1 career win
Bill Grant
Bill Grant won the professional Mr America in 1972 and the Mr World tall class in 1974, and placed fourth at the 1976 Mr. Olympia. He competed for twenty-seven years.
Known for
Fourth at the 1976 Olympia is his best finish there, from five appearances between 1976 and 1984. The wins are the professional Mr America in 1972, the Mr World Most Muscular award in 1973, and the Mr World tall class and Mr International medium class in 1974.
He was runner-up at the professional Mr America in 1971 and at the North American Championships in 1972, and third at the Mr Universe in 1972 and the World Championships in 1977.
Early career
His record opens in 1967 and holds fifty-two contests to 1994. He was competing at the Olympia in the years it was becoming the contest that mattered.
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 Bill Grant.
Mr. Olympia
All contests on record
Professional results
Every professional contest result on record for Bill Grant, 36 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 Bill Grant competed in, and shows a dash where that winner cannot be pinned to one person in the database.
| Year | Contest | Division | Place | Won by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | Olympia - Masters | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #8 | Robby Robinson |
| 1988 | Chicago Pro Championships | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #13 | Phil Williams |
| 1988 | Night of Champions | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #13 | Phil Hill |
| 1986 | Night of Champions | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #9 | Lee Labrada |
| 1985 | Night of Champions | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #10 | Albert Beckles |
| 1984 | Canada Pro Cup | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #7 | Albert Beckles |
| 1984 | Mr. Olympia | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #15 | Lee Haney |
| 1984 | World Grand Prix | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #7 | Albert Beckles |
| 1984 | World Pro Championships | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #3 | Albert Beckles |
| 1983 | Grand Prix Las Vegas | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #7 | Lee Haney |
| 1982 | Grand Prix Belgium | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #7 | Mohamed Makkawy |
| 1982 | Grand Prix Sweden | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #8 | Mohamed Makkawy |
| 1981 | Grand Prix Belgium | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #7 | Boyer Coe |
| 1981 | Grand Prix California | Men's Open Bodybuilding | Unplaced | Chris Dickerson |
| 1981 | Grand Prix Wales | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #6 | Boyer Coe |
| 1981 | Grand Prix World Cup | Men's Open Bodybuilding | Unplaced | Boyer Coe |
| 1981 | Professional World Cup | Men's Open Bodybuilding | Unplaced | Boyer Coe |
| 1980 | Canada Pro Cup | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #5 | Chris Dickerson |
| 1980 | Grand Prix California | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #9 | Chris Dickerson |
| 1980 | Grand Prix Pennsylvania | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #8 | Casey Viator |
| 1980 | Night of Champions | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #7 | Chris Dickerson |
| 1979 | Canada Diamond Pro Cup | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #6 | Roy Callendar |
| 1979 | Canada Pro Cup | Men's Open Bodybuilding | Unplaced | Chris Dickerson |
| 1979 | Florida Pro Invitational | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #8 | Mike Mentzer |
| 1979 | Grand Prix Pennsylvania | Men's Open Bodybuilding | Unplaced | – |
| 1979 | Grand Prix Vancouver | Men's Open Bodybuilding | Unplaced | Roy Callendar |
| 1979 | Night of Champions | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #5 | Robby Robinson |
| 1979 | Pittsburgh Pro Invitational | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #7 | Robby Robinson |
| 1978 | Mr. Olympia | Men's Bodybuilding (Lightweight) | #7 | – |
| 1978 | Night of Champions | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #3 | Robby Robinson |
| 1978 | Professional World Cup | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #6 | Robby Robinson |
| 1977 | Mr. Olympia | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #8 | Frank Zane |
| 1977 | Mr. Olympia | Men's Bodybuilding (Lightweight) | #5 | – |
| 1976 | Mr. Olympia | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #4 | Franco Columbu |
| 1972 | Pro Mr America | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 1971 | Pro Mr America | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #2 | Peter Caputo |
Showing 15 of 36 professional results.
Where these results come from. Each contest in the table was recorded from a named source, and for Bill Grant 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
- Pro Debut
- 1971
- First Win
- 1972
- Olympia Debut
- 1976
- Last Contest
- 1994
Bill Grant at the Olympia, year by year
| Year | Placement | Division |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 4 | Men's Open Bodybuilding |
| 1977 | 8 | Men's Open Bodybuilding |
| 1978 | 7 | Men's Open Bodybuilding (lightweight class) |
| 1984 | 15 | Men's Open Bodybuilding |
Data updated
How Bill Grant 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.
The closest Olympia champion on that measure is Jeremy Buendia, at 26.3.
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 Bill Grant sits among the athletes we hold measurements for, not among competitors.
Amateur and other shows not counted above
16 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.
Show the list
| Year | Contest | Division | Place |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | World Championships | Division not recorded (Professional) | #3 |
| 1974 | Mr International | Division not recorded (Medium) | #1 |
| 1974 | Mr World | Division not recorded (Tall) | #1 |
| 1973 | Mr International | Division not recorded (Medium) | #2 |
| 1973 | Mr World | Division not recorded (Tall) | #3 |
| 1973 | Mr World | Division not recorded (Most Muscular) | #1 |
| 1972 | Mr Universe | Division not recorded (Medium) | #3 |
| 1972 | North American Championships | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #2 |
| 1970 | Junior Mr America | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #7 |
| 1970 | Junior Mr America | Division not recorded (Most Muscular) | #3 |
| 1970 | Mr America | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #12 |
| 1970 | Mr America | Division not recorded (Most Muscular) | #7 |
| 1969 | Mr Los Angeles | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #2 |
| 1968 | Mr America | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #17 |
| 1968 | Mr USA | Men's Open Bodybuilding | Unplaced |
| 1967 | Mr USA | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #10 |
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Legacy
Grant belongs to the generation that competed alongside Schwarzenegger and Ferrigno and did not get the film that made them famous. Fifty-two contests and an Olympia fourth place, and almost nothing written about any of it.
Most-met rivals
Compare any two athletes →In 17 meetings, Boyer Coe finished ahead of Bill Grant 14 times to 3.
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.
Sources
Competition placings on this page come from our own contest database and cover 1967 to 1994.
Contests of this era awarded a height or weight CLASS title and then a separate OVERALL, and some gave a Most Muscular award. A class win and an overall placing at the same contest are both correct, and a Most Muscular row is a prize given at that contest rather than a win of it.
Win rate here is first-place finishes as a share of all 36 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.
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