Samir Bannout is a Men’s Open Bodybuilding competitor from Lebanon with a competitive record spanning 1974–2011.
Across 57 recorded contest results, Samir Bannout has 5 first-place finishes (a 8.8% win rate), including 1× Olympia title.
Win rate here is first-place finishes as a share of all 57 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.
Samir Bannout, a bodybuilder from Lebanon, stands 5’8″ (173 cm) tall and competed at a contest weight of around 205 lb (93 kg). He was born in Lebanon on November 7, 1955 and is 70 years old.
Career Record
- Total Results
- 57
- Wins
- 5
- Win Rate
- 8.8%
- Career
- 1974–2011
- Height
- 5’8″ (173 cm)
- Weight
- 205 lb (93 kg)
- Age
- 70
- Olympia Titles
- 1
- Verified
- Sources
- 16
Every season on record
Peak Year
1979 (2 wins)
Measured against Samir Bannout’s own seasons, not against the field. See the full peak window →
1974
1976
1977
1978
1979
1980
1981
1982
1983
1984
1985
1988
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1996
2011
Olympia
1st place
2nd place
3rd place
Other
- Pro Debut
- 1974
- First Win
- 1979
- Olympia Debut
- 1980
- Last Contest
- 2011
Samir Bannout Olympia Career: 1 title(s) (1983 to 1983). First appeared at the Olympia in 1980 and placed 15. Source: Fitness Volt Bodybuilding Database.
| Year | Placement | Division |
|---|---|---|
| 1980 | 15 | Men’s Open Bodybuilding |
| 1981 | 9 | Men’s Open Bodybuilding |
| 1982 | 4 | Men’s Open Bodybuilding |
| 1983 | 1 | Men’s Open Bodybuilding |
| 1984 | 6 | Men’s Open Bodybuilding |
| 1988 | 8 | Men’s Open Bodybuilding |
| 1989 | 9 | Men’s Open Bodybuilding |
| 1990 | 8 | Men’s Open Bodybuilding |
| 1994 | 18 | Men’s Open Bodybuilding |
Data updated
About
Samir Bannout is a Lebanese former professional bodybuilder and commentator. Nicknamed ‘The Lion of Lebanon’, he won the 1983 Mr. Olympia, defeating Mohamed Makkawy and Lee Haney. He is the first Middle Eastern bodybuilder to win a Mr. Olympia title.
Championship record
Where the titles came from
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 Samir Bannout, amateur shows included.
Mr. Olympia
12Appearances
1Titles
1Top 3
Arnold Classic
4Appearances
0Titles
0Top 3
Physique benchmark
How Samir Bannout 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
29.8Normalised FFMI
160thOf 316 measured men
The closest Olympia champion on that measure is Franco Columbu, at 29.9.
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 Samir Bannout sits among the athletes we hold measurements for, not among competitors.
All results
Every contest result on record for Samir Bannout, 57 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 Samir Bannout competed in, and shows a dash where that winner cannot be pinned to one person in the database.
Showing 15 of 57 recorded results.
Where these results come from. Each contest in the table was recorded from a named source, and for Samir Bannout 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 Lebanon
Samir Bannout peak window
In 5 meetings, Lee Haney finished ahead of Samir Bannout 4 times to 1.
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.
