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Jim Morris was a Men's Open Bodybuilding competitor from the United States. Jim Morris has a verified height of 5'10" (178 cm) and a recorded contest weight of 215 lb (98 kg).

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14 career wins

Jim Morris

GenderMale
Born1935
DiedJanuary 28, 2016, aged 80
StatusRetired
High confidence 25 recorded results, Well-verified source Updated August 14, 2026 Accurate?

Jim Morris was a Men's Open Bodybuilding competitor from the United States with a competitive record spanning 1959–1996.

Across 25 recorded contest results, Jim Morris had 14 first-place finishes (a 56% win rate).

Win rate here is first-place finishes as a share of all 25 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 Morris, a bodybuilder from the United States, stands 5'10" (178 cm) tall and competed at a contest weight of around 215 lb (98 kg). He was born on August 31, 1935 and died on January 28, 2016, aged 80.

Career Record

Total Results
25
Wins
14
Win Rate
56%
Career
1959–1996
Height
5'10" (178 cm)
Weight
215 lb (98 kg)
Lifespan
1935-2016 (aged 80)
Country
United States
Verified
Sources
5

Every season on record

1959 to 1996 shown · 25 results on record

Peak Year 1967 (3 wins)

Measured against Jim Morris’s own seasons, not against the field.

1959
1967
1968
1969
1970
1971
1972
1973
1974
1977
1996
Olympia 1st place 2nd place 3rd place Other
Pro Debut
1959
First Win
1967
Last Contest
1996

About

Jim Morris was an American bodybuilder known for winning competitions over a thirty-year career. Among the titles Morris won are: Mr. USA (1972), AAU Mr. America (1973), Mr. International (1974), and Mr. Olympia Masters Over 60 (1996). He said he stopped eating animal products except for fish and cheese gradually, starting in 1974 and ending in 1985, and then between 1985 and 1999 also stopped eating both of those; he credited much of his excellent health to his diet. He posed nude for a PETA ad at age 77 in support of the vegan lifestyle.

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 Jim Morris, amateur shows included.

Mr. Olympia

2Appearances
1Titles
1Top 3

All contests on record

25Contests
14Wins
18Top 3
Physique benchmark

How Jim Morris 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.

29.1FFMI
29.3Normalised FFMI
176thOf 316 measured men

The closest Olympia champion on that measure is Chris Dickerson, at 29.4.

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

All results

Every contest result on record for Jim Morris, 25 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 Morris competed in, and shows a dash where that winner cannot be pinned to one person in the database.

YearContestDivisionPlaceWon by
1996 Olympia Other Divisions #1 Winner
1996 Mr. Olympia Men's Open Bodybuilding #10 Vince Taylor
1977 Mr Universe Other Divisions #1 Winner
1974 Mr International Men's Open Bodybuilding #1 Winner
1974 Mr International Other Divisions #1 Winner
1973 Mr America Other Divisions #1 Winner
1973 Mr America Men's Open Bodybuilding #1 Winner
1972 Mr America Other Divisions #3 Pete Grymkowski
1972 Mr America Men's Open Bodybuilding #3 Steve Michalik
1972 Mr USA Other Divisions #1 Winner
1972 Mr USA Men's Open Bodybuilding #1 Winner
1971 Mr International Other Divisions #2 Ken Waller
1970 Mr America Other Divisions #8 Chris Dickerson
1970 Mr America Men's Open Bodybuilding #7 Chris Dickerson
1970 Mr California Other Divisions #1 Winner
1970 Mr California Men's Open Bodybuilding #1 Winner
1970 Mr Los Angeles Men's Open Bodybuilding #1 Winner
1969 Junior Mr America Men's Open Bodybuilding #5 Boyer Coe
1968 Mr America Men's Open Bodybuilding #10 Jim Haislop
1967 Junior Mr America Men's Open Bodybuilding #8 Dennis Tinerino
1967 Junior Mr USA Men's Open Bodybuilding #1 Winner
1967 Mr New York Metropolitan Men's Open Bodybuilding #1 Winner
1967 Mr New York State Men's Open Bodybuilding #1 Winner
1967 Mr USA Men's Open Bodybuilding #9 Jim Haislop
1959 Mr New York Metropolitan Men's Open Bodybuilding #3 Kenny Hall

Showing 15 of 25 recorded results. Showing all 25 recorded results.

Where these results come from. Each contest in the table was recorded from a named source, and for Jim Morris 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 4 meetings, Chris Dickerson finished ahead of Jim Morris 4 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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