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Betty Pariso is a Women's Bodybuilding competitor from the United States.

4 career wins

Betty Pariso

GenderFemale
Born1956
StatusRetired
High confidence 40 recorded results, Well-verified source Updated August 9, 2026 Accurate?
Missing from this profile

No height or weight on record.

Betty Pariso, a bodybuilder from the United States, was born on January 29, 1956 and is 70 years old.

Career Record

Total Results
40
Wins
4
Win Rate
10%
Career
1992–2010
Age
70
Country
United States
Verified
Sources
4

Betty Pariso won a professional contest at fifty-three, which our records and her own biography agree is the oldest anyone has done it in women's bodybuilding. She competed for eighteen years.

Win rate here is first-place finishes as a share of all 40 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

1992 to 2010 shown · 40 results on record
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
Olympia 1st place 2nd place 3rd place Other
Pro Debut
1992
First Win
1994
Olympia Debut
2005
Last Contest
2010
Betty Pariso Olympia Career: 0 title(s). First appeared at the Olympia in 2005 and placed 8. Source: Fitness Volt Bodybuilding Database.
Year Placement Division
2005 8 Women's Bodybuilding
2006 6 Women's Bodybuilding
2007 6 Women's Bodybuilding
2008 7 Women's Bodybuilding
2009 6 Women's Bodybuilding

Data updated

Known for

The 2009 Tampa Pro win is the one that matters. Born in 1956, she was fifty-three, and the claim in her biography that it makes her the oldest woman to win an IFBB Pro League contest outright is consistent with everything in our own data.

She was also on the Olympia stage five times between 2005 and 2009 with a best of sixth, and won the Jan Tana Pro Classic heavyweight class in 2001.

Early career

She won the Junior Nationals middleweight class in 1994 and the Nationals heavyweight class in 1996 to turn professional, and was runner-up at the Ms. International in 2003 and the Night of Champions in 2004.

Forty contests are recorded between 1992 and 2010.

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 Betty Pariso, amateur shows included.

Ms. Olympia

5Appearances
0Titles
0Top 3

All contests on record

40Contests
4Wins
18Top 3

All results

Every contest result on record for Betty Pariso, 40 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 Betty Pariso competed in, and shows a dash where that winner cannot be pinned to one person in the database.

YearContestDivisionPlaceWon by
2010 Ms International Women's Bodybuilding #5 Iris Kyle
2010 Phoenix Pro Women's Bodybuilding #2 Yaxeni Oriquen
2009 Ms. Olympia Women's Bodybuilding #6 Iris Kyle
2009 New York Pro Championships Women's Bodybuilding #2 Cathy Lefrançois
2009 Tampa Pro Championships Women's Bodybuilding #1 Winner
2008 Ms International Women's Bodybuilding #4 Yaxeni Oriquen
2008 Ms. Olympia Women's Bodybuilding #7 Iris Kyle
2007 Ms International Women's Bodybuilding #5 Iris Kyle
2007 Ms. Olympia Women's Bodybuilding #6 Iris Kyle
2006 Atlantic City Pro Women's Bodybuilding #5 Lisa Aukland
2006 Ms International Women's Bodybuilding #5 Iris Kyle
2006 Ms. Olympia Women's Bodybuilding #6 Iris Kyle
2005 Charlotte Pro Women's Bodybuilding #2 Jitka Harazimova
2005 Ms International Women's Bodybuilding #3 Yaxeni Oriquen
2005 Ms. Olympia Women's Bodybuilding #8 Yaxeni Oriquen
2004 Ms International Women's Bodybuilding #3 Iris Kyle
2004 Night of Champions Women's Bodybuilding #2 Yaxeni Oriquen
2004 Show of Strength Pro Championship Women's Bodybuilding #2 Yaxeni Oriquen
2003 Ms International Women's Bodybuilding #2 Yaxeni Oriquen
2002 Jan Tana Pro Classic Women's Bodybuilding #2 Beth Roberts
2002 Ms International Women's Bodybuilding #5 Yaxeni Oriquen
2001 Jan Tana Pro Classic Women's Bodybuilding #1 Winner
2001 Ms International Women's Bodybuilding #5 Vickie Gates
2001 Pro Extravaganza Women's Bodybuilding #3 Heather Foster
2000 Jan Tana Pro Classic Women's Bodybuilding #2 Thresa Bostick
2000 Ms International Women's Bodybuilding #6 Vickie Gates
1999 Jan Tana Pro Classic Women's Bodybuilding #4 Gayle Moher
1999 Ms International Women's Bodybuilding #14 Vickie Gates
1999 Pro Extravaganza Women's Bodybuilding #4 Laura Creavalle
1999 World Pro Championships Women's Bodybuilding #5 Laura Binetti
1998 Jan Tana Pro Classic Women's Bodybuilding #5 Lesa Lewis
1998 Ms International Women's Bodybuilding #11 Yolanda Hughes
1997 Jan Tana Pro Classic Women's Bodybuilding #15 Chris Bongiovanni
1996 Nationals Women's Bodybuilding #1 Winner
1996 USA Championships Women's Bodybuilding #3 Heather Foster
1995 USA Championships Women's Bodybuilding #3 Chris Bongiovanni
1994 Junior Nationals Women's Bodybuilding #1 Winner
1994 USA Championships Women's Bodybuilding #4 Chris Bongiovanni
1993 Junior Nationals Women's Bodybuilding #13 D'Lynne Miller
1992 Ms America Other Divisions #2 Linda Mignosa

Showing 15 of 40 recorded results. Showing all 40 recorded results.

Where these results come from. Each contest in the table was recorded from a named source, and for Betty Pariso those sources are MuscleMemory and Wikipedia. Open any contest above and that page names its own source and links to it where the source is still reachable. MuscleMemory is the exception: the archive we recorded those older shows from no longer answers at the addresses we hold, so it is credited by name and not offered as a link.

Legacy

Most careers in this database are over by forty. Pariso's best professional result came at fifty-three, in a division that had almost no schedule left by then.

Sources

Competition placings on this page come from our own contest database and cover 1992 to 2010.

The oldest-winner claim is carried from the biography previously held in our corpus. It is consistent with her birth year and the 2009 contest date in our own data, but we have not verified it against the full field of IFBB Pro League results.

In 16 meetings, Iris Kyle finished ahead of Betty Pariso 14 times to 2.

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.