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Lee Priest is a Men's Open Bodybuilding competitor from Australia. Lee Priest has a verified height of 5'4" (163 cm) and a recorded contest weight of 230 lb (104 kg).
6 career wins
Lee Priest
Lee Priest, a bodybuilder from Australia, stands 5'4" (163 cm) tall and competed at a contest weight of around 230 lb (104 kg). He was born on July 6, 1972 and is 54 years old.
Career Record
- Total Results
- 46
- Wins
- 6
- Win Rate
- 13%
- Career
- 1990–2013
- Height
- 5'4" (163 cm)
- Weight
- 230 lb (104 kg)
- Age
- 54
- Division
- Men's Open Bodybuilding
- Country
- Australia
- Verified
- Sources
- 12
Lee Priest competed at 5 feet 4 inches against men a head taller and beat a great many of them. Born Lee Andrew McCutcheon in Australia, he reached his first Mr. Olympia in 1997 and finished in the top eight at five of his six appearances, carrying arms that were the most discussed feature of any lineup he stood in. His IFBB record stops in 2006.
Win rate here is first-place finishes as a share of all 46 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 2006 (3 wins)
Measured against Lee Priest’s own seasons, not against the field.
Olympia
1st place
2nd place
3rd place
Other
- Pro Debut
- 1990
- Olympia Debut
- 1997
- First Win
- 2002
- Peak Year
- 2006
- Last Contest
- 2013
| Year | Placement | Division |
|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 6 | Men's Open Bodybuilding |
| 1998 | 7 | Men's Open Bodybuilding |
| 1999 | 8 | Men's Open Bodybuilding |
| 2000 | 6 | Men's Open Bodybuilding |
| 2002 | 6 | Men's Open Bodybuilding |
| 2003 | 15 | Men's Open Bodybuilding |
Data updated
Known for
The arms were the headline for twenty years. At his height, Priest carried upper-arm development that pulled attention away from much larger men on the same stage, and it is still the first thing said about him.
The other half of the reputation was that he talked. He said what he thought about judging, about other competitors and about the federation, on the record, in a period when almost nobody in bodybuilding did. It made him one of the most quoted figures of his era and it did not make his career easier.
Early career
He competed as a teenager in Australia and placed fourth in the lightweights at the 1990 World Amateur Championships at 18. His professional record opens in 1993 and runs almost without a gap for thirteen years.
He was a regular at the Arnold Classic, where fourth in 2002 and again in 2005 were his best finishes, and at the Ironman Pro Invitational, where he was runner-up four times before finally winning it in 2006. That same year he won the Night of Champions and its British edition, and won the San Francisco Pro in 2002 and the Grand Prix Australia in 2005.
After 2006 his IFBB record ends. He continued to compete under other sanctioning bodies, and our database holds one further result: a win in the short class at the 2013 Mr Universe.
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 Lee Priest, amateur shows included.
Mr. Olympia
6Appearances
0Titles
0Top 3
Arnold Classic
6Appearances
0Titles
0Top 3
All contests on record
46Contests
6Wins
16Top 3
Physique benchmark
How Lee Priest 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.
36.9FFMI
38.0Normalised FFMI
10thOf 316 measured men
The closest Olympia champion on that measure is Brandon Curry, at 38.2.
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 Lee Priest sits among the athletes we hold measurements for, not among competitors.
All results
Every contest result on record for Lee Priest, 46 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 Lee Priest competed in, and shows a dash where that winner cannot be pinned to one person in the database.
| Year | Contest | Division | Place | Won by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Mr Universe | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 2006 | Arnold Classic | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #6 | Dexter Jackson |
| 2006 | Grand Prix Australia | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #2 | Ronny Rockel |
| 2006 | Ironman Pro Invitational | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 2006 | Night of Champions | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 2006 | Night of Champions Britain | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 2005 | Arnold Classic | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #4 | Dexter Jackson |
| 2005 | Grand Prix Australia | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 2005 | Ironman Pro Invitational | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #2 | Gustavo Badell |
| 2004 | Ironman Pro Invitational | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #2 | Dexter Jackson |
| 2004 | San Francisco Pro | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #2 | Dexter Jackson |
| 2003 | Mr. Olympia | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #15 | Ronnie Coleman |
| 2002 | Arnold Classic | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #4 | Jay Cutler |
| 2002 | Ironman Pro Invitational | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #2 | Chris Cormier |
| 2002 | Mr. Olympia | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #6 | Ronnie Coleman |
| 2002 | San Francisco Pro | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 2002 | Show of Strength Pro Championships | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #4 | Günter Schlierkamp |
| 2001 | Ironman Pro Invitational | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #7 | Chris Cormier |
| 2000 | Mr. Olympia | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #6 | Ronnie Coleman |
| 2000 | Night of Champions | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #5 | Jay Cutler |
| 1999 | Ironman Pro Invitational | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #6 | Chris Cormier |
| 1999 | Mr. Olympia | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #8 | Ronnie Coleman |
| 1998 | Mr. Olympia | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #7 | Ronnie Coleman |
| 1997 | Arnold Classic | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #7 | Flex Wheeler |
| 1997 | Grand Prix Czech Republic | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #5 | Kevin Levrone |
| 1997 | Grand Prix England | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #6 | Kevin Levrone |
| 1997 | Grand Prix Finland | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #9 | Kevin Levrone |
| 1997 | Grand Prix Germany | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #3 | Kevin Levrone |
| 1997 | Grand Prix Hungary | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #3 | Kevin Levrone |
| 1997 | Grand Prix Russia | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #9 | Ronnie Coleman |
| 1997 | Grand Prix Spain | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #3 | Kevin Levrone |
| 1997 | Ironman Pro Invitational | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #2 | Flex Wheeler |
| 1997 | Mr. Olympia | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #6 | Dorian Yates |
| 1997 | San Jose Pro Invitational | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #4 | Flex Wheeler |
| 1996 | Ironman Pro Invitational | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #4 | Flex Wheeler |
| 1996 | San Jose Pro Invitational | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #6 | Kevin Levrone |
| 1995 | Arnold Classic | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #9 | Michael Francois |
| 1995 | Florida Pro Invitational | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #4 | Flex Wheeler |
| 1995 | Ironman Pro Invitational | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #3 | Flex Wheeler |
| 1995 | South Beach Pro Invitational | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #4 | Flex Wheeler |
| 1994 | Arnold Classic | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #7 | Kevin Levrone |
| 1994 | Ironman Pro Invitational | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #4 | Vince Taylor |
| 1994 | Night of Champions | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #12 | Michael Francois |
| 1994 | San Jose Pro Invitational | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #7 | Kevin Levrone |
| 1993 | Niagara Falls Pro Invitational | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #9 | Mauro Sarni |
| 1990 | World Amateur Championships | Other Divisions | #4 | Joseph Dawson |
Showing 15 of 46 recorded results.
Where these results come from. Each contest in the table was recorded from a named source, and for Lee Priest 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
Priest is the standing argument against the idea that the sport is settled by height and frame. He never won a major title and he remains one of the most recognised names of the years he competed in, which is a distinction very few competitors manage in either direction.
Sources
Competition placings on this page come from our own contest database and cover his record from 1990 to 2013. His legal name is recorded in our corpus.
The 2013 result sits outside the IFBB and is included because it is in our source data, not because it belongs to the same competitive record as the rest.
Most-met rivals
Compare any two athletes →In 19 meetings, Ronnie Coleman finished ahead of Lee Priest 13 times to 6.
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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