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John Citrone is a Men's Open Bodybuilding competitor from the United Kingdom. John Citrone has a verified height of 5'3" (160 cm) and a recorded contest weight of 203 lb (92 kg).
20 career wins
John Citrone
John Citrone, a bodybuilder from the United Kingdom, stands 5'3" (160 cm) tall and competed at a contest weight of around 203 lb (92 kg). He was born in 1943.
Career Record
- Total Results
- 36
- Wins
- 20
- Win Rate
- 55.6%
- Career
- 1964–2005
- Height
- 5'3" (160 cm)
- Weight
- 203 lb (92 kg)
- Born
- 1943
- Division
- Men's Open Bodybuilding
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Verified
- Sources
- 3
John Citrone won the Mr Universe short class in 1966 and 1967, and then won it again as a masters competitor in 1994, 1995, 1997, 1998 and 2004. His recorded career runs forty-one years.
Win rate here is first-place finishes as a share of all 36 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 1966 (4 wins)
Measured against John Citrone’s own seasons, not against the field.
Olympia
1st place
2nd place
3rd place
Other
- Pro Debut
- 1964
- First Win
- 1966
- Last Contest
- 2005
Known for
Two careers, thirty years apart. The first: the Mr Universe short class in 1966 and 1967, the Mr Britain outright in 1966, the Mr Europe short class the same year, and the professional Universe short class in 1968 and 1969.
The second: eleven masters titles between 1991 and 2005, including five Mr Universe masters titles and five World Championships. He was sixty-two at the last of them and still finishing second at the open Mr Universe in 2005.
He competed at 5 feet 3 inches and around 92 kilograms, which is an extraordinary amount of muscle on that frame and explains why the short classes were where he won.
Early career
His record opens in 1964 with second place at the Mr Universe, two years before the first title.
A forty-one year span usually means two competitors have been merged into one row. This one does not: born in 1943, he was twenty-three at the 1966 Mr Universe and sixty-two at the 2005 World Championships, and the record divides cleanly into an open run ending in 1969 and a masters run starting in 1991.
Physique benchmark
How John Citrone 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.
33.8FFMI
35.0Normalised FFMI
46thOf 316 measured men
The closest Olympia champion on that measure is Jay Cutler, at 35.1.
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 John Citrone sits among the athletes we hold measurements for, not among competitors.
All results
Every contest result on record for John Citrone, 36 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 John Citrone competed in, and shows a dash where that winner cannot be pinned to one person in the database.
| Year | Contest | Division | Place | Won by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | European Championships | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 2005 | Mr Universe | Other Divisions | #2 | Dimitri Doukor |
| 2005 | World Championships | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 2004 | European Championships | Other Divisions | #3 | Bernie Cooper |
| 2004 | Mr Universe | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 2003 | European Championships | Other Divisions | #5 | Guglielmo Zolla |
| 2003 | World Championships | Other Divisions | #7 | Antonio Vergiani |
| 2002 | European Championships | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 2002 | Mr Universe | Other Divisions | #2 | Rob Van Der Dussen |
| 2002 | World Championships | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 1999 | World Championships | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 1998 | Mr Universe | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 1998 | World Championships | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 1997 | European Championships | Other Divisions | #2 | Maurizio Caricchia |
| 1997 | Mr Universe | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 1997 | World Championships | Other Divisions | #3 | Uli Caspary |
| 1996 | Mr Universe | Other Divisions | #3 | Walter Engelskircher |
| 1996 | World Championships | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 1995 | Mr Universe | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 1994 | Mr Universe | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 1992 | World Championships | Other Divisions | #4 | Werner Schneider |
| 1991 | Mr Britain | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 1991 | Mr Universe | Other Divisions | #2 | Graeme Lancefield |
| 1983 | Universe - Pro | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #7 | Edouard Kawak |
| 1982 | World Amateur Championships | Other Divisions | #11 | James Gaubert |
| 1977 | Universe - Pro | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #6 | Tony Emmott |
| 1969 | Universe - Pro | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 1968 | Universe - Pro | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 1967 | Mr Universe | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 1966 | Mr Britain | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 1966 | Mr Britain | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 1966 | Mr Europe (2) | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 1966 | Mr Universe | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 1965 | Mr Britain | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #4 | Terry Parkinson |
| 1965 | Mr Universe | Other Divisions | #4 | Elmo Santiago |
| 1964 | Mr Universe | Other Divisions | #2 | Eddie Silva |
Showing 15 of 36 recorded results.
Showing 15 of 20 recorded results.
Where these results come from. Each contest in the table was recorded from a named source, and for John Citrone 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
Twenty wins across five decades is one of the longest competitive records in this database. British bodybuilding of the 1960s is barely documented and its masters circuit even less so, and Citrone won at the top of both.
Sources
Competition placings on this page come from our own contest database and cover 1964 to 2005.
Contests of this era awarded a height class title and a separate overall, and some also gave a Most Muscular award. A class win and an overall placing at the same contest are both correct.
Most-met rivals
Compare any two athletes →In 9 meetings, John Citrone finished ahead of Dmitrij Zolin 7 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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