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James Karas is a Men's Open Bodybuilding competitor from the United States.
8 career wins
James Karas
James Karas is a Men's Open Bodybuilding competitor from the United States with a competitive record spanning 1972–2011.
Across 19 recorded contest results, James Karas has 8 first-place finishes (a 42.1% win rate).
Win rate here is first-place finishes as a share of all 19 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.
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Career Record
- Total Results
- 19
- Wins
- 8
- Win Rate
- 42.1%
- Career
- 1972–2011
- Division
- Men's Open Bodybuilding
- Country
- United States
- Verified
- Sources
- 2
Every season on record
Peak Year 1981 (2 wins)
Measured against James Karas’s own seasons, not against the field.
Olympia
1st place
2nd place
3rd place
Other
- Pro Debut
- 1972
- First Win
- 1974
- Peak Year
- 1981
- Last Contest
- 2011
All results
Every contest result on record for James Karas, 19 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 James Karas competed in, and shows a dash where that winner cannot be pinned to one person in the database.
| Year | Contest | Division | Place | Won by |
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| 2011 | Masters Nationals | Other Divisions | #3 | Murrell Hall |
| 2011 | Southern States | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 2002 | Southern States | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 2001 | Masters Nationals | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 2001 | Musclemania Superbody | Other Divisions | #3 | Keith Hunter |
| 1992 | Masters Nationals | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 1991 | Southern States | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 1981 | Natural America | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 1981 | Natural Mr America | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 1976 | Mr Eastern Seaboard | Other Divisions | #2 | Cliff Ford |
| 1975 | Mr Eastern USA | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #3 | Paul Price |
| 1974 | Mr America | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #31 | Ron Thompson |
| 1974 | Mr Pennsylvania | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 1973 | Junior Mr America | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #24 | Paul Hill |
| 1973 | Mr World | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #10 | Roy Duval |
| 1972 | Junior Mr America | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #21 | Pete Grymkowski |
| 1972 | Mr East Coast | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #6 | Fred Shandor |
| 1972 | Mr World | Other Divisions | #4 | Don Ross |
| 1972 | Mr World | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #11 | Ron Thompson |
Showing 15 of 19 recorded results.
Where these results come from. Each contest in the table was recorded from a named source, and for James Karas 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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Most-met rivals
Compare any two athletes →In 6 meetings, Joe Dodd finished ahead of James Karas 6 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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