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Jim Arrington is a bodybuilder from the United States. Jim Arrington has a verified height of 5'8" (173 cm) and a recorded contest weight of 160 lb (73 kg).

6 career wins

Jim Arrington

GenderMale
Born1932
StatusRetired
High confidence 23 recorded results, Well-verified source Updated July 12, 2026 Accurate?

Jim Arrington is a bodybuilder from the United States with a competitive record spanning 1978–2015.

Across 23 recorded contest results, Jim Arrington has 6 first-place finishes (a 26.1% win rate).

Win rate here is first-place finishes as a share of all 23 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.

Jim Arrington, a bodybuilder from the United States, stands 5'8" (173 cm) tall and competed at a contest weight of around 160 lb (73 kg). He was born on September 1, 1932.

Career Record

Total Results
23
Wins
6
Win Rate
26.1%
Career
1978–2015
Height
5'8" (173 cm)
Weight
160 lb (73 kg)
Division
Other Divisions
Country
United States
Verified
Sources
6

Every season on record

1978 to 2015 shown · 23 results on record
1978
1979
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
Olympia 1st place 2nd place 3rd place Other
Pro Debut
1978
First Win
1979
Last Contest
2015
Physique benchmark

How Jim Arrington 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.

22.9FFMI
23.4Normalised FFMI
310thOf 316 measured men

The closest Olympia champion on that measure is Mark Anthony, at 23.7.

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 Jim Arrington sits among the athletes we hold measurements for, not among competitors.

All results

Every contest result on record for Jim Arrington, 23 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 Jim Arrington competed in, and shows a dash where that winner cannot be pinned to one person in the database.

YearContestDivisionPlaceWon by
2015 Masters Nationals Other Divisions #1 Winner
2015 Masters Nationals Other Divisions #4 Art Peacock
2014 Masters Nationals Other Divisions #1 Winner
2014 Masters Nationals Other Divisions #3 James Corn
2013 Masters Nationals Other Divisions #1 Winner
2013 Masters Nationals Other Divisions #3 Ron Talamie
2012 California Championships Other Divisions #4 Joseph Guerrero
2012 Masters Nationals Other Divisions #2 Bud Woodruff
2011 Masters Nationals Other Divisions #6 Murrell Hall
2010 Masters Nationals Other Divisions #3 Peter Finch
2009 Junior California Other Divisions #1 Winner
2009 Masters Nationals Other Divisions #3 Walt Radke
2008 California Championships Other Divisions #5 Andy Gerasimon
2008 Junior California Other Divisions #2 Steve Langham
2007 California Championships Other Divisions #3 Bud Ravenscroft
2007 Excalibur (Los Angeles) Other Divisions #3 Phil LeGault
2007 Junior California Other Divisions #1 Winner
2007 Masters Nationals Other Divisions #3 Gene Johnson
2006 Excalibur (Los Angeles) Other Divisions #2 Steve Franklin
2006 Junior California Other Divisions #4 Vincent Cablayan
1979 Iron Man Muscle Classic Other Divisions #1 Winner
1979 Mr Los Angeles Other Divisions #2 James Joseph
1978 Iron Man Muscle Classic Other Divisions #3 James Joseph

Showing 15 of 23 recorded results. Showing all 23 recorded results.

Where these results come from. Each contest in the table was recorded from a named source, and for Jim Arrington 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, Bud Woodruff finished ahead of Jim Arrington 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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