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Lou Ferrigno is a Men's Open Bodybuilding competitor from the United States. Lou Ferrigno has a verified height of 6'5" (196 cm) and a recorded contest weight of 286 lb (130 kg).
5 career wins
Lou Ferrigno
Lou Ferrigno is a Men's Open Bodybuilding competitor from the United States with a competitive record spanning 1971–1994.
Across 16 recorded contest results, Lou Ferrigno has 5 first-place finishes (a 31.3% win rate).
Win rate here is first-place finishes as a share of all 16 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.
Lou Ferrigno, a bodybuilder from the United States, stands 6'5" (196 cm) tall and competed at a contest weight of around 286 lb (130 kg). He was born on November 9, 1951 and is 74 years old.
Career Record
- Total Results
- 16
- Wins
- 5
- Win Rate
- 31.3%
- Career
- 1971–1994
- Height
- 6'5" (196 cm)
- Weight
- 286 lb (130 kg)
- Age
- 74
- Division
- Men's Open Bodybuilding
- Country
- United States
- Verified
- Sources
- 9
Every season on record
Peak Year 1973 (2 wins)
Measured against Lou Ferrigno’s own seasons, not against the field. See the full peak window →
Olympia
1st place
2nd place
3rd place
Other
- Pro Debut
- 1971
- Peak Year
- 1973
- Olympia Debut
- 1974
- Last Contest
- 1994
| Year | Placement | Division |
|---|---|---|
| 1974 | 2 | Men's Open Bodybuilding |
| 1975 | 3 | Men's Open Bodybuilding |
| 1992 | 12 | Men's Open Bodybuilding |
| 1993 | 10 | Men's Open Bodybuilding |
Data updated
About
Louis Jude Ferrigno Sr. is an American actor and retired professional bodybuilder. He won an IFBB Mr. America title and two consecutive IFBB Mr. Universe titles, and appeared in the documentary film Pumping Iron (1977). As an actor, he is best known for his title role in the CBS television series The Incredible Hulk (1977–1982) and vocally reprising the role in subsequent animated and computer-generated incarnations. He has also appeared in European-produced fantasy-adventures such as Hercules (1983) and Sinbad of the Seven Seas (1989), and as himself in the sitcom The King of Queens and the 2009 comedy I Love You, Man.
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 Lou Ferrigno, amateur shows included.
Olympia
7Appearances
0Titles
5Top 3
All contests on record
16Contests
5Wins
12Top 3
Physique benchmark
How Lou Ferrigno 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.
31.7FFMI
30.8Normalised FFMI
134thOf 316 measured men
The closest Olympia champion on that measure is Erin Banks, at 31.1.
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 Lou Ferrigno sits among the athletes we hold measurements for, not among competitors.
All results
Every contest result on record for Lou Ferrigno, 16 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 Lou Ferrigno competed in, and shows a dash where that winner cannot be pinned to one person in the database.
| Year | Contest | Division | Place | Won by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | Mr. Olympia | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #2 | Robby Robinson |
| 1993 | Mr. Olympia | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #10 | Dorian Yates |
| 1992 | Mr. Olympia | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #12 | Dorian Yates |
| 1975 | Mr. Olympia | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #3 | Arnold Schwarzenegger |
| 1975 | Olympia | Other Divisions | #3 | – |
| 1974 | Mr International | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 1974 | Mr. Olympia | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #2 | Arnold Schwarzenegger |
| 1974 | Olympia | Other Divisions | #2 | – |
| 1974 | Universe | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 1973 | Mr America | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 1973 | Universe | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 1972 | Mr Universe | Other Divisions | #2 | Paul Grant |
| 1972 | Pro Mr America | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #2 | Bill Grant |
| 1971 | Pro Mr America | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 1971 | Teen Mr America | Other Divisions | #5 | R Scott Pace |
| 1971 | Teen Mr America | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #4 | R Scott Pace |
Showing 15 of 16 recorded results.
Where these results come from. Each contest in the table was recorded from a named source, and for Lou Ferrigno 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 3 meetings, Lou Ferrigno finished ahead of Ed Corney 3 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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