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Mike Christian is a Men's Physique competitor from the United States. Mike Christian has a verified height of 6'1" (185 cm) and a recorded contest weight of 245 lb (111 kg).
10 career wins
Mike Christian
Mike Christian, a bodybuilder from the United States, stands 6'1" (185 cm) tall and competes at a contest weight of around 245 lb (111 kg). He was born on December 5, 1955 and is 70 years old.
Career Record
- Total Results
- 41
- Wins
- 10
- Win Rate
- 24.4%
- Career
- 1979–2023
- Height
- 6'1" (185 cm)
- Weight
- 245 lb (111 kg)
- Age
- 70
- Division
- Men's Physique
- Country
- United States
- Verified
- Sources
- 19
Mike Christian won the Nationals and the World Amateur Championships in 1984 and was third at the 1986 Mr. Olympia. He won four professional Grand Prix contests in 1988 and 1989.
Win rate here is first-place finishes as a share of all 41 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 (3 wins)
Measured against Mike Christian’s own seasons, not against the field. See the full peak window →
Olympia
1st place
2nd place
3rd place
Other
- Pro Debut
- 1979
- Olympia Debut
- 1985
- Peak Year
- 1989
- Last Contest
- 2023
| Year | Placement | Division |
|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 5 | Men's Open Bodybuilding |
| 1986 | 3 | Men's Open Bodybuilding |
| 1987 | 4 | Men's Open Bodybuilding |
| 1989 | 6 | Men's Open Bodybuilding |
| 1990 | 4 | Men's Open Bodybuilding |
Data updated
Known for
1984 is the amateur peak: the heavyweight class at both the Nationals and the World Amateur Championships. The professional record follows in 1988 and 1989 with the Grand Prix US Pro, the World Pro Championships, and the Grand Prix in Germany and Spain.
His Olympia record is five appearances between 1985 and 1990, with third in 1986 and fourth in 1987 and 1990.
Early career
He won the heavyweights at the 1979 North American Championships, Mr California in 1981 and the California Championships in 1983 before the national titles.
He was runner-up at the 1990 Arnold Classic, his last recorded podium.
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 Mike Christian, amateur shows included.
Mr. Olympia
5Appearances
0Titles
1Top 3
Arnold Classic
1Appearances
0Titles
1Top 3
All contests on record
41Contests
10Wins
22Top 3
Physique benchmark
How Mike Christian 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.
30.4FFMI
30.0Normalised FFMI
154thOf 316 measured men
The closest Olympia champion on that measure is Ramon Rocha Queiroz, at 30.0, the same figure.
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 Mike Christian sits among the athletes we hold measurements for, not among competitors.
All results
Every contest result on record for Mike Christian, 41 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 Mike Christian competed in, and shows a dash where that winner cannot be pinned to one person in the database.
| Year | Contest | Division | Place | Won by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | IFBB Charlotte Pro | Men's Physique | #11 | Corey Morris |
| 2023 | IFBB Palmetto Classic Pro | Men's Physique | #15 | Daniel Ammons |
| 2021 | IFBB Chicago Pro | Men's Physique | Unplaced | Ramses Rams |
| 2021 | Lenda Murray Norfolk Pro | Men's Physique | #16 | Clarence McSpadden |
| 2021 | Texas Pro | Men's Physique | #16 | Joseph Lee |
| 1991 | WBF Grand Prix | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #2 | Gary Strydom |
| 1990 | Arnold Classic | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #2 | Mike Ashley |
| 1990 | Mr. Olympia | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #4 | Lee Haney |
| 1989 | Grand Prix England | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #4 | Lee Labrada |
| 1989 | Grand Prix Finland | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #5 | Lee Labrada |
| 1989 | Grand Prix France | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #2 | Gary Strydom |
| 1989 | Grand Prix Germany | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 1989 | Grand Prix Holland | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #6 | Lee Labrada |
| 1989 | Grand Prix Spain | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 1989 | Grand Prix Spain (2) | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 1989 | Grand Prix Sweden | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #2 | Gary Strydom |
| 1989 | Mr. Olympia | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #6 | Lee Haney |
| 1988 | Grand Prix US Pro | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 1988 | World Pro Championships | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 1987 | Grand Prix France | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #5 | Rich Gaspari |
| 1987 | Grand Prix Germany | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #3 | Rich Gaspari |
| 1987 | Grand Prix Germany (2) | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #4 | Lee Haney |
| 1987 | Mr. Olympia | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #4 | Lee Haney |
| 1986 | Los Angeles Pro Championships | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #2 | Rich Gaspari |
| 1986 | Mr. Olympia | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #3 | Lee Haney |
| 1986 | World Pro Championships | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #2 | Rich Gaspari |
| 1985 | Mr. Olympia | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #5 | Lee Haney |
| 1985 | Night of Champions | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #4 | Albert Beckles |
| 1984 | Nationals | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 1984 | World Amateur Championships | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 1983 | California Championships | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 1983 | Nationals | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #3 | Bob Paris |
| 1982 | Gold's Classic | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #3 | Jon Loyd |
| 1982 | Nationals | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #5 | Lee Haney |
| 1982 | USA Championships | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #4 | Jon Jordan |
| 1981 | Mr California | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 1980 | Junior Mr America | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #4 | Stephen Sepaniak |
| 1979 | Junior Mr America | Other Divisions | #3 | John Brown |
| 1979 | Mr Pacific Coast | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #3 | Jackie Johnson |
| 1979 | Mr USA | Other Divisions | #4 | Rufus Howard |
| 1979 | North American Championships | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
Showing 15 of 41 recorded results.
Where these results come from. Each contest in the table was recorded from a named source, and for Mike Christian those sources are MuscleMemory and NPC Contests. 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
Christian competed in the years between the Pumping Iron generation and the Yates era, a stretch the sport tends to skip over. He was in the Olympia top four three times in it.
Sources
Competition placings on this page come from our own contest database and cover 1979 to 2023.
The record has a long tail after 1990 with no results in it; treat the competitive career as running 1979 to 1990.
Most-met rivals
Compare any two athletes →In 7 meetings, Lee Haney finished ahead of Mike Christian 7 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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