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Dave Johns is a Men's Open Bodybuilding competitor from the United States. Dave Johns has a verified height of 5'9" (175 cm) and a recorded contest weight of 216 lb (98 kg).
10 career wins
Dave Johns
Dave Johns, a bodybuilder from the United States, stands 5'9" (175 cm) tall and competed at a contest weight of around 216 lb (98 kg). He was born on July 5, 1956 and is 70 years old.
Career Record
- Total Results
- 48
- Wins
- 10
- Win Rate
- 20.8%
- Career
- 1971–1985
- Height
- 5'9" (175 cm)
- Weight
- 216 lb (98 kg)
- Age
- 70
- Division
- Men's Open Bodybuilding
- Country
- United States
- Verified
- Sources
- 2
Dave Johns won the medium class at the Mr America in 1976 and 1977 and at the Mr Universe in 1978. He competed for fourteen years and finished second at the professional Universe three times.
Win rate here is first-place finishes as a share of all 48 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 1974 (3 wins)
Measured against Dave Johns’s own seasons, not against the field.
Olympia
1st place
2nd place
3rd place
Other
- Pro Debut
- 1971
- First Win
- 1974
- Last Contest
- 1985
Known for
The 1976 to 1978 run is the record: the Junior Mr America and the Mr America medium class in 1976, the Mr America medium class and Most Muscular in 1977, and the Mr Universe medium class in 1978. He also won the Mr California in 1977.
As a professional he was runner-up at the Universe in 1979, 1980 and 1981, and second at the 1977 World Championships. Three professional silvers in three years is a specific kind of career: consistently at the top and never over it.
Early career
He first appears in 1971 with third places at Mr Los Angeles and Mr Physique USA, and spent five years placing second and third around California before the wins started.
The record runs to 1985 and includes 48 contests, which is a heavy schedule for the era.
Physique benchmark
How Dave Johns 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.
30.0FFMI
30.3Normalised FFMI
144thOf 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 Dave Johns sits among the athletes we hold measurements for, not among competitors.
All results
Every contest result on record for Dave Johns, 48 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 Dave Johns competed in, and shows a dash where that winner cannot be pinned to one person in the database.
| Year | Contest | Division | Place | Won by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | Universe - Pro | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #5 | Edouard Kawak |
| 1984 | World Championships | Other Divisions | #6 | Edouard Kawak |
| 1984 | World Grand Prix | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #12 | Albert Beckles |
| 1984 | World Pro Championships | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #10 | Albert Beckles |
| 1983 | Grand Prix Denver | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #5 | Tony Pearson |
| 1983 | Grand Prix England | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #9 | Mohamed Makkawy |
| 1983 | Grand Prix Las Vegas | Men's Open Bodybuilding | Unplaced | Lee Haney |
| 1983 | Grand Prix Portland | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #5 | Scott Wilson |
| 1983 | Night of Champions | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #7 | Lee Haney |
| 1983 | World Pro Championships | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #10 | Mohamed Makkawy |
| 1982 | Night of Champions | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #8 | Albert Beckles |
| 1981 | Pro World Cup | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #5 | Sergio Oliva |
| 1981 | Universe - Pro | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #2 | Robby Robinson |
| 1981 | World Championships | Other Divisions | #3 | Edouard Kawak |
| 1980 | Pro World Cup | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #3 | Sergio Oliva |
| 1980 | Universe - Pro | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #2 | Jusup Wilkosz |
| 1979 | Universe - Pro | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #2 | Bertil Fox |
| 1978 | Mr Universe | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 1977 | Mr America | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 1977 | Mr America | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 1977 | Mr California | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 1977 | Mr Universe | Other Divisions | #3 | Bertil Fox |
| 1977 | World Championships | Other Divisions | #2 | Ahmet Enünlü |
| 1976 | Junior Mr America | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 1976 | Mr America | Other Divisions | #5 | Joe Means |
| 1976 | Mr America | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 1976 | Mr California | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #2 | Kalman Szkalak |
| 1976 | Mr USA | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 1975 | Junior Mr America | Other Divisions | #4 | Sammie Willis |
| 1975 | Junior Mr America | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #4 | Willie Johnson |
| 1975 | Mr America | Other Divisions | #6 | Robby Robinson |
| 1975 | Mr America | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #14 | Robby Robinson |
| 1975 | Mr California | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #2 | Dale Adrian |
| 1974 | Junior Mr America | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #4 | Ron Thompson |
| 1974 | Junior Mr USA | Other Divisions | #3 | Mike Kowach |
| 1974 | Junior Mr USA | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 1974 | Mr America | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #6 | Ron Thompson |
| 1974 | Mr California | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #2 | Scott Wilson |
| 1974 | Mr Los Angeles | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #2 | Dale Adrian |
| 1974 | Mr Pacific Coast | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #2 | Tyrone Youngs |
| 1974 | Mr USA | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 1974 | Mr USA | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 1973 | Mr California | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #3 | Mike Besikof |
| 1973 | Mr World | Other Divisions | #5 | Willie Johnson |
| 1973 | Mr World | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #4 | Roy Duval |
| 1971 | Mr Los Angeles | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #3 | Vic Tanny Jr |
| 1971 | Mr Physique USA | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #3 | Paul Hill |
| 1971 | Mr Southern California | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #2 | Tyrone Youngs |
Showing 15 of 48 recorded results.
Where these results come from. Each contest in the table was recorded from a named source, and for Dave Johns 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
Johns belongs to the generation that competed immediately after Pumping Iron made the sport visible, and to the group whose careers were defined by class wins in a judging system that no longer exists. Both facts make him hard to place in modern terms and easy to leave out.
Sources
Competition placings on this page come from our own contest database and cover his record from 1971 to 1985.
Contests of this era awarded class titles and a separate overall. Where he won a class, the table records that; where he placed in the overall, it records that too.
Most-met rivals
Compare any two athletes →In 3 meetings, Lee Haney finished ahead of Dave Johns 3 times to 0.
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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