kovack, Virginia Sanchez, and Shawna Strong
- 4th - Margaret Martin, Helle Trevino, and Debi Laszewski
Confirmation round
- 1st - Debi Laszewski, Margaret Martin, Helle Trevino, and Yaxeni Oriquen-Garcia
- 2nd - Isabelle Turell, Alana Shipp, Aleesha Young, and Maria Bello
- 3rd - Irene Andersen, Monique Jones, Christine Envall, Lisa Cross, Shawna Strong, Virginia Sanchez, and Gillian Kovack
- 4th - Debi Laszewski, Yaxeni Oriquen-Garcia, Margaret Martin, and Helle Trevino
Prize money
- 1st $50,000 + Jeep
- 2nd $25,000
- 3rd $12,500
- 4th $7,000
- 5th $5,000
Results
Overall results
- 1st - Margaret Martin
- 2nd - Helle Trevino
- 3rd - Debi Laszewski
- 4th - Yaxeni Oriquen-Garcia
- 5th - Alana Shipp
- 6th - Aleesha Young
- 7th - Isabelle Turell
- 8th - Maria Bello
- 9th - Lisa Cross
- 10th - Christine Envall
- 11th - Shawna Strong
- 12th - Virginia Sanchez
- 13th - Monique Jones
- 14th - Irene Andersen
- 15th - Gillian Kovack
Best poser winner
- '''Winner - Margaret Martin'''
Notable events
- Due to injuries, Alina Popa stated in an interview that she will attend, but not participate in the 2015 Wings of Strength Rising Phoenix World Championships.
- This is the first year since 1998 that Iris Kyle would not attend an IFBB professional bodybuilding competition of that particular year due to her retirement from the sport.
- The first competition was held on Iris Kyle's 41st birthday.
- Both Vera Mikulcova and Jana Bendova qualified, but did not attend.
- One of the two emcees was Lenda Murray.
- All of the competitors received a rose after individual posing.
- All 15 competitors did the posedown.
- The IFBB professional women's bodybuilding cash prize for first place was five times that of the IFBB professional men's bodybuilding first place cash prize.