Meet Jonathan De La Rosa: Mr Olympia and IFBB bodybuilding contestant with a Chicago and Tampa Pro win

JONATHAN'S journey into bodybuilding began astatine a young property acknowledgment to the inspiration of his dad.

Now a formidable competitor, helium has qualified for the 2024 Mr Olympia, leaving fans anxious to spot what helium volition execute next​.

Growing up

Jonathan is the lad of the bodybuilder, William De La Rosa.

From Eastchester, New York, Jonathan was inspired by his dada to go the IFBB Pro bodybuilding champ helium is today.

Born May 29, 1984, Jonathan began grooming from a young property aft helium picked up an wounded playing football successful precocious school.  

Jonathan mislaid a batch of spot owed to inactivity during his betterment period, and helium recovered bodybuilding was a mode to get backmost the value and spot helium had lost.

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Once his assemblage started to alteration helium "knew I wanted to support doing it and effort to marque that my caller sport".

In the genes

Jonathan competed alongside his dada William De La Rosa, astatine the Eastern USA Championships 2007.

Jonathan told Mr Muscle magazine: "We really competed unneurotic astatine the ’07 Eastern USA.

"Preparing unneurotic and keeping each different motivated to beryllium our champion was an astonishing acquisition that not galore sons ever get to stock with their pop.

"For that I’m genuinely grateful."

Love & marriage

Jonathan joined make-up creator and idiosyncratic trainer, Taylor De La Rosa connected December, 7, 2023.

She captioned their wedding photograph connected Instagram with affection saying: "All the times I thought I mightiness person reached the end, I would bash it each again.

"Everything I did to get to you my love."

Jonathan was antecedently joined to the IFBB Figure Pro, Swann Cardot but the mates divorced successful 2018.

Mr Olympia hopeful

The 197lb bodybuilder won the Tampa Pro implicit a beardown situation presented by the Chicago Pro champ, Mohamed Foda successful August 2024.

This triumph did not lone established him arsenic a formidable beingness successful the bodybuilding community, but besides secured his spot to vie successful the 2024 Mr Olympia​ competitions.

The 2024 Olympia 60th day volition instrumentality spot connected October 10-13, successful Las Vegas, Nevada. 

Olympia is regarded arsenic 1 of the biggest and astir prestigious events successful the bodybuilding calendar.

Upon qualifying for Mr Olympia, his woman Taylor boasted her enactment connected Instagram saying: "No 1 deserved this more, I prayed for this day, for this nonstop moment.

"God answered my prayers. I americium truthful arrogant of you, I knew you would get backmost to the Olympia stage.

"You did it baby! I emotion you truthful overmuch & I americium HONORED. I AM GRATEFUL. I AM BLESSED to beryllium isolated of this travel with you."

This volition beryllium the 3rd clip Jonathan has qualified and competed astatine the Mr Olympia bodybuilding event.

When helium archetypal competed successful 2014, helium placed 14th.

And successful 2019, aft going done what helium described arsenic a "tough divorce" with his archetypal wife, helium took 12th place.

The Mr Olympia qualifier is trained by manager Patrick Tuor who has trained galore top-level bodybuilding competitors, including Iain Valliere.