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Carol Semple-Marzetta is a Women's Fitness competitor from the United States. Carol Semple-Marzetta has a verified height of 5'5" (165 cm) and a recorded contest weight of 126 lb (57 kg).

1x Fitness Olympia, 1997

Carol Semple-Marzetta

GenderFemale
Pro Card1994
Born1966
StatusRetired
High confidence 3 recorded results, Official/primary source Updated July 16, 2026 Accurate?

Carol Semple-Marzetta, a bodybuilder from the United States, stands 5'5" (165 cm) tall and competed at a contest weight of around 126 lb (57 kg). She was born on February 23, 1966 and is 60 years old.

Career Record

Total Results
3
Wins
2
Career
1995–1997
Height
5'5" (165 cm)
Weight
126 lb (57 kg)
Age
60
Division
Women's Fitness
Country
United States
Olympia Titles
1
Arnold Classic Titles
1
Verified
Sources
3

Carol Semple-Marzetta won the Fitness Olympia and the Arnold Classic fitness title in the same year, 1997. Our database holds three contests for her and she won two of them.

No win rate is shown. With 3 recorded contest results on file, a single placing would move the figure by twenty points or more, so the percentage would describe how much of this career the database holds rather than anything about the athlete. The counts above are neither rounded nor capped.

Every season on record

1995 to 1997 shown · 3 results on record

Peak Year 1997 (2 wins)

Measured against Carol Semple-Marzetta’s own seasons, not against the field. See the full peak window →

1995
1997
Olympia 1st place 2nd place 3rd place Other
Pro Debut
1995
Last Contest
1997
Carol Semple-Marzetta Olympia Career: 1 title(s) (1997 to 1997). First appeared at the Olympia in 1995 and placed 2. Source: Fitness Volt Bodybuilding Database.
Year Placement Division
1995 2 Fitness
1997 1 Fitness

Data updated

Known for

1997 is the entire case and it is a strong one. She took the Arnold Classic Fitness International and the Fitness Olympia in one season, which very few competitors in any division have done.

Two years earlier she had been second at the first Fitness Olympia ever held, behind Mia Finnegan.

Early career

Our record for her runs 1995 to 1997: runner-up at the inaugural Fitness Olympia, then both major titles in 1997. There is nothing recorded after that.

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 Carol Semple-Marzetta, amateur shows included.

Fitness Olympia

2Appearances
1Titles
2Top 3

Arnold Classic

1Appearances
1Titles
1Top 3

All contests on record

3Contests
2Wins
3Top 3
Physique benchmark

How Carol Semple-Marzetta 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.

19.7FFMI
20.6Normalised FFMI
88thOf 147 measured women

The closest Olympia champion on that measure is Jenny Lynn, at 20.6, 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 Carol Semple-Marzetta sits among the athletes we hold measurements for, not among competitors.

All results

Every contest result on record for Carol Semple-Marzetta, 3 in all. Won by names the winner of the division Carol Semple-Marzetta competed in, and shows a dash where that winner cannot be pinned to one person in the database.

YearContestDivisionPlaceWon by
1997 Arnold Classic Women's Fitness #1 Winner
1997 Fitness Olympia Women's Fitness #1 Winner
1995 Fitness Olympia Women's Fitness #2 Mia Finnegan

Where these results come from. Each contest in the table was recorded from a named source, and for Carol Semple-Marzetta those sources are MuscleMemory and GMV. 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.

Legacy

Winning the Olympia and the Arnold in one year is the shortest route to being remembered in this sport, and she did it in the fitness division, which is the one least written about. Both facts are true and only one of them is well known.

Sources

Competition placings on this page come from our own contest database and cover 1995 to 1997.

Three recorded contests is a very short record. It may reflect a short career or a gap in our source data.