Ken Waller is a Men's Open Bodybuilding competitor from the United States. Ken Waller has a verified height of 6'0" (183 cm) and a recorded contest weight of 230 lb (104 kg).
12 career wins
Ken Waller
Ken Waller is a Men's Open Bodybuilding competitor from the United States with a competitive record spanning 1968–1981.
Across 30 recorded contest results, Ken Waller has 12 first-place finishes (a 40% win rate), including 1× Olympia title.
Win rate here is first-place finishes as a share of all 30 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.
Ken Waller, a bodybuilder from the United States, stands 6'0" (183 cm) tall and competed at a contest weight of around 230 lb (104 kg). He was born on March 20, 1942 and is 84 years old.
Career Record
- Total Results
- 30
- Wins
- 12
- Win Rate
- 40%
- Career
- 1968–1981
- Height
- 6'0" (183 cm)
- Weight
- 230 lb (104 kg)
- Age
- 84
- Division
- Men's Open Bodybuilding
- Country
- United States
- Olympia Titles
- 1
- Verified
- Sources
- 8
Every season on record
Peak Year 1969 (4 wins)
Measured against Ken Waller’s own seasons, not against the field. See the full peak window →
- Pro Debut
- 1968
- First Win
- 1969
- Olympia Debut
- 1976
- Last Contest
- 1981
| Year | Placement | Division |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 1 | Men's Open Bodybuilding |
| 1977 | 5 | Men's Open Bodybuilding |
| 1980 | 16 | Men's Open Bodybuilding |
| 1981 | 16 | Men's Open Bodybuilding |
Data updated
About
Kenny Waller (born March 20, 1942) is an American former bodybuilder featured in the 1977 movie Pumping Iron, which starred Arnold Schwarzenegger. Waller also won the 1975 International Federation of Bodybuilders (IFBB) Mr. Universe contest in Pretoria, South Africa. He was known for his curly red hair, freckles and his graceful, confident posing style.
Where the titles came from
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 Ken Waller, amateur shows included.
Olympia
All contests on record
How Ken Waller 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 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 Ken Waller sits among the athletes we hold measurements for, not among competitors.
All results
Every contest result on record for Ken Waller, 30 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 Ken Waller competed in, and shows a dash where that winner cannot be pinned to one person in the database.
| Year | Contest | Division | Place | Won by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | Mr. Olympia | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #16 | Franco Columbu |
| 1980 | Grand Prix California | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #7 | Chris Dickerson |
| 1980 | Mr. Olympia | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #16 | Arnold Schwarzenegger |
| 1980 | Pittsburgh Pro Invitational | Men's Open Bodybuilding | Unplaced | Casey Viator |
| 1979 | Night of Champions | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #6 | Robby Robinson |
| 1977 | Olympia | Other Divisions | #2 | Robby Robinson |
| 1977 | Mr. Olympia | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #5 | Frank Zane |
| 1976 | Olympia | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 1975 | Universe | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 1974 | Universe | Other Divisions | #2 | Lou Ferrigno |
| 1973 | Mr World | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 1973 | Universe | Other Divisions | #2 | Lou Ferrigno |
| 1972 | Mr International | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 1972 | Mr World | Other Divisions | #2 | Don Ross |
| 1971 | Mr America | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 1971 | Mr International | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 1971 | Mr Universe | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 1971 | Pro Mr World | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #2 | Boyer Coe |
| 1970 | Junior Mr America | Other Divisions | #2 | Chris Dickerson |
| 1970 | Junior Mr America | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #2 | Chris Dickerson |
| 1970 | Mr America | Other Divisions | #2 | Chris Dickerson |
| 1970 | Mr America | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #2 | Chris Dickerson |
| 1970 | Mr World | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 1969 | Junior Mr USA | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 1969 | Junior Mr USA | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 1969 | Mr America | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #3 | Boyer Coe |
| 1969 | Mr USA | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 1969 | Mr USA | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 1968 | Mr America | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #4 | Jim Haislop |
| 1968 | Mr USA | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #4 | Chris Dickerson |
Showing 15 of 30 recorded results.
Where these results come from. Each contest in the table was recorded from a named source, and for Ken Waller 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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Most-met rivals
Compare any two athletes →In 5 meetings, Ed Corney finished ahead of Ken Waller 3 times to 2.
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.

