1 career win
Cathy Butler
Cathy Butler won the Ms America three years running, from 1986 to 1988, and the Ms International in 1988. She won Universe class titles in three different decades, in 1988, 1994 and 1995.
Known for
Three consecutive Ms America class titles is the core of the record, with the Ms USA in 1987 and the Ms International in 1988 alongside them. 1988 was the complete season: Ms America, Ms International and the Universe heavyweight class.
She came back in the mid-nineties and won the Universe short class in 1994 and 1995 and the World Championships short class in 1994, six years after the first Universe title.
Early career
Her record runs from 1986 to 1995, thirteen contests, nine of them wins. She was runner-up at the 1987 Universe and third in 1992.
Professional results
Every professional contest result on record for Cathy Butler, 1 in all. Won by names the winner of the division Cathy Butler competed in, and shows a dash where that winner cannot be pinned to one person in the database.
| Year | Contest | Division | Place | Won by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | Ms International | Division not recorded (Medium) | #1 | Winner |
Where these results come from. Each contest in the table was recorded from a named source, and for Cathy Butler 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.
Amateur and other shows not counted above
12 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | Universe | Division not recorded (Short) | #1 |
| 1994 | Universe | Division not recorded (Short) | #1 |
| 1994 | World Championships | Division not recorded (Short) | #1 |
| 1993 | Universe | Division not recorded (Short) | #5 |
| 1992 | Universe | Division not recorded (Short) | #3 |
| 1989 | Superbowl of Bodybuilding | Women's Bodybuilding (Open) | #3 |
| 1988 | Ms America | Division not recorded (Short) | #1 |
| 1988 | Universe | Women's Bodybuilding (Heavyweight) | #1 |
| 1987 | Ms America | Division not recorded (Medium) | #1 |
| 1987 | Ms USA | Division not recorded (Medium) | #1 |
| 1987 | Universe | Women's Bodybuilding (Heavyweight) | #2 |
| 1986 | Ms America | Division not recorded (Medium) | #1 |
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Legacy
Women's bodybuilding of the late 1980s produced a generation of champions whose records are almost entirely missing from the internet. Butler won nine titles across a decade and has no biography anywhere.
Sources
Competition placings on this page come from our own contest database and cover her record from 1986 to 1995.
Contests of this era awarded a height or weight CLASS title and then a separate OVERALL title, and several also gave a Most Muscular award. In the table below, a class win and an overall placing at the same contest are both correct and are not a contradiction, and a Most Muscular row is an award given at that contest rather than a win of it.
No win rate is shown. With 1 recorded contest result 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.
No height, weight or birthdate on record.