Paul Sutton is a Men's Open Bodybuilding competitor from the United Kingdom.
12 career wins
Paul Sutton
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Career Record
- Total Results
- 24
- Wins
- 12
- Win Rate
- 50%
- Career
- 2000–2019
- Division
- Men's Open Bodybuilding
- Country
- United Kingdom
- 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
Peak Year 2002 (3 wins)
Measured against Paul Sutton’s own seasons, not against the field.
- 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.
| Year | Contest | Division | Place | Won 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.
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.
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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.
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.
Most-met rivals
Compare any two athletes →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.

