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Clarence Ross is a Men's Open Bodybuilding competitor from the United States. Clarence Ross has a verified height of 5'9" (175 cm) and a recorded contest weight of 200 lb (91 kg).

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6 career wins

Clarence Ross

GenderMale
StatusRetired
High confidence 8 recorded results, Official/primary source Updated August 14, 2026 Accurate?

Clarence Ross is a Men's Open Bodybuilding competitor from the United States with a competitive record spanning 1945–1956.

Across 8 recorded contest results, Clarence Ross has 6 first-place finishes (a 75% win rate).

Win rate here is first-place finishes as a share of all 8 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.

Missing from this profile

No birthdate on record.

Clarence Ross, a bodybuilder from the United States, stands 5'9" (175 cm) tall and competed at a contest weight of around 200 lb (91 kg).

Career Record

Total Results
8
Wins
6
Win Rate
75%
Career
1945–1956
Height
5'9" (175 cm)
Weight
200 lb (91 kg)
Country
United States
Verified
Sources
7

Every season on record

1945 to 1956 shown · 8 results on record

Peak Year 1945 (2 wins)

Measured against Clarence Ross’s own seasons, not against the field.

1945
1946
1948
1949
1955
1956
Olympia 1st place 2nd place 3rd place Other
Pro Debut
1945
Last Contest
1956
Physique benchmark

How Clarence Ross 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.

27.8FFMI
28.1Normalised FFMI
211thOf 316 measured men

The closest Olympia champion on that measure is Danny Hester, at 28.1, 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 Clarence Ross sits among the athletes we hold measurements for, not among competitors.

All results

Every contest result on record for Clarence Ross, 8 in all. Won by names the winner of the division Clarence Ross competed in, and shows a dash where that winner cannot be pinned to one person in the database.

YearContestDivisionPlaceWon by
1956 Mr USA Men's Open Bodybuilding #2 Bill Pearl
1955 Universe - Pro Other Divisions #1 Winner
1949 Mr USA Men's Open Bodybuilding #2 John Grimek
1949 North American Championships Men's Open Bodybuilding #1 Winner
1948 Mr USA Men's Open Bodybuilding #1 Winner
1946 Pro Mr America Men's Open Bodybuilding #1 Winner
1945 Mr America Other Divisions #1 Winner
1945 Mr America Men's Open Bodybuilding #1 Winner

Where these results come from. Each contest in the table was recorded from a named source, and for Clarence Ross 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.

Only 2 head-to-head meetings on record so far, with Clarence Ross 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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