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Pete Grymkowski is a Men's Open Bodybuilding competitor from the United States. Pete Grymkowski has a verified height of 5'10" (178 cm).
8 career wins
Pete Grymkowski
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Pete Grymkowski, a bodybuilder from the United States, stands 5'10" (178 cm) tall.
Career Record
- Total Results
- 19
- Wins
- 8
- Win Rate
- 42.1%
- Career
- 1970–1979
- Height
- 5'10" (178 cm)
- Division
- Men's Open Bodybuilding
- Country
- United States
- Verified
- Sources
- 2
Pete Grymkowski won the Mr America and Mr World heavyweight titles in 1977, and a few years later bought Gold's Gym. The second thing shaped the sport considerably more than the first.
Win rate here is first-place finishes as a share of all 19 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 1972 (3 wins)
Measured against Pete Grymkowski’s own seasons, not against the field.
Olympia
1st place
2nd place
3rd place
Other
- Pro Debut
- 1970
- Peak Year
- 1972
- Last Contest
- 1979
Known for
1977 is the competitive peak: the heavyweight class at both the Mr America and the Mr World. Before that he had won Mr Eastern America in 1970, the Junior Mr USA in 1971 and the Junior Mr America in 1972, and he was Mr America runner-up three years running from 1971 to 1973.
He was also a repeat Most Muscular winner, taking that award at the Junior Mr USA, the Junior Mr America and the Mr America. In an era judged on symmetry as much as size, that title said something specific about how he looked.
Early career
His recorded career runs from 1970 to 1979 and ends with third at the Pittsburgh Pro Invitational. Ten years, nineteen contests, eight wins.
What followed is why the name survives. Grymkowski became one of the owners of Gold's Gym at the end of the 1970s and spent decades building it from a single Venice gym into an international chain.
All results
Every contest result on record for Pete Grymkowski, 19 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 Pete Grymkowski 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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| 1979 | Florida Pro Invitational | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #5 | Mike Mentzer |
| 1979 | Pittsburgh Pro Invitational | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #3 | Robby Robinson |
| 1978 | Professional World Cup | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #4 | Robby Robinson |
| 1977 | Mr America | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 1977 | Mr America | Other Divisions | #3 | Manuel Perry |
| 1977 | Mr World | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 1973 | Mr America | Other Divisions | #2 | Leon Brown |
| 1973 | Mr America | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #2 | Jim Morris |
| 1972 | Junior Mr America | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 1972 | Junior Mr America | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 1972 | Mr America | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 1972 | Mr America | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #2 | Steve Michalik |
| 1971 | Junior Mr USA | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 1971 | Junior Mr USA | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 1971 | Mr America | Other Divisions | #5 | Charles Collras |
| 1971 | Mr America | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #2 | Casey Viator |
| 1970 | Junior Mr America | Other Divisions | #5 | Chris Dickerson |
| 1970 | Junior Mr America | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #9 | Chris Dickerson |
| 1970 | Mr Eastern America | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
Showing 15 of 19 recorded results.
Where these results come from. Each contest in the table was recorded from a named source, and for Pete Grymkowski 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
Most competitors of his era are remembered, if at all, for a placing. Grymkowski is remembered by anyone who has trained in a Gold's Gym anywhere in the world, which is a different and much larger kind of footprint.
Sources
Competition placings on this page come from our own contest database and cover his record from 1970 to 1979.
His involvement in Gold's Gym is not held in our database and is stated from public record. We have not traced it to a primary source.
Most-met rivals
Compare any two athletes →In 3 meetings, Robby Robinson finished ahead of Pete Grymkowski 3 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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