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Michael Francois is a Men's Open Bodybuilding competitor from the United States. Michael Francois has a verified height of 5'8" (173 cm) and a recorded contest weight of 234 lb (106 kg).

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1x Arnold Classic

Michael Francois

GenderMale
Pro Card1995
Born1965
Born inCascade, Iowa, USA
StatusRetired
High confidence 14 recorded results, Official/primary source Updated July 10, 2026 Accurate?

Michael Francois is a Men's Open Bodybuilding competitor from the United States with a competitive record spanning 1991–1997.

Across 14 recorded contest results, Michael Francois has 6 first-place finishes (a 42.9% win rate), including 1× Arnold Classic title.

Win rate here is first-place finishes as a share of all 14 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.

Michael Francois, a bodybuilder from the United States, stands 5'8" (173 cm) tall and competed at a contest weight of around 234 lb (106 kg). He was born in Cascade, Iowa, USA on March 4, 1965 and is 61 years old.

Career Record

Total Results
14
Wins
6
Win Rate
42.9%
Career
1991–1997
Height
5'8" (173 cm)
Weight
234 lb (106 kg)
Age
61
Country
United States
Arnold Classic Titles
1
Verified
Sources
6

Every season on record

1991 to 1997 shown · 14 results on record

Peak Year 1994 (2 wins)

Measured against Michael Francois’s own seasons, not against the field. See the full peak window →

1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
Olympia 1st place 2nd place 3rd place Other
Pro Debut
1991
Peak Year
1994
Olympia Debut
1995
Last Contest
1997
Michael Francois Olympia Career: 0 title(s). First appeared at the Olympia in 1995 and placed 7. Source: Fitness Volt Bodybuilding Database.
Year Placement Division
1995 7 Men's Open Bodybuilding
1996 10 Men's Open Bodybuilding
1997 11 Men's Open Bodybuilding

Data updated

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 Michael Francois, amateur shows included.

Mr. Olympia

3Appearances
0Titles
0Top 3

Arnold Classic

2Appearances
1Titles
2Top 3

All contests on record

14Contests
6Wins
11Top 3
Physique benchmark

How Michael Francois 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.

33.4FFMI
33.9Normalised FFMI
62ndOf 316 measured men

The closest Olympia champion on that measure is Phil Heath, at 33.7.

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 Michael Francois sits among the athletes we hold measurements for, not among competitors.

All results

Every contest result on record for Michael Francois, 14 in all. Won by names the winner of the division Michael Francois competed in, and shows a dash where that winner cannot be pinned to one person in the database.

YearContestDivisionPlaceWon by
1997 Arnold Classic Men's Open Bodybuilding #3 Flex Wheeler
1997 Mr. Olympia Men's Open Bodybuilding #11 Dorian Yates
1997 San Jose Pro Invitational Men's Open Bodybuilding #3 Flex Wheeler
1996 Mr. Olympia Men's Open Bodybuilding #10 Dorian Yates
1995 Arnold Classic Men's Open Bodybuilding #1 Winner
1995 Mr. Olympia Men's Open Bodybuilding #7 Dorian Yates
1995 San Jose Pro Invitational Men's Open Bodybuilding #1 Winner
1994 Chicago Pro Championships Men's Open Bodybuilding #1 Winner
1994 Night of Champions Men's Open Bodybuilding #1 Winner
1993 Nationals Men's Open Bodybuilding #1 Winner
1993 USA Championships Men's Open Bodybuilding #2 Chris Cormier
1992 USA Championships Men's Open Bodybuilding #3 Flex Wheeler
1991 Musclemania Chicago Men's Open Bodybuilding #1 Winner
1991 Southern States Men's Open Bodybuilding #3 Bruce West

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

In 5 meetings, Michael Francois finished ahead of Ronnie Coleman 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.

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