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Oscar Heidenstam is a Men's Open Bodybuilding competitor from Cyprus.

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2 career wins

Oscar Heidenstam

CountryCyprus
GenderMale
Born1911
StatusRetired
High confidence 12 recorded results, Well-verified source Updated August 9, 2026 Accurate?
Missing from this profile

No height or weight on record.

Oscar Heidenstam, a bodybuilder from Cyprus, was born in 1911.

Career Record

Total Results
12
Wins
2
Win Rate
16.7%
Career
1937–1953
Born
1911
Country
Cyprus
Verified
Sources
3

Oscar Heidenstam was a bodybuilder of the pre-war and immediate post-war era, born in 1911, whose recorded career runs from 1937 to 1953. Twelve results are on file, all of them amateur.

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

1937 to 1953 shown · 12 results on record
1937
1938
1939
1948
1950
1951
1952
1953
Olympia 1st place 2nd place 3rd place Other
Pro Debut
1937
First Win
1939
Last Contest
1953

Known for

Mr Europe, which he won in 1939, and Mr Britain, which he won thirteen years later in 1952. He was runner-up at Mr Universe in 1950 and again in 1951, and at Mr Europe in 1953.

Early career

He was third at Mr Universe in 1948 and third at Mr Britain in 1951, and was runner-up at Mr Britain in 1950. He competed in the open class throughout, with appearances in the tall and medium-tall classes around 1950 and a masters entry in 1952. The record spans sixteen years and is interrupted by the war years.

All results

Every contest result on record for Oscar Heidenstam, 12 in all. Won by names the winner of the division Oscar Heidenstam competed in, and shows a dash where that winner cannot be pinned to one person in the database.

YearContestDivisionPlaceWon by
1953 Mr Europe Men's Open Bodybuilding #2 James Mathe
1952 Mr Britain Other Divisions #1 Winner
1951 Mr Britain Men's Open Bodybuilding #3 Dennis Stallard
1951 Mr Universe Other Divisions #2 Reg Park
1950 Mr Britain Men's Open Bodybuilding #2 Hubert Thomas
1950 Mr Universe Other Divisions #2 John Lee
1948 Mr Europe Men's Open Bodybuilding #4 Sylestre Lindberg
1948 Mr Universe Other Divisions #3 Steve Reeves
1948 Mr World Men's Open Bodybuilding #5 Steve Reeves
1939 Mr Europe Men's Open Bodybuilding #1 Winner
1938 Mr World Men's Open Bodybuilding #4 Emile Bonnet
1937 Mr Europe Men's Open Bodybuilding #8 Jacques Pasquet

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

Sources

Contest record from the Fitness Volt bodybuilding database. The database holds no death date for him and this page does not infer one, so nothing here should be read as a statement either way about a man born in 1911. No height or weight is held.

In 3 meetings, Oscar Heidenstam finished ahead of John Lee 2 times to 1.

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.

John Lee
2 ahead 1 behind

3 head-to-head meetings