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1x Ms. Olympia, 1983
Carla Dunlap
CountryUnited States
GenderFemale
DivisionWomen's Bodybuilding
Born1954
Born inNewark, New Jersey
StatusRetired
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.
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 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 Carla Dunlap.
Ms. Olympia
7Appearances
1Title
2Top 3
All contests on record
15Contests
5Wins
7Top 3
Professional results
Every professional contest result on record for Carla Dunlap, 15 in all. 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 (Open) | #13 | Kim Chizevsky |
| 1988 | Ms. Olympia | Women's Bodybuilding (Open) | #10 | Cory Everson |
| 1988 | World Pro Championships | Women's Bodybuilding (Open) | #10 | Dona Oliviera |
| 1987 | Ms. Olympia | Women's Bodybuilding (Open) | #12 | Cory Everson |
| 1986 | Ms. Olympia | Women's Bodybuilding (Open) | #9 | Cory Everson |
| 1985 | Ms. Olympia | Women's Bodybuilding (Open) | #4 | Cory Everson |
| 1984 | Grand Prix Las Vegas | Women's Bodybuilding (Open) | #1 | Winner |
| 1984 | Ms. Olympia | Women's Bodybuilding (Open) | #4 | Cory Everson |
| 1984 | World Pro Championships | Women's Bodybuilding (Open) | #2 | Lori Bowen |
| 1983 | Grand Prix Las Vegas | Women's Bodybuilding (Open) | #1 | Winner |
| 1983 | Ms. Olympia | Women's Bodybuilding (Open) | #1 | Winner |
| 1983 | World Pro Championships | Women's Bodybuilding (Open) | #1 | Winner |
| 1982 | Ms. Olympia | Women's Bodybuilding (Open) | #2 | Rachel McLish |
| 1981 | Night of Champions | Women's Bodybuilding (Open) | #1 | Winner |
| 1981 | World Pro Championships | Women's Bodybuilding (Open) | #4 | – |
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.
Every professional season
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
- 1981
- Olympia Debut
- 1982
- Peak Year
- 1983
- Last Contest
- 1993
Carla Dunlap at the Olympia, year by year
| 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
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: 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 Carla Dunlap sits among the athletes we hold measurements for, not among competitors.
Amateur and other shows not counted above
9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | Nationals | Women's Bodybuilding (Heavyweight) | #1 |
| 1982 | USA Championships | Women's Bodybuilding (Heavyweight) | #2 |
| 1981 | American Championships | Women's Bodybuilding (Heavyweight) | #1 |
| 1981 | USA Championships | Women's Bodybuilding (Middleweight) | #2 |
| 1981 | World Games | Women's Bodybuilding (Heavyweight) | #4 |
| 1980 | American Championships | Women's Bodybuilding (Open) | #3 |
| 1980 | Ms Atlantic States | Women's Bodybuilding (Open) | #1 |
| 1980 | USA Championships | Women's Bodybuilding (Open) | #9 |
| 1979 | Best in the World | Women's Bodybuilding (Open) | #5 |
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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.
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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Sources
Competition placings on this page come from our own contest database and cover 1979 to 1993.
Win rate here is first-place finishes as a share of all 15 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.