2 career wins
John Citrone
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.
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.
Professional results
Every professional contest result on record for John Citrone, 4 in all. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | Universe - Pro | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #7 | Edouard Kawak |
| 1977 | Universe - Pro | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #6 | Tony Emmott |
| 1969 | Universe - Pro | Division not recorded (Short) | #1 | Winner |
| 1968 | Universe - Pro | Division not recorded (Short) | #1 | Winner |
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.
Every professional season
- Pro Debut
- 1968
- Last Contest
- 1983
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.
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: 74 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.
Amateur and other shows not counted above
32 results from amateur shows and other contests this archive does not class as professional. Every total on this page covers the professional career only, so these are listed here but never counted, and they have no contest page.
Show the list
| Year | Contest | Division | Place |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | European Championships | Division not recorded (Masters 50+) | #1 |
| 2005 | Mr Universe | Division not recorded (Masters 50+) | #2 |
| 2005 | World Championships | Division not recorded (Masters 50+) | #1 |
| 2004 | European Championships | Division not recorded (Masters 50+) | #3 |
| 2004 | Mr Universe | Division not recorded (Masters 50+) | #1 |
| 2003 | European Championships | Division not recorded (Masters 40+) | #5 |
| 2003 | World Championships | Division not recorded (Masters 40+) | #7 |
| 2002 | European Championships | Division not recorded (Masters) | #1 |
| 2002 | Mr Universe | Division not recorded (Masters 40+) | #2 |
| 2002 | World Championships | Division not recorded (Masters) | #1 |
| 1999 | World Championships | Division not recorded (Masters) | #1 |
| 1998 | Mr Universe | Division not recorded (Masters) | #1 |
| 1998 | World Championships | Division not recorded (Masters) | #1 |
| 1997 | European Championships | Division not recorded (Short) | #2 |
| 1997 | Mr Universe | Division not recorded (Masters) | #1 |
| 1997 | World Championships | Division not recorded (Masters) | #3 |
| 1996 | Mr Universe | Division not recorded (Masters) | #3 |
| 1996 | World Championships | Division not recorded (Masters) | #1 |
| 1995 | Mr Universe | Division not recorded (Masters) | #1 |
| 1994 | Mr Universe | Division not recorded (Masters) | #1 |
| 1992 | World Championships | Division not recorded (Masters) | #4 |
| 1991 | Mr Britain | Division not recorded (Masters) | #1 |
| 1991 | Mr Universe | Division not recorded (Masters) | #2 |
| 1982 | World Amateur Championships | Men's Bodybuilding (Lightweight) | #11 |
| 1967 | Mr Universe | Division not recorded (Short) | #1 |
| 1966 | Mr Britain | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #1 |
| 1966 | Mr Britain | Division not recorded (Most Muscular) | #1 |
| 1966 | Mr Europe (2) | Division not recorded (Short) | #1 |
| 1966 | Mr Universe | Division not recorded (Short) | #1 |
| 1965 | Mr Britain | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #4 |
| 1965 | Mr Universe | Division not recorded (Short) | #4 |
| 1964 | Mr Universe | Division not recorded (Short) | #2 |
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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.
No win rate is shown. With 4 recorded contest results on file, a single placing would move the figure by twenty points or more, so the percentage would describe how much of this career the database holds rather than anything about the athlete. The counts above are neither rounded nor capped.