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Bill Grant

GenderMale
Born1946
StatusRetired

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 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 Bill Grant.

Mr. Olympia

4Appearances
0Titles
0Top 3

All contests on record

36Contests
1Wins
4Top 3

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.

YearContestDivisionPlaceWon 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. Showing all 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

1971 to 1994 shown · 36 professional results
1971
1972
1976
1977
1978
1979
1980
1981
1982
1983
1984
1985
1986
1988
1994
Olympia 1st place 2nd place 3rd place Other
Pro Debut
1971
First Win
1972
Olympia Debut
1976
Last Contest
1994

Bill Grant at the Olympia, year by year

Bill Grant at the Mr. Olympia: no title, first appearance 1976. Source: Fitness Volt Bodybuilding Database.
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

Physique benchmark

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.

26.4FFMI
26.7Normalised FFMI
244thOf 316 measured men

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
YearContestDivisionPlace
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

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.

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.

High confidence 36 professional results, Well-verified source Updated September 30, 2026 Accurate?

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