Who are the fittest world leaders? 11 buff bosses

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President Obama shoots a basket during the annual Easter Egg Roll on April 1, 2013, on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C. (Saul Loeb / AFP/Getty Images)

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Tony Abbott and Australia’s cricket team. Abbott has competed in an Ironman triathlon (causing hubbub when he billed travel expenses to taxpayers). HFR: Abbott “regularly cycles up and down hills near Parliament House.” (Rob Griffith / Associated Press)

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Mexican President and fitness buff Enrique Pena Nieto launched a campaign in October 2013 to fight obesity and diabetes in Mexico, urging citizens to exercise an hour a day. (Dario Lopez-Mills / Associated Press)

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Then-President Bush and then-British Prime Minister Tony Blair at Camp David in 2001. Bush and Blair made the HFR list. As president, Bush had a treadmill on Air Force One. Blair has had some recent health issues but regularly hits the gym and plays football with his kids. (Doug Mills / Associated Press)

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Grand Duke Henri, left, with Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski in Warsaw, is a military man and honorary member of the British Parachute Regiment. (Alik Keplicz / Associated Press)

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NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen cycled the Alpe d’Huez -- and its notoriously steep climb -- in 2008 before the Tour de France. (Olivier Hoslet / EPA)

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President Clinton jogs with daughter Chelsea at Martha’s Vineyard in 1997. The former cheeseburger addict is set to moderate a “health transformation” panel at the Health Matters conference at La Quinta resort. (Ruth Fremson / Associated Press)

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King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck and Queen Jetsun Pema of Bhutan play basketball regularly. They reportedly want it to be made the national sport. (Harish Tyagi / EPA)

By Amy Hubbard

Jan. 9, 2014 5:25 PM PT

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The folks at Health Fitness Revolution looked at the world’s heads of state (and a few former) and picked 11 they thought qualified as the fittest.

I was surprised to see our cheeseburger-loving ex-president on the list. But Bill Clinton is there.

According to the magazine’s founder, Samir Becic, criteria included how the leaders coped with their own medical issues as well as their “promotion of a healthy lifestyle within their own country.” Clinton was known as a jogger and also for his love of jalapeño cheeseburgers. But in 2010, after dealing with heart trouble, Clinton adopted a vegan diet and pared off the extra pounds.

Not surprising was the inclusion of Russia’s favorite man without a shirt, President Vladimir Putin. His fondness for an active lifestyle is legend. (See him here showing his pecs and hanging out in a hang glider.)

Becic said they started with a list of 100 and narrowed it down to the fittest. Flip through the photos above and tell us in the comments what you think. Anybody you’d skip? Any buff leader forgotten?

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