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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.
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.
Professional results
Every professional contest result on record for Paul Sutton, 1 in all. 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.
| Year | Contest | Division | Place | Won by |
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| 2009 | Universe - Pro | Division not recorded (Professional) | #3 | Alexej Netesanov |
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.
Amateur and other shows not counted above
23 results from amateur shows and other contests this archive does not class as professional. Every total on this page covers the professional career only, so these are listed here but never counted, and they have no contest page.
Show the list
| Year | Contest | Division | Place |
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| 2019 | Mr Universe | Division not recorded (Masters 50+) | #1 |
| 2018 | Mr Universe | Division not recorded (Masters 50+) | #1 |
| 2018 | World Championships | Division not recorded (Masters 50+) | #3 |
| 2017 | Mr Universe | Division not recorded (Masters 50+) | #1 |
| 2014 | World Championships | Division not recorded (Masters 40+) | #2 |
| 2013 | England Championships | Division not recorded (Masters 40+) | #1 |
| 2013 | Mr Universe | Division not recorded (Masters 40+) | #1 |
| 2006 | Mr Universe | Division not recorded (Short) | #1 |
| 2006 | World Championships | Division not recorded (Short) | #3 |
| 2005 | Mr Universe | Division not recorded (Short) | #4 |
| 2004 | European Championships | Division not recorded (Short) | #1 |
| 2004 | Mr Britain | Division not recorded (Short) | #2 |
| 2004 | Mr Universe | Division not recorded (Short) | #7 |
| 2004 | World Championships | Division not recorded (Short) | #1 |
| 2003 | World Championships | Division not recorded (Short) | #3 |
| 2002 | British Championships | Men's Bodybuilding (Light Heavyweight) | #1 |
| 2002 | European Championships | Division not recorded (Short) | #1 |
| 2002 | Mr Britain | Division not recorded (Short) | #2 |
| 2002 | Mr Universe | Division not recorded (Short) | #5 |
| 2002 | World Championships | Division not recorded (Short) | #1 |
| 2001 | Mr Universe | Division not recorded (Short) | #4 |
| 2001 | World Championships | Division not recorded (Short) | #1 |
| 2000 | Mr Universe | Division not recorded (Short) | #3 |
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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.
Most-met rivals
Compare any two athletes →In 3 meetings, Paul Sutton and Vincente Santamaria are dead even, finishing ahead 1 times apiece.
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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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.
No win rate is shown. With 1 recorded contest result on file, a single placing would move the figure by twenty points or more, so the percentage would describe how much of this career the database holds rather than anything about the athlete. The counts above are neither rounded nor capped.
Missing from this profile
No height, weight or birthdate on record.