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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).
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Pete Grymkowski, a bodybuilder from the United States, stands 5'10" (178 cm) tall.
Career Record
- Total Results
- 3
- Career
- 1978–1979
- 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.
No win rate is shown. With 3 recorded contest results 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.
Every professional season
Olympia
1st place
2nd place
3rd place
Other
- Pro Debut
- 1978
- 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.
Professional results
Every professional contest result on record for Pete Grymkowski, 3 in all. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
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.
Amateur and other shows not counted above
16 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.
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| Year | Contest | Division | Place |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | Mr America | Division not recorded (Tall) | #3 |
| 1977 | Mr America | Men's Bodybuilding (Heavyweight) | #1 |
| 1977 | Mr World | Men's Bodybuilding (Heavyweight) | #1 |
| 1973 | Mr America | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #2 |
| 1973 | Mr America | Division not recorded (Most Muscular) | #2 |
| 1972 | Junior Mr America | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #1 |
| 1972 | Junior Mr America | Division not recorded (Most Muscular) | #1 |
| 1972 | Mr America | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #2 |
| 1972 | Mr America | Division not recorded (Most Muscular) | #1 |
| 1971 | Junior Mr USA | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #1 |
| 1971 | Junior Mr USA | Division not recorded (Most Muscular) | #1 |
| 1971 | Mr America | Division not recorded (Most Muscular) | #5 |
| 1971 | Mr America | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #2 |
| 1970 | Junior Mr America | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #9 |
| 1970 | Junior Mr America | Division not recorded (Most Muscular) | #5 |
| 1970 | Mr Eastern America | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #1 |
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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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