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Jorma Raty was a Men's Open Bodybuilding competitor from Finland.

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6 career wins

Jorma Raty

CountryFinland
GenderMale
Born1946
DiedSeptember 29, 2007, aged 60
StatusRetired
High confidence 18 recorded results, Well-verified source Updated July 28, 2026 Accurate?

Jorma Raty was a Men's Open Bodybuilding competitor from Finland with a competitive record spanning 1974–1982.

Across 18 recorded contest results, Jorma Raty had 6 first-place finishes (a 33.3% win rate).

Win rate here is first-place finishes as a share of all 18 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.

Missing from this profile

No height or weight on record.

Jorma Raty, a bodybuilder from Finland, was born on October 15, 1946 and died on September 29, 2007, aged 60.

Career Record

Total Results
18
Wins
6
Win Rate
33.3%
Career
1974–1982
Lifespan
1946-2007 (aged 60)
Country
Finland
Verified
Sources
5

Every season on record

1974 to 1982 shown · 18 results on record
1974
1975
1976
1977
1978
1979
1980
1981
1982
Olympia 1st place 2nd place 3rd place Other
Pro Debut
1974
Olympia Debut
1981
Last Contest
1982
Jorma Raty Olympia Career: 0 title(s). First appeared at the Olympia in 1981 and placed 17. Source: Fitness Volt Bodybuilding Database.
Year Placement Division
1981 17 Men's Open Bodybuilding

Data updated

About

Jorma Räty was a Finnish weightlifter who became a bodybuilder in the early 1960s. He became known as "the best back in the world". In Manila 1980, Jorma won the IFBB Mr. Universe title in the "under 80 kg" class. As of 2007, Jorma Räty is the only Nordic male bodybuilder to have won the IFBB Mr. Universe title. His country-fellow, Finnish-Estonian bodybuilder, Olev Annus, won the NABBA Mr. Universe -title in 1987.

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 Jorma Raty, amateur shows included.

Mr. Olympia

1Appearances
0Titles
0Top 3

All contests on record

18Contests
6Wins
9Top 3

All results

Every contest result on record for Jorma Raty, 18 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 Jorma Raty competed in, and shows a dash where that winner cannot be pinned to one person in the database.

YearContestDivisionPlaceWon by
1982 Grand Prix Sweden Men's Open Bodybuilding #10 Mohamed Makkawy
1981 Grand Prix Belgium Men's Open Bodybuilding #9 Boyer Coe
1981 Grand Prix Wales Men's Open Bodybuilding #9 Boyer Coe
1981 Mr. Olympia Men's Open Bodybuilding #17 Franco Columbu
1980 World Amateur Championships Men's Open Bodybuilding #1 Winner
1979 World Amateur Championships Men's Open Bodybuilding #6 Roy Duval
1978 Mr Finland Other Divisions #1 Winner
1978 World Amateur Championships Other Divisions #5 Carlos Rodriguez
1977 European Amateur Championships Other Divisions #2 Renato Bertagna
1977 Mr Finland Other Divisions #1 Winner
1977 Mr International Other Divisions #2 Mohamed Makkawy
1977 Universe Other Divisions #7 Danny Padilla
1976 Mr Finland Men's Open Bodybuilding #1 Winner
1976 Universe Men's Open Bodybuilding #8 Robby Robinson
1975 Mr Finland Men's Open Bodybuilding #1 Winner
1975 Universe Other Divisions #9 Wilfred Sylvester
1974 Mr Finland Men's Open Bodybuilding #1 Winner
1974 Mr Scandinavia Men's Open Bodybuilding #2 Janko Rudman

Showing 15 of 18 recorded results. Showing all 18 recorded results.

Where these results come from. Each contest in the table was recorded from a named source, and for Jorma Raty 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, Samir Bannout finished ahead of Jorma Raty 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.