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Danny Padilla is a Men's Open Bodybuilding competitor from the United States. Danny Padilla has a verified height of 5'2" (158 cm) and a recorded contest weight of 170 lb (77 kg).
5 career wins
Danny Padilla
Danny Padilla, a bodybuilder from the United States, stands 5'2" (158 cm) tall and competed at a contest weight of around 170 lb (77 kg). He was born on April 3, 1951 and is 75 years old.
Career Record
- Total Results
- 40
- Wins
- 5
- Win Rate
- 12.5%
- Career
- 1972–2000
- Height
- 5'2" (158 cm)
- Weight
- 170 lb (77 kg)
- Age
- 75
- Division
- Men's Open Bodybuilding
- Country
- United States
- Verified
- Sources
- 9
Danny Padilla won the Mr America and Universe lightweight classes in 1977 and was third at the 1978 Mr. Olympia. He competed at 5 feet 2 inches and was known as the Giant Killer.
Win rate here is first-place finishes as a share of all 40 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 1977 (2 wins)
Measured against Danny Padilla’s own seasons, not against the field. See the full peak window →
Olympia
1st place
2nd place
3rd place
Other
- Pro Debut
- 1972
- First Win
- 1975
- Peak Year
- 1977
- Olympia Debut
- 1978
- Last Contest
- 2000
| Year | Placement | Division |
|---|---|---|
| 1978 | 6 | Men's Open Bodybuilding |
| 1979 | 5 | Men's Open Bodybuilding |
| 1980 | 10 | Men's Open Bodybuilding |
| 1981 | 5 | Men's Open Bodybuilding |
| 1982 | 12 | Men's Open Bodybuilding |
| 1985 | 16 | Men's Open Bodybuilding |
Data updated
Known for
The nickname is the record in three words. At his height he beat competitors a foot taller, taking the Mr America short class in 1976, the Mr America and Universe lightweight classes in 1977, and USA vs the World in 1978.
He placed third at the 1978 Mr. Olympia and fifth in 1979 and 1981, competing in the open division against men who outweighed him by fifty pounds.
Early career
His record opens in 1972 and the last recorded contest is in 2000, though the competitive core of it runs 1975 to 1985. He was runner-up at the Universe in 1976 and at the Night of Champions in 1979.
Championship record
Championship appearances
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 Danny Padilla, amateur shows included.
Mr. Olympia
9Appearances
0Titles
1Top 3
All contests on record
40Contests
5Wins
13Top 3
Physique benchmark
How Danny Padilla 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.
29.2FFMI
30.6Normalised FFMI
136thOf 316 measured men
The closest Olympia champion on that measure is Sergio Oliva, at 30.4.
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 Danny Padilla sits among the athletes we hold measurements for, not among competitors.
All results
Every contest result on record for Danny Padilla, 40 in all. The table opens on the first 15 and expands in place from there. Nothing sits on a separate page. Won by names the winner of the division Danny Padilla competed in, and shows a dash where that winner cannot be pinned to one person in the database.
| Year | Contest | Division | Place | Won by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Mr. Olympia | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #10 | Vince Taylor |
| 1994 | Mr. Olympia | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #7 | Robby Robinson |
| 1991 | WBF Grand Prix | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #10 | Gary Strydom |
| 1990 | Grand Prix England | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #5 | Mohammed Benaziza |
| 1990 | Grand Prix Finland | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #4 | Mohammed Benaziza |
| 1990 | Grand Prix France | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #5 | Mohammed Benaziza |
| 1990 | Grand Prix Germany | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #7 | Mohammed Benaziza |
| 1990 | Grand Prix Holland | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #7 | Thierry Pastel |
| 1990 | Grand Prix Italy | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #4 | Mohammed Benaziza |
| 1990 | Niagara Falls Pro Invitational | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #2 | Eddie Robinson |
| 1990 | Night of Champions | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #3 | Mohammed Benaziza |
| 1986 | World Pro Championships | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #13 | Rich Gaspari |
| 1985 | Mr. Olympia | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #16 | Lee Haney |
| 1984 | World Pro Championships | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #7 | Albert Beckles |
| 1983 | Night of Champions | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #9 | Lee Haney |
| 1982 | Mr. Olympia | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #12 | Chris Dickerson |
| 1982 | Night of Champions | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #5 | Albert Beckles |
| 1981 | Mr. Olympia | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #5 | Franco Columbu |
| 1980 | Grand Prix Miami | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #3 | Chris Dickerson |
| 1980 | Mr. Olympia | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #10 | Arnold Schwarzenegger |
| 1979 | Best in the World | Other Divisions | #5 | Robby Robinson |
| 1979 | Florida Pro Invitational | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #3 | Mike Mentzer |
| 1979 | Grand Prix Pennsylvania | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #5 | – |
| 1979 | Olympia | Other Divisions | #5 | – |
| 1979 | Night of Champions | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #2 | Robby Robinson |
| 1978 | Olympia | Other Divisions | #3 | – |
| 1978 | Mr. Olympia | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #6 | Frank Zane |
| 1978 | Professional World Cup | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #2 | Robby Robinson |
| 1978 | USA vs the World | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 1977 | Mr America | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 1977 | Universe | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 1976 | Mr America | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 1976 | Universe | Other Divisions | #2 | Mohamed Makkawy |
| 1975 | Mr USA | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 1974 | Junior Mr America | Men's Open Bodybuilding | Unplaced | Ron Thompson |
| 1974 | Mr America | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #18 | Ron Thompson |
| 1974 | Mr World | Other Divisions | Unplaced | Ian Lawrence |
| 1973 | Junior Mr America | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #15 | Paul Hill |
| 1973 | Mr America | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #15 | Jim Morris |
| 1972 | Junior Mr America | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #8 | Pete Grymkowski |
Showing 15 of 40 recorded results.
Where these results come from. Each contest in the table was recorded from a named source, and for Danny Padilla 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
Padilla is the standing answer to the question of what proportion is worth. He never won an open Olympia and he is still named in any serious argument about the best physiques of the seventies.
Sources
Competition placings on this page come from our own contest database and cover 1972 to 2000.
The Giant Killer nickname is carried from the biography previously held in our corpus.
Some contests appear twice in the table below because one result was recorded under two division labels. They are single contests.
Most-met rivals
Compare any two athletes →In 11 meetings, Boyer Coe finished ahead of Danny Padilla 5 times to 4.
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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