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Paul Sutton is a Men's Open Bodybuilding competitor from the United Kingdom.

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12 career wins

Paul Sutton

GenderMale
StatusRetired
High confidence 24 recorded results, Historical/community source Updated August 14, 2026 Accurate?
Missing from this profile

No height, weight or birthdate on record.

Career Record

Total Results
24
Wins
12
Win Rate
50%
Career
2000–2019
Verified
Sources
3

Paul Sutton won the World Championships short class three times and the Mr Universe in 2006. He then won three more Universe titles in the masters class after turning fifty. He is British.

Win rate here is first-place finishes as a share of all 24 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

2000 to 2019 shown · 24 results on record

Peak Year 2002 (3 wins)

Measured against Paul Sutton’s own seasons, not against the field.

2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2009
2013
2014
2017
2018
2019
Olympia 1st place 2nd place 3rd place Other
Pro Debut
2000
First Win
2001
Peak Year
2002
Last Contest
2019

Known for

World Championships titles in 2001, 2002 and 2004, with European Championships titles in 2002 and 2004 and the British Championships in 2002. The Mr Universe short class followed in 2006.

The masters record is a second career: the Mr Universe masters title in 2013, then the over-fifty class in 2017, 2018 and 2019.

Early career

His record opens in 2000 with third at the Mr Universe and holds twenty-five contests to 2019. He was runner-up at the Mr Britain in 2002 and 2004 and third at the World Championships in 2003, 2006 and 2018.

All results

Every contest result on record for Paul Sutton, 24 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 Paul Sutton competed in, and shows a dash where that winner cannot be pinned to one person in the database.

YearContestDivisionPlaceWon by
2019 Mr Universe Other Divisions #1 Winner
2018 Mr Universe Other Divisions #1 Winner
2018 World Championships Other Divisions #3 Costantinos Vassiliou
2017 Mr Universe Other Divisions #1 Winner
2014 World Championships Other Divisions #2 Ian Hardy
2013 England Championships Other Divisions #1 Winner
2013 Mr Universe Other Divisions #1 Winner
2009 Universe - Pro Other Divisions #3 Alexej Netesanov
2006 Mr Universe Other Divisions #1 Winner
2006 World Championships Other Divisions #3 José Maria Forte Armengou
2005 Mr Universe Other Divisions #4 Charles Mario
2004 European Championships Other Divisions #1 Winner
2004 Mr Britain Other Divisions #2 Steven Thompson
2004 Mr Universe Other Divisions #7 Charles Mario
2004 World Championships Other Divisions #1 Winner
2003 World Championships Other Divisions #3 Pablo Delgado
2002 British Championships Men's Open Bodybuilding #1 Winner
2002 European Championships Other Divisions #1 Winner
2002 Mr Britain Other Divisions #2 Jason Corrick
2002 Mr Universe Other Divisions #5 Dennis Giusto
2002 World Championships Other Divisions #1 Winner
2001 Mr Universe Other Divisions #4 Kamal Elgargni
2001 World Championships Other Divisions #1 Winner
2000 Mr Universe Other Divisions #3 Alison Maria

Showing 15 of 24 recorded results. Showing all 24 recorded results.

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

Legacy

Sutton won world titles in his twenties and Universe titles in his fifties, in a country whose bodybuilding history is almost entirely unwritten. Twelve titles across twenty years and nothing published about any of them.

Sources

Competition placings on this page come from our own contest database and cover 2000 to 2019.

Five of his twelve wins are masters-class titles and are described as such above rather than counted with the open ones.

In 5 meetings, Paul Sutton finished ahead of Paul Lans 4 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.