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Gary Lister is a Men's Open Bodybuilding competitor from the United Kingdom.
9 career wins
Gary Lister
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Career Record
- Total Results
- 15
- Wins
- 9
- Win Rate
- 60%
- Career
- 1997–2015
- Division
- Men's Open Bodybuilding
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Verified
- Sources
- 2
Gary Lister won the Mr Universe tall class in 1997 and 1998 and the professional Universe in 2002 and 2003. He is British and won three more Universe titles in the masters classes.
Win rate here is first-place finishes as a share of all 15 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 1997 (2 wins)
Measured against Gary Lister’s own seasons, not against the field.
Olympia
1st place
2nd place
3rd place
Other
- Pro Debut
- 1997
- Last Contest
- 2015
Known for
Four Universe titles in the open ranks, two amateur and two professional, plus the European Championships tall class in 1997 and the British Championships in 2000.
The masters record adds the Mr Universe over-forty title in 2012, the World Championships over-fifty title in 2014 and the Mr Universe over-fifty title in 2015.
Early career
He was runner-up at the professional Universe four times, in 1999, 2000, 2005 and 2010, across eleven years of trying to win it a third time.
Fifteen contests are recorded and he won nine of them, one of the highest strike rates in this database.
All results
Every contest result on record for Gary Lister, 15 in all. Won by names the winner of the division Gary Lister competed in, and shows a dash where that winner cannot be pinned to one person in the database.
| Year | Contest | Division | Place | Won by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Mr Universe | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 2014 | Mr Universe | Other Divisions | #2 | João Bispo De Andrade |
| 2014 | World Championships | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 2012 | Mr Universe | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 2010 | Universe - Pro | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #2 | Charles Mario |
| 2005 | Universe - Pro | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #2 | Sergei Ogorodnikov |
| 2003 | Universe - Pro | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 2002 | Universe - Pro | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 2001 | Grand Prix Hungary | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #13 | Dennis James |
| 2000 | British Championships | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 2000 | Universe - Pro | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #2 | Eddie Ellwood |
| 1999 | Universe - Pro | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #2 | Eddie Ellwood |
| 1998 | Mr Universe | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 1997 | European Championships | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 1997 | Mr Universe | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
Where these results come from. Each contest in the table was recorded from a named source, and for Gary Lister 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
Nine wins from fifteen contests across eighteen years, at amateur, professional and masters level, in a country with no written bodybuilding history to speak of.
Sources
Competition placings on this page come from our own contest database and cover 1997 to 2015.
Three of his nine wins are masters-class titles and are described as such above rather than counted with the open ones.
Most-met rivals
Compare any two athletes →In 4 meetings, Gary Lister finished ahead of Sergei Ogorodnikov 3 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.