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5 career wins

Porter Cottrell

GenderMale
Born1962
Born inLouisville, Kentucky, United States
StatusRetired

Porter Cottrell is a Men's Open Bodybuilding competitor from the United States with a competitive record spanning 1992–1999.

About

Porter Cottrell is an IFBB American professional bodybuilder.

Championship record

Championship appearances

Counted from the same results table below: an appearance is one contest entered (in the years the Olympia also judged weight classes, one appearance can carry two placings), an Olympia title is the overall win in that division, and Top 3 counts first, second and third together. The last row is every professional contest on record for Porter Cottrell.

Mr. Olympia

2Appearances
0Titles
0Top 3

Arnold Classic

2Appearances
0Titles
1Top 3

All contests on record

24Contests
5Wins
9Top 3

Professional results

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

YearContestDivisionPlaceWon by
1999 Night of Champions Men's Open Bodybuilding #9 Paul Dillett
1999 Toronto Pro Men's Open Bodybuilding #3 Pavol Jablonicky
1998 Night of Champions Men's Open Bodybuilding #6 Ronnie Coleman
1998 San Francisco Pro Men's Open Bodybuilding #6 Kevin Levrone
1998 Toronto Pro Men's Open Bodybuilding #4 Ronnie Coleman
1996 Arnold Classic Men's Open Bodybuilding #8 Kevin Levrone
1996 San Jose Pro Invitational Men's Open Bodybuilding #10 Kevin Levrone
1994 Arnold Classic Men's Open Bodybuilding #3 Kevin Levrone
1994 Grand Prix England Men's Open Bodybuilding #9 Dorian Yates
1994 Grand Prix Germany Men's Open Bodybuilding #7 Dorian Yates
1994 Grand Prix Spain Men's Open Bodybuilding #5 Dorian Yates
1994 Mr. Olympia Men's Open Bodybuilding #5 Dorian Yates
1994 San Jose Pro Invitational Men's Open Bodybuilding #2 Kevin Levrone
1993 Chicago Pro Championships Men's Open Bodybuilding #1 Winner
1993 Night of Champions Men's Open Bodybuilding #1 Winner
1993 Pittsburgh Pro Invitational Men's Open Bodybuilding #1 Winner
1992 Chicago Pro Championships Men's Open Bodybuilding #1 Winner
1992 Grand Prix England Men's Open Bodybuilding #5 Dorian Yates
1992 Grand Prix Germany Men's Open Bodybuilding #4 Kevin Levrone
1992 Grand Prix Holland Men's Open Bodybuilding #7 Mohammed Benaziza
1992 Grand Prix Italy Men's Open Bodybuilding #5 Mohammed Benaziza
1992 Mr. Olympia Men's Open Bodybuilding #8 Dorian Yates
1992 Niagara Falls Pro Invitational Men's Open Bodybuilding #1 Winner
1992 Night of Champions Men's Open Bodybuilding #2 Kevin Levrone

Showing 15 of 24 professional results. Showing all 24 professional results.

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

Every professional season

1992 to 1999 shown · 24 professional results

Peak Year 1993 (3 wins)

Measured against Porter Cottrell’s own seasons, not against the field.

1992
1993
1994
1996
1998
1999
Olympia 1st place 2nd place 3rd place Other
Pro Debut
1992
Peak Year
1993
Last Contest
1999

Porter Cottrell at the Olympia, year by year

Porter Cottrell at the Mr. Olympia: no title, first appearance 1992. Source: Fitness Volt Bodybuilding Database.
Year Placement Division
1992 8 Men's Open Bodybuilding
1994 5 Men's Open Bodybuilding

Data updated

Physique benchmark

How Porter Cottrell measures up

Fat-free mass index turns the height and weight on this profile into one number for how much muscle a frame carries, so a shorter competitor is not flattered by a bodyweight comparison. The normalised figure adjusts it again to a standard height, which is the version worth ranking. Both assume the 6% body fat a competitor steps on stage at, because that is the only condition the recorded weight was taken in.

32.7FFMI
33.5Normalised FFMI
76thOf 316 measured men

The closest Olympia champion on that measure is Phil Heath, at 33.7.

What this rank is not. This database holds a height and a weight for just 463 athletes, and they are overwhelmingly the ones somebody bothered to measure: 74 of them hold an Olympia title. Almost every competitor on record carries no measurement at all. The pool also mixes every division and era together, from the lightweight women's classes to the open heavyweights, so it ranks size and nothing else. It says where Porter Cottrell sits among the athletes we hold measurements for, not among competitors.

Amateur and other shows not counted above

3 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
YearContestDivisionPlace
1991 Nationals Men's Bodybuilding (Light Heavyweight) #1
1989 Nationals Men's Bodybuilding (Light Heavyweight) #3
1988 Junior Nationals Men's Bodybuilding (Light Heavyweight) #1

In 16 meetings, Kevin Levrone finished ahead of Porter Cottrell 15 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.

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

High confidence 24 professional results, Well-verified source Updated September 30, 2026 Accurate?

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