Bob Paris is a Men’s Open Bodybuilding competitor from the United States with a competitive record spanning 1981–1992.
Across 38 recorded contest results, Bob Paris has 3 first-place finishes (a 7.9% win rate).
Win rate here is first-place finishes as a share of all 38 recorded contest results. It is published only where a career holds at least five, because below that a single placing moves the figure by twenty points or more.
Bob Paris, a bodybuilder from the United States, stands 5’10” (177 cm) tall and competed at a contest weight of around 215 lb (98 kg). He was born in Columbus, Indiana on December 14, 1959 and is 66 years old.
Career Record
- Total Results
- 38
- Wins
- 3
- Win Rate
- 7.9%
- Career
- 1981–1992
- Height
- 5’10” (177 cm)
- Weight
- 215 lb (98 kg)
- Age
- 66
- Verified
- Sources
- 10
Every season on record
Peak Year
1983 (2 wins)
Measured against Bob Paris’s own seasons, not against the field.
1981
1982
1983
1984
1985
1986
1988
1989
1990
1991
1992
Olympia
1st place
2nd place
3rd place
Other
- Pro Debut
- 1981
- Peak Year
- 1983
- Olympia Debut
- 1984
- Last Contest
- 1992
Bob Paris Olympia Career: 0 title(s). First appeared at the Olympia in 1984 and placed 7. Source: Fitness Volt Bodybuilding Database.
| Year | Placement | Division |
|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 7 | Men’s Open Bodybuilding |
| 1985 | 9 | Men’s Open Bodybuilding |
| 1988 | 10 | Men’s Open Bodybuilding |
| 1989 | 14 | Men’s Open Bodybuilding |
| 1991 | 12 | Men’s Open Bodybuilding |
Data updated
About
Robert Clark Paris is an American writer, actor, public speaker, civil rights activist, and former professional bodybuilder. Paris was the 1983 NPC American National and IFBB World Bodybuilding Champion. In 1989, he came out as gay in the media while still an active competitor in his sport.
Championship record
Championship appearances
Counted from the same results table below: an appearance is one recorded placing at that series, a title is a first place, and Top 3 counts first, second and third together. The last row is every contest on record for Bob Paris, amateur shows included.
Mr. Olympia
5Appearances
0Titles
0Top 3
Arnold Classic
2Appearances
0Titles
0Top 3
Physique benchmark
How Bob Paris measures up
Fat-free mass index turns the height and weight on this profile into one number for how much muscle a frame carries, so a shorter competitor is not flattered by a bodyweight comparison. The normalised figure adjusts it again to a standard height, which is the version worth ranking. Both assume the 6% body fat a competitor steps on stage at, because that is the only condition the recorded weight was taken in.
29.3FFMI
29.5Normalised FFMI
172ndOf 316 measured men
The closest Olympia champion on that measure is Arnold Schwarzenegger, at 29.6.
What this rank is not. This database holds a height and a weight for just 463 athletes, and they are overwhelmingly the ones somebody bothered to measure: 73 of them hold an Olympia title. Almost every competitor on record carries no measurement at all. The pool also mixes every division and era together, from the lightweight women’s classes to the open heavyweights, so it ranks size and nothing else. It says where Bob Paris sits among the athletes we hold measurements for, not among competitors.
All results
Every contest result on record for Bob Paris, 38 in all. The table opens on the first 15 and expands in place from there. Nothing sits on a separate page. Won by names the winner of the division Bob Paris competed in, and shows a dash where that winner cannot be pinned to one person in the database.
Showing 15 of 38 recorded results.
Where these results come from. Each contest in the table was recorded from a named source, and for Bob Paris that source is MuscleMemory. Open any contest above and that page names its own source and links to it where the source is still reachable. That archive no longer answers at the addresses we hold, so it is credited by name here and not offered as a link.
More Men’s Open Bodybuilding athletes
Athletes from United States
In 6 meetings, Lee Haney finished ahead of Bob Paris 6 times to 0.
Opponents are ranked by how often they shared a stage and how big the stage was, not by reputation. A meeting is one contest where both competed in the same division and both were placed.
