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Cathy Butler is a Women's Bodybuilding competitor from the United States.
9 career wins
Cathy Butler
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Career Record
- Total Results
- 13
- Wins
- 9
- Win Rate
- 69.2%
- Career
- 1986–1995
- Division
- Women's Bodybuilding
- Country
- United States
- Verified
- Sources
- 1
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.
Win rate here is first-place finishes as a share of all 13 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 1988 (3 wins)
Measured against Cathy Butler’s own seasons, not against the field.
Olympia
1st place
2nd place
3rd place
Other
- Pro Debut
- 1986
- Peak Year
- 1988
- Last Contest
- 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.
All results
Every contest result on record for Cathy Butler, 13 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | Universe | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 1994 | Universe | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 1994 | World Championships | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 1993 | Universe | Other Divisions | #5 | Deborah Compton |
| 1992 | Universe | Other Divisions | #3 | Lynda Mason |
| 1989 | Superbowl of Bodybuilding | Women's Bodybuilding | #3 | – |
| 1988 | Ms America | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 1988 | Ms International | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 1988 | Universe | Women's Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 1987 | Ms America | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 1987 | Ms USA | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 1987 | Universe | Women's Bodybuilding | #2 | Sandra Barrett-Walker |
| 1986 | Ms America | Other Divisions | #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.
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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.
Most-met rivals
Compare any two athletes →Only 2 head-to-head meetings on record so far, with Cathy Butler ahead 2 to 0 - too thin to call a rivalry yet.
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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