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		</div><h6><span style="color:#080000;"><strong>Bodybuilder dies in a freak accident as he does a back-flip to show off to crowds during his warm-up</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color:#080000;"><strong>Sifiso Lungelo Thabete broke his neck after landing on his head in front of horrified crowd</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color:#080000;"><strong>Thabete died in the horrific accident, Saturday at a competition in South Africa </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color:#080000;"><strong>He was a former IFBB junior world champion and was tipped for a big future</strong></span></h6>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">A South African bodybuilding champion has died from horrific injuries after an attempted backflip during a competition went badly wrong.<br />
Sifiso Lungelo Thabete broke his neck after landing on his head.<br />
Worried officials raced toward the former junior world champion when he remained motionless on the mat on Saturday.</p>
<h6><img class="alignnone wp-image-233430" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/sifiso-lungelo-thabete-9.png" alt="Sifiso Lungelo Thabete 9" width="1286" height="698" /><strong>Former IFBB junior world champion Thabete broke his neck after landing on his head</strong></h6>
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<h6 class="imageCaption"><img class="alignnone wp-image-233423" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/sifiso-lungelo-thabete-2.png" alt="Sifiso Lungelo Thabete 2" width="1193" height="722" /><strong>The junior bodybuilding champion had been tipped for a big future and his death come as a shock to the sport</strong></h6>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">South African bodybuilding magazine <a class="" href="https://muscleevolution.co.za/huge-loss-bodybuilding/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Muscle Evolution</a> wrote of the champion: &#8216;The bodybuilding community was shocked and saddened by the tragic news of the death of Sifiso Lungelo Thabete, a bodybuilder from Umlazi in KwaZulu-Natal, at the weekend.&#8217;<br />
It reports that he was tipped for a bright future, having been a former IFBB Junior World Champion in the up to 75kg category.<br />
He had &#8216;impressed the crowd and the judges with unbelievable muscle size and maturity beyond his age&#8217; in his most recent competition, it reported.</p>
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<h6 class="imageCaption"><img class="" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/sifiso-lungelo-thabete-1.png?w=552" alt="Sifiso Lungelo Thabete 1" width="710" height="589" /><strong>Sifiso Thabete in the warmup performed his customary backflip. He died after breaking his neck in the landing</strong></h6>
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<h6><img id="i-829abc3c1a56d6dd" class="blkBorder img-share b-loaded" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/08/11/08/4328B56100000578-4780958-image-m-7_1502437874738.jpg" alt="Worried officials rushed to help after he remained motionless on the mat on Saturday" width="634" height="479" /><br />
<strong>Although aid came immediately as officials rushed to help after he remained motionless on the mat on Saturday, it was too late to save him</strong></h6>
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Shocker! SA junior bodybuilding champion, Sifiso Thabete, breaks his neck and dies as he does a back-flip to show off to crowds during his warm-up
