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Art Harris is a Men's Open Bodybuilding competitor from the United States.
11 career wins
Art Harris
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Career Record
- Total Results
- 17
- Wins
- 11
- Win Rate
- 64.7%
- Career
- 1952–1963
- Division
- Men's Open Bodybuilding
- Country
- United States
- Verified
- Sources
- 2
Art Harris won the Most Muscular award at the Mr America in 1956 and 1959 and was runner-up at the contest itself in 1963. He won Mr New York State in 1952 and 1953.
Win rate here is first-place finishes as a share of all 17 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.
Every season on record
Peak Year 1955 (3 wins)
Measured against Art Harris’s own seasons, not against the field.
Olympia
1st place
2nd place
3rd place
Other
- Pro Debut
- 1952
- Peak Year
- 1955
- Last Contest
- 1963
Known for
Two Most Muscular awards at the Mr America, three years apart, is the distinguishing part of the record. That prize went to the hardest and densest physique on the stage rather than the best overall, and winning it twice at the biggest amateur contest in the country places him precisely.
He won the Mr New York State outright in 1952 and 1953, Mr National Capital in 1955, and class titles at Mr Strength and Health, Mr Eastern America and Mr East Coast.
Early career
His record runs from 1952 to 1963, seventeen contests. It ends with second place at the 1963 Mr America, his best finish in the contest he had been placing at for seven years.
All results
Every contest result on record for Art Harris, 17 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 Art Harris competed in, and shows a dash where that winner cannot be pinned to one person in the database.
| Year | Contest | Division | Place | Won by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | Mr America | Other Divisions | #2 | Reg Lewis |
| 1963 | Mr East Coast | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 1959 | Mr America | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 1959 | Mr America | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #8 | Chuck Sipes |
| 1959 | Mr Eastern America | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 1959 | Mr Eastern America | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 1956 | Mr America | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 1956 | Mr America | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #4 | Ray Schaefer |
| 1955 | Junior Mr America | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 1955 | Junior Mr America | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #2 | Vic Seipke |
| 1955 | Mr America | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #8 | Steve Klisanin |
| 1955 | Mr National Capital | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 1955 | Mr Strength and Health | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 1953 | Mr New York State | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 1952 | Mr New York Metropolitan | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #8 | Len Peters |
| 1952 | Mr New York State | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 1952 | Mr New York State | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
Showing 15 of 17 recorded results.
Where these results come from. Each contest in the table was recorded from a named source, and for Art Harris 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.
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Legacy
The Most Muscular award has no modern equivalent and its winners have largely disappeared from the sport's account of itself. Harris won it twice at the Mr America and the record survives only as rows in a database.
Sources
Competition placings on this page come from our own contest database and cover 1952 to 1963.
Contests of this era awarded a height or weight CLASS title and then a separate OVERALL title, and several also gave a Most Muscular award. In the table below, a class win and an overall placing at the same contest are both correct and are not a contradiction, and a Most Muscular row is an award given at that contest rather than a win of it.
Most-met rivals
Compare any two athletes →In 3 meetings, Vic Seipke finished ahead of Art Harris 2 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.
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