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Francis Benfatto is a Men's Open Bodybuilding competitor from France. Francis Benfatto has a verified height of 5'6" (168 cm) and a recorded contest weight of 200 lb (91 kg).

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Francis Benfatto

CountryFrance
GenderMale
Born1958
StatusRetired
High confidence 24 recorded results, Well-verified source Updated August 14, 2026 Accurate?

Francis Benfatto is a Men's Open Bodybuilding competitor from France with a competitive record spanning 1985–2006.

Across 24 recorded contest results, Francis Benfatto has no recorded first-place finishes.

Win rate here is first-place finishes as a share of all 24 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.

Francis Benfatto, a bodybuilder from France, stands 5'6" (168 cm) tall and competed at a contest weight of around 200 lb (91 kg). He was born on June 7, 1958 and is 68 years old.

Career Record

Total Results
24
Win Rate
0%
Career
1985–2006
Height
5'6" (168 cm)
Weight
200 lb (91 kg)
Age
68
Country
France
Verified
Sources
8

Every season on record

1985 to 2006 shown · 24 results on record
1985
1986
1987
1988
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
2006
Olympia 1st place 2nd place 3rd place Other
Pro Debut
1985
Olympia Debut
1989
Last Contest
2006
Francis Benfatto Olympia Career: 0 title(s). First appeared at the Olympia in 1989 and placed 12. Source: Fitness Volt Bodybuilding Database.
Year Placement Division
1989 12 Men's Open Bodybuilding
1990 6 Men's Open Bodybuilding
1991 7 Men's Open Bodybuilding
1992 15 Men's Open Bodybuilding

Data updated

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 Francis Benfatto, amateur shows included.

Mr. Olympia

4Appearances
0Titles
0Top 3

Arnold Classic

3Appearances
0Titles
0Top 3

All contests on record

24Contests
0Wins
3Top 3
Physique benchmark

How Francis Benfatto 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.

30.4FFMI
31.2Normalised FFMI
131stOf 316 measured men

The closest Olympia champion on that measure is Erin Banks, at 31.1.

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 Francis Benfatto sits among the athletes we hold measurements for, not among competitors.

All results

Every contest result on record for Francis Benfatto, 24 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 Francis Benfatto competed in, and shows a dash where that winner cannot be pinned to one person in the database.

YearContestDivisionPlaceWon by
2006 Grand Prix Australia Men's Open Bodybuilding #6 Ronny Rockel
1993 Arnold Classic Men's Open Bodybuilding #13 Flex Wheeler
1993 Grand Prix France Men's Open Bodybuilding #9 Flex Wheeler
1993 Grand Prix Germany Men's Open Bodybuilding #13 Flex Wheeler
1992 Arnold Classic Men's Open Bodybuilding #9 Vince Taylor
1992 Mr. Olympia Men's Open Bodybuilding #15 Dorian Yates
1992 Pittsburgh Pro Invitational Men's Open Bodybuilding #8 Vince Taylor
1991 Arnold Classic Men's Open Bodybuilding #10 Shawn Ray
1991 Ironman Pro Invitational Men's Open Bodybuilding #7 J J Marsh
1991 Mr. Olympia Men's Open Bodybuilding #7 Lee Haney
1990 Mr. Olympia Men's Open Bodybuilding #6 Lee Haney
1990 Night of Champions Men's Open Bodybuilding #8 Mohammed Benaziza
1989 Grand Prix France Men's Open Bodybuilding #6 Gary Strydom
1989 Grand Prix Germany Men's Open Bodybuilding #4 Mike Christian
1989 Grand Prix Spain Men's Open Bodybuilding #8 Mike Christian
1989 Grand Prix Spain (2) Men's Open Bodybuilding #6 Mike Christian
1989 Grand Prix Sweden Men's Open Bodybuilding #7 Gary Strydom
1989 Mr. Olympia Men's Open Bodybuilding #12 Lee Haney
1988 Grand Prix France Men's Open Bodybuilding #9 Rich Gaspari
1988 Night of Champions Men's Open Bodybuilding #9 Phil Hill
1987 World Amateur Championships Men's Open Bodybuilding #2 El Shahat Mabrouk
1986 European Amateur Championships Men's Open Bodybuilding #3 Wilhelm Jasinowski
1986 World Amateur Championships Men's Open Bodybuilding #3 Paul Jean-Guillaume
1985 World Amateur Championships Men's Open Bodybuilding #5 Lee Labrada

Showing 15 of 24 recorded results. Showing all 24 recorded results.

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

In 3 meetings, Lee Haney finished ahead of Francis Benfatto 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.

Ron Love
8 ahead 8 behind

16 head-to-head meetings

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