Dennis Tinerino was a Men’s Open Bodybuilding competitor from the United States with a competitive record spanning 1969–1982.
About
Dennis Tinerino (December 23, 1945 – May 7, 2010) was an American bodybuilder, most prominent in the late 1960s and 1970s. He won the Mr. Universe title four times in 1968, 1975, 1980 and 1981 and Mr. World in 1971 in the tall man’s category, and Mr. America in 1978. After becoming involved in a life of crime, running one of the biggest escort services in California, he became an international evangelist. The 1983 edition of The Gold’s Gym book of bodybuilding cited him as “one of the most successful bodybuilders of the past decade or two”. He is an inductee of the National Fitness Hall of Fame, IFBB Hall of Fame and National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame.
Championship record
Championship appearances
Counted from the same results table below: an appearance is one contest entered (in the years the Olympia also judged weight classes, one appearance can carry two placings), an Olympia title is the overall win in that division, and Top 3 counts first, second and third together. The last row is every professional contest on record for Dennis Tinerino.
Mr. Olympia
6Appearances
0Titles
1Top 3
Professional results
Every professional contest result on record for Dennis Tinerino, 26 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 Dennis Tinerino competed in, and shows a dash where that winner cannot be pinned to one person in the database.
Showing 15 of 26 professional results.
Where these results come from. Each contest in the table was recorded from a named source, and for Dennis Tinerino 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.
Every professional season
Peak Year
1981 (2 wins)
Measured against Dennis Tinerino’s own seasons, not against the field. See the full peak window →
1969
1970
1971
1972
1973
1975
1977
1978
1979
1980
1981
1982
Olympia
1st place
2nd place
3rd place
Other
- Pro Debut
- 1969
- First Win
- 1972
- Olympia Debut
- 1977
- Peak Year
- 1981
- Last Contest
- 1982
Dennis Tinerino at the Olympia, year by year
| Year | Placement | Division |
|---|---|---|
| 1977 | 6 | Men’s Open Bodybuilding |
| 1978 | 9 | Men’s Open Bodybuilding |
| 1979 | 2 | Men’s Open Bodybuilding |
| 1980 | 8 | Men’s Open Bodybuilding |
| 1981 | 7 | Men’s Open Bodybuilding |
| 1982 | 14 | Men’s Open Bodybuilding |
Data updated
Physique benchmark
How Dennis Tinerino 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.
28.0FFMI
27.9Normalised FFMI
213thOf 316 measured men
The closest Olympia champion on that measure is Brandon Hendrickson, at 27.7.
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: 74 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 Dennis Tinerino sits among the athletes we hold measurements for, not among competitors.
Amateur and other shows not counted above
27 results from amateur shows and other contests this archive does not class as professional. Every total on this page covers the professional career only, so these are listed here but never counted, and they have no contest page.
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In 5 meetings, Frank Zane finished ahead of Dennis Tinerino 5 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.
Win rate here is first-place finishes as a share of all 26 professional 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.
