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Lenda Murray is a Women's Bodybuilding competitor from the United States. Lenda Murray has a verified height of 5'5" (165 cm) and a recorded contest weight of 152 lb (69 kg).
8x Ms. Olympia, 1990–2003
Lenda Murray
Lenda Murray, a bodybuilder from the United States, stands 5'5" (165 cm) tall and competed at a contest weight of around 152 lb (69 kg). She was born on February 22, 1962 and is 64 years old.
Career Record
- Total Results
- 12
- Wins
- 10
- Win Rate
- 83.3%
- Career
- 1989–2003
- Height
- 5'5" (165 cm)
- Weight
- 152 lb (69 kg)
- Age
- 64
- Division
- Women's Bodybuilding
- Country
- United States
- Olympia Titles
- 8
- Verified
- Sources
- 6
Lenda Murray won the Ms. Olympia eight times. Six in a row from 1990 to 1995, then two more in 2002 and 2003 after seven years away from the contest.
Win rate here is first-place finishes as a share of all 12 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 1989 (2 wins)
Measured against Lenda Murray’s own seasons, not against the field. See the full peak window →
Olympia
1st place
2nd place
3rd place
Other
- Pro Debut
- 1989
- Olympia Debut
- 1990
- Last Contest
- 2003
| Year | Placement | Division |
|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 1 | Women's Bodybuilding |
| 1991 | 1 | Women's Bodybuilding |
| 1992 | 1 | Women's Bodybuilding |
| 1993 | 1 | Women's Bodybuilding |
| 1994 | 1 | Women's Bodybuilding |
| 1995 | 1 | Women's Bodybuilding |
| 1996 | 2 | Women's Bodybuilding |
| 1997 | 2 | Women's Bodybuilding |
| 2002 | 1 | Women's Bodybuilding |
| 2003 | 1 | Women's Bodybuilding |
Data updated
Known for
Eight Ms. Olympia titles is second only to Iris Kyle in the contest's history, and the shape of Murray's is unique: a six-year reign, a seven-year gap, and then two more titles in her forties.
She was runner-up in 1996 and 1997, the two years Kyle Everson took it, and did not compete again until 2002, when she won it back at the first attempt.
Early career
She turned professional by winning the heavyweight class at the 1989 North American Championships and the Junior Nationals in the same year, and won the Ms. Olympia in her first appearance the following season.
Our database holds twelve contests for her and ten of them are wins. That is the highest strike rate of any competitor in this corpus with a double-digit record.
Championship record
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 Lenda Murray, amateur shows included.
Ms. Olympia
10Appearances
8Titles
10Top 3
All contests on record
12Contests
10Wins
12Top 3
Physique benchmark
How Lenda Murray 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.
23.9FFMI
24.8Normalised FFMI
12thOf 147 measured women
The closest Olympia champion on that measure is Iris Kyle, at 25.0.
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 Lenda Murray sits among the athletes we hold measurements for, not among competitors.
All results
Every contest result on record for Lenda Murray, 12 in all. Won by names the winner of the division Lenda Murray competed in, and shows a dash where that winner cannot be pinned to one person in the database.
| Year | Contest | Division | Place | Won by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | Ms. Olympia | Women's Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 2002 | Ms. Olympia | Women's Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 1997 | Ms. Olympia | Women's Bodybuilding | #2 | Kim Chizevsky |
| 1996 | Ms. Olympia | Women's Bodybuilding | #2 | Kim Chizevsky |
| 1995 | Ms. Olympia | Women's Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 1994 | Ms. Olympia | Women's Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 1993 | Ms. Olympia | Women's Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 1992 | Ms. Olympia | Women's Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 1991 | Ms. Olympia | Women's Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 1990 | Ms. Olympia | Women's Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 1989 | Junior Nationals | Women's Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 1989 | North American Championships | Women's Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
Where these results come from. Each contest in the table was recorded from a named source, and for Lenda Murray those sources are Wikipedia and MuscleMemory. Open any contest above and that page names its own source and links to it where the source is still reachable. MuscleMemory is the exception: the archive we recorded those older shows from no longer answers at the addresses we hold, so it is credited by name and not offered as a link.
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Legacy
Murray competed at the point women's bodybuilding was at its most visible and again after it had started to be pushed aside. Winning the title in 1990 and again in 2003 spans two entirely different versions of the division.
Sources
Competition placings on this page come from our own contest database and cover 1989 to 2003.
Most-met rivals
Compare any two athletes →In 8 meetings, Lenda Murray finished ahead of Laura Creavalle 8 times to 0.
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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Latest Coverage
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