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Elmo Santiago is a Men's Open Bodybuilding competitor from the United States. Elmo Santiago has a verified height of 5'6" (168 cm).
9 career wins
Elmo Santiago
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Elmo Santiago, a bodybuilder from the United States, stands 5'6" (168 cm) tall.
Career Record
- Total Results
- 22
- Wins
- 9
- Win Rate
- 40.9%
- Career
- 1952–1976
- Height
- 5'6" (168 cm)
- Division
- Men's Open Bodybuilding
- Country
- United States
- Verified
- Sources
- 2
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.
Win rate here is first-place finishes as a share of all 22 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 1953 (2 wins)
Measured against Elmo Santiago’s own seasons, not against the field.
Olympia
1st place
2nd place
3rd place
Other
- Pro Debut
- 1952
- First Win
- 1953
- Last Contest
- 1976
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.
All results
Every contest result on record for Elmo Santiago, 22 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 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 | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 1965 | Mr Universe | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 1963 | Mr America | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #10 | Vern Weaver |
| 1961 | Mr America | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #7 | Ray Routledge |
| 1961 | Mr Universe | Other Divisions | #3 | Pierre Vandensteen |
| 1960 | Mr America | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #8 | Lloyd Lerille |
| 1960 | Mr North America | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 1959 | Junior Mr America | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 1959 | Mr America | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #6 | – |
| 1957 | Mr Eastern America | Other Divisions | #3 | James Lathen |
| 1955 | Mr Strength and Health | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 1954 | Mr Eastern America | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #2 | George Paine |
| 1954 | Mr New York City | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 1954 | Mr New York State | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #3 | Enrico Tomas |
| 1954 | Mr Strength and Health | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 1953 | Mr New York City | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 1953 | Mr New York Metropolitan | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 1953 | Mr New York State | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #2 | Art Harris |
| 1953 | Mr North America | Other Divisions | #2 | Jose Avila |
| 1953 | Mr YMCA | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #3 | George Paine |
| 1952 | Mr New York State | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #2 | Art Harris |
Showing 15 of 22 recorded results.
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.
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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.
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.
Most-met rivals
Compare any two athletes →In 5 meetings, Elmo Santiago finished ahead of Mike Ferraro 4 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.
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