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Carla Dunlap is a Women's Bodybuilding competitor from the United States. Carla Dunlap has a verified height of 5'3" (160 cm) and a recorded contest weight of 126 lb (57 kg).
1x Ms. Olympia, 1983
Carla Dunlap
CountryUnited States
GenderFemale
DivisionWomen's Bodybuilding
Born1954
Born inNewark, New Jersey
StatusRetired
Carla Dunlap, a bodybuilder from the United States, stands 5'3" (160 cm) tall and competed at a contest weight of around 126 lb (57 kg). She was born in Newark, New Jersey on October 22, 1954 and is 71 years old.
Career Record
- Total Results
- 24
- Wins
- 8
- Win Rate
- 33.3%
- Career
- 1979–1993
- Height
- 5'3" (160 cm)
- Weight
- 126 lb (57 kg)
- Age
- 71
- Division
- Women's Bodybuilding
- Country
- United States
- Olympia Titles
- 1
- Verified
- Sources
- 6
Carla Dunlap won the Ms. Olympia in 1983 and was runner-up the year before. She is one of the few competitors from that era whose name reached an audience outside the sport.
Win rate here is first-place finishes as a share of all 24 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 1983 (3 wins)
Measured against Carla Dunlap’s own seasons, not against the field. See the full peak window →
Olympia
1st place
2nd place
3rd place
Other
- Pro Debut
- 1979
- First Win
- 1980
- Olympia Debut
- 1982
- Peak Year
- 1983
- Last Contest
- 1993
| Year | Placement | Division |
|---|---|---|
| 1982 | 2 | Women's Bodybuilding |
| 1983 | 1 | Women's Bodybuilding |
| 1984 | 4 | Women's Bodybuilding |
| 1985 | 4 | Women's Bodybuilding |
| 1986 | 9 | Women's Bodybuilding |
| 1987 | 12 | Women's Bodybuilding |
| 1988 | 10 | Women's Bodybuilding |
Data updated
Known for
1983 is the season: the Ms. Olympia, the World Pro Championships and the Grand Prix Las Vegas, all in one year. She was second at the 1982 Olympia and won the Nationals heavyweight class the same season.
She also won the Night of Champions in 1981 and the American Championships heavyweight class, and defended the Grand Prix Las Vegas in 1984.
Early career
Her record opens in 1979 and runs to 1993, twenty-four contests. She competed at seven Olympias between 1982 and 1988.
Her full name in our corpus is Carla Dunlap-Kaan, born in October 1954.
Championship record
Where the titles came from
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 Carla Dunlap, amateur shows included.
Ms. Olympia
7Appearances
1Titles
2Top 3
All contests on record
24Contests
8Wins
13Top 3
Physique benchmark
How Carla Dunlap 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.
20.9FFMI
22.1Normalised FFMI
43rdOf 147 measured women
The closest Olympia champion on that measure is Monica Brant, at 22.1, the same figure.
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: 73 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 Carla Dunlap sits among the athletes we hold measurements for, not among competitors.
All results
Every contest result on record for Carla Dunlap, 24 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 Carla Dunlap competed in, and shows a dash where that winner cannot be pinned to one person in the database.
| Year | Contest | Division | Place | Won by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | Ms International | Women's Bodybuilding | #13 | Kim Chizevsky |
| 1988 | Ms. Olympia | Women's Bodybuilding | #10 | Cory Everson |
| 1988 | World Pro Championships | Women's Bodybuilding | #10 | Dona Oliviera |
| 1987 | Ms. Olympia | Women's Bodybuilding | #12 | Cory Everson |
| 1986 | Ms. Olympia | Women's Bodybuilding | #9 | Cory Everson |
| 1985 | Ms. Olympia | Women's Bodybuilding | #4 | Cory Everson |
| 1984 | Grand Prix Las Vegas | Women's Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 1984 | Ms. Olympia | Women's Bodybuilding | #4 | Cory Everson |
| 1984 | World Pro Championships | Women's Bodybuilding | #2 | – |
| 1983 | Grand Prix Las Vegas | Women's Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 1983 | Ms. Olympia | Women's Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 1983 | World Pro Championships | Women's Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 1982 | Ms. Olympia | Women's Bodybuilding | #2 | Rachel McLish |
| 1982 | Nationals | Women's Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 1982 | USA Championships | Women's Bodybuilding | #2 | – |
| 1981 | American Championships | Women's Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 1981 | Night of Champions | Women's Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 1981 | USA Championships | Women's Bodybuilding | #2 | Deborah Diana |
| 1981 | World Games | Women's Bodybuilding | #4 | Kike Elomaa |
| 1981 | World Pro Championships | Women's Bodybuilding | #4 | – |
| 1980 | American Championships | Women's Bodybuilding | #3 | Laura Combes |
| 1980 | Ms Atlantic States | Women's Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 1980 | USA Championships | Women's Bodybuilding | #9 | Rachel McLish |
| 1979 | Best in the World | Women's Bodybuilding | #5 | – |
Showing 15 of 24 recorded results.
Where these results come from. Each contest in the table was recorded from a named source, and for Carla Dunlap 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
Dunlap won the Ms. Olympia in the years the division was being introduced to a general audience, and she was one of the competitors that audience actually saw. Very little has been written about the record itself.
Sources
Competition placings on this page come from our own contest database and cover 1979 to 1993.
Most-met rivals
Compare any two athletes →In 13 meetings, Carla Dunlap finished ahead of Marjo Selin 9 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.
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