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Kalman Szkalak

GenderMale
Born1953
StatusRetired

Kalman Szkalak is a Men's Open Bodybuilding competitor from the United States with a competitive record spanning 1978–1982.

Championship record

Championship appearances

Counted from the same results table below: an appearance is one contest entered (in the years the Olympia also judged weight classes, one appearance can carry two placings), an Olympia title is the overall win in that division, and Top 3 counts first, second and third together. The last row is every professional contest on record for Kalman Szkalak.

Mr. Olympia

1Appearance
0Titles
0Top 3

All contests on record

5Contests
0Wins
3Top 3

Professional results

Every professional contest result on record for Kalman Szkalak, 5 in all. Won by names the winner of the division Kalman Szkalak competed in, and shows a dash where that winner cannot be pinned to one person in the database.

YearContestDivisionPlaceWon by
1982 Universe - Pro Men's Open Bodybuilding #2 Edouard Kawak
1981 Pro World Cup Men's Open Bodybuilding #6 Sergio Oliva
1980 Pro World Cup Men's Open Bodybuilding #2 Sergio Oliva
1978 Mr. Olympia Men's Open Bodybuilding #5 Frank Zane
1978 Mr. Olympia Men's Bodybuilding (Heavyweight) #3 Robby Robinson

Where these results come from. Each contest in the table was recorded from a named source, and for Kalman Szkalak 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

1978 to 1982 shown · 5 professional results
1978
1980
1981
1982
Olympia 1st place 2nd place 3rd place Other
Pro Debut
1978
Last Contest
1982

Kalman Szkalak at the Olympia, year by year

Kalman Szkalak at the Mr. Olympia: no title, first appearance 1978. Source: Fitness Volt Bodybuilding Database.
Year Placement Division
1978 5 Men's Open Bodybuilding

Data updated

Physique benchmark

How Kalman Szkalak 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.

27.1FFMI
27.2Normalised FFMI
221stOf 316 measured men

The closest Olympia champion on that measure is Frank Zane, at 27.5.

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

Amateur and other shows not counted above

5 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
YearContestDivisionPlace
1977 Mr USA Men's Bodybuilding (Heavyweight) #1
1977 Universe Men's Bodybuilding (Heavyweight) #1
1976 Mr America Division not recorded (Tall) #1
1976 Mr America Division not recorded (Most Muscular) #2
1976 Mr California Men's Open Bodybuilding #1

Only 2 head-to-head meetings on record so far, with Sergio Oliva ahead 2 to 0 - too thin to call a rivalry yet.

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.

Win rate here is first-place finishes as a share of all 5 professional 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.

High confidence 5 professional results, Well-verified source Updated September 30, 2026 Accurate?