Betty Pariso is a Women's Bodybuilding competitor from the United States.
4 career wins
Betty Pariso
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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
- Division
- Women's Bodybuilding
- 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
- Pro Debut
- 1992
- First Win
- 1994
- Olympia Debut
- 2005
- Last Contest
- 2010
| 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 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
All contests on record
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.
| Year | Contest | Division | Place | Won 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.
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.
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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.
Most-met rivals
Compare any two athletes →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.

