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Elmo Santiago
Elmo Santiago won the short class at the 1965 Mr Universe and the Junior Mr America in 1959. His recorded career runs from 1952 to 1976 and he was still winning a masters title at the end of it.
Known for
The 1965 Mr Universe short class is the biggest title, and the Junior Mr America in 1959 and Mr North America in 1960 are close behind. He was third at the Mr Universe in 1961.
The early record is a run of New York titles: Mr New York Metropolitan in 1953, Mr New York City in 1953 and 1954, Mr Strength and Health in 1954 and 1955.
Early career
He first appears in 1952 as runner-up at Mr New York State and last appears in 1976. The final win is the masters class at the professional Mr America in 1974, twenty-one years after the first.
Professional results
Every professional contest result on record for Elmo Santiago, 2 in all. Won by names the winner of the division Elmo Santiago competed in, and shows a dash where that winner cannot be pinned to one person in the database.
| Year | Contest | Division | Place | Won by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | Pro Mr World | Men's Open Bodybuilding | Unplaced | Tony Emmott |
| 1974 | Pro Mr America | Division not recorded (Masters) | #1 | Winner |
Where these results come from. Each contest in the table was recorded from a named source, and for Elmo Santiago 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.
Every professional season
Olympia
1st place
2nd place
3rd place
Other
- Pro Debut
- 1974
- Last Contest
- 1976
Amateur and other shows not counted above
20 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1965 | Mr Universe | Division not recorded (Short) | #1 |
| 1963 | Mr America | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #10 |
| 1961 | Mr America | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #7 |
| 1961 | Mr Universe | Division not recorded (Short) | #3 |
| 1960 | Mr America | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #8 |
| 1960 | Mr North America | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #1 |
| 1959 | Junior Mr America | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #1 |
| 1959 | Mr America | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #6 |
| 1957 | Mr Eastern America | Division not recorded (Medium) | #3 |
| 1955 | Mr Strength and Health | Division not recorded (Short) | #1 |
| 1954 | Mr Eastern America | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #2 |
| 1954 | Mr New York City | Division not recorded (Short) | #1 |
| 1954 | Mr New York State | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #3 |
| 1954 | Mr Strength and Health | Division not recorded (Short) | #1 |
| 1953 | Mr New York City | Division not recorded (Short) | #1 |
| 1953 | Mr New York Metropolitan | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #1 |
| 1953 | Mr New York State | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #2 |
| 1953 | Mr North America | Division not recorded (Short) | #2 |
| 1953 | Mr YMCA | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #3 |
| 1952 | Mr New York State | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #2 |
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Legacy
New York produced a generation of competitors in the 1950s who won everything on the East Coast and are now entirely undocumented. Santiago won a Universe class title on top of that and is one of them anyway.
Most-met rivals
Compare any two athletes →In 3 meetings, Harold Poole finished ahead of Elmo Santiago 2 times to 1.
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.
Sources
Competition placings on this page come from our own contest database and cover 1952 to 1976.
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 2 recorded contest results 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.
Missing from this profile
No weight or birthdate on record.