Category format help

I need a suggestion on how best to organize a particular category on my site. We do write-ups on several competitions throughout the year. Normally, included with the write up is a list of all the competitors and placings for each event. Clicking on a competitor will bring you to a gallery page where you can see their pics from the event. See here for example: http://fbbmag.com/2011/08/competitions/contest-pics/nabba-results-52811/ (only the 1st competitor links to the wordpress gallery right now)

The problem is, doing it this way I’m going to have hundreds of pages of just single competitor galleries. I’m wondering if there’s a better option? Right now, the individual gallery pages are a sub-category of the main competitions category on my site. Thus when someone clicks the competitions tab, all of the sub-categories appear in the archive. So all of the individual galleries are going to overrun the main focus content.

Any suggestions on how to best optimize this situation??