Matus Valent (born on April 20, 1981) is a European male fitness model born
in Bratislava, Slovak Republic living in California.
As a youth, he played indoor volleyball and became the Junior Slovakian
champion with his team ASK Inter. He was also on the Slovakian National
volleyball team at age 19. During his college years, he turned to beach volleyball, and in 2004 he
became the California A-Category champion.
After earning a University Masters Degree in Physical Education and Sports
with Management in his hometown, he moved to California where he now lives.
Matus Valent has appeared in numerous magazines (over 100 in the past 6
years ) including Muscle & Fitness,Fitness RX, Flex, Muscle &
Performance and many others with over dozen covers here in USA and
international. He also has several catalog, romance novels & fitness book
covers under his belt.
Matus has participated in fitness and sport modeling competitions, winning
1st place at the Model America event in 2006, 1st place at the Model California
in 2005 & 2006 and 3rd place at the Model Universe in Miami 2006.
His modeling career has lead to many other opportunities for Matus,
including appearing in the music video for Kristine W's hit " Walk
Away," modeling for the movie poster for "Pathfinder", being
featured in national advertising for Otomix fitness clothing and active wear,
national TV commercial for Shake Weight, TCORE, and ORECK XL vacuums and
co-starring in the third season of Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency TV series.
In 2009, Matus also appeared in ad campaigns for Prosource.net and Nutrition
Express supplements superstores and made an appearance in the movie "Night
at the Museum 2." Matus is very grateful for his success and enjoys the opportunities his life
in America has made possible.
