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Jeff King is a Men's Open Bodybuilding competitor from the United States.
9 career wins
Jeff King
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Career Record
- Total Results
- 13
- Wins
- 9
- Win Rate
- 69.2%
- Career
- 1979–1988
- Division
- Men's Open Bodybuilding
- Country
- United States
- Verified
- Sources
- 2
Jeff King won the Mr America and the Mr Universe in the same year, 1983, and the World Championships the year after. He was a teenage champion before either.
Win rate here is first-place finishes as a share of all 13 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 1983 (3 wins)
Measured against Jeff King’s own seasons, not against the field.
Olympia
1st place
2nd place
3rd place
Other
- Pro Debut
- 1979
- Peak Year
- 1983
- Last Contest
- 1988
Known for
1983 and 1984 are the record: the medium-tall class at the Mr America and the tall class at the Mr Universe in 1983, then the tall class at the World Championships in 1984. Winning the Mr America and the Mr Universe inside twelve months put him among the most complete amateurs of the decade.
He was runner-up at the World Championships in 1985 and 1987 and at the professional Universe in 1987.
Early career
He started young and won early: Mr New Jersey in 1979, the Teen Mr America and Teen Mr USA heavyweight classes in 1980, Mr New York City in 1981 and the Collegiate Mr America in 1982.
Thirteen contests are recorded for him and he won nine of them, which is the highest strike rate of any competitor from his era in our database.
All results
Every contest result on record for Jeff King, 13 in all. Won by names the winner of the division Jeff King competed in, and shows a dash where that winner cannot be pinned to one person in the database.
| Year | Contest | Division | Place | Won by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | Universe - Pro | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #6 | Charles Clairmonte |
| 1987 | Universe - Pro | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #2 | Olev Annus |
| 1987 | World Championships | Other Divisions | #2 | Alfred Krautgartner |
| 1985 | World Championships | Other Divisions | #2 | Samir Bannout |
| 1984 | World Championships | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 1983 | Eastern USA Championships | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 1983 | Mr America | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 1983 | Mr Universe | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 1982 | Collegiate Mr America | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 1981 | Mr New York City | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 1980 | Teen Mr America | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 1980 | Teen Mr USA | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 1979 | Mr New Jersey | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
Where these results come from. Each contest in the table was recorded from a named source, and for Jeff King 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
King won nearly everything available to an amateur and his professional record is three runner-up finishes. That gap is the story of a lot of careers from the mid-1980s, when the professional ranks were small and the amateur circuit was where the depth was.
Sources
Competition placings on this page come from our own contest database and cover his record from 1979 to 1988.
Most-met rivals
Compare any two athletes →In 3 meetings, Jeff King finished ahead of Thierry Pastel 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.
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