Quincy Taylor
Quincy Taylor is an American bodybuilder who won the 2001 USA Championships and spent the following decade on the professional circuit, including two Mr. Olympia appearances.
Known for
The 2001 USA Championships, the win that made him a professional. His strongest professional results came in the middle of the next decade: second at the 2006 Europa Supershow, third there in 2005, and second at the Montreal Pro Championships in 2007 after taking third at the same show a year earlier.
Early career
He first appears in 1999, placing third at the North American Championships and competing at heavyweight and super-heavyweight before moving to the open class in 2002. Twenty-six results are on record across 1999 to 2010, seventeen of them professional. He competed at the Mr. Olympia in 2005 and 2007.
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 Quincy Taylor.
Mr. Olympia
Arnold Classic
All contests on record
Professional results
Every professional contest result on record for Quincy Taylor, 21 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 Quincy Taylor competed in, and shows a dash where that winner cannot be pinned to one person in the database.
| Year | Contest | Division | Place | Won by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Phoenix Pro | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #7 | Melvin Anthony |
| 2008 | Europa Supershow | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #16 | Toney Freeman |
| 2008 | Tampa Pro Championships | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #10 | Toney Freeman |
| 2007 | Atlantic City Pro | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #7 | Johnnie O. Jackson |
| 2007 | Europa Supershow | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #4 | Silvio Samuel Saviour |
| 2007 | Montreal Pro Championships | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #2 | Darrem Charles |
| 2007 | Mr. Olympia | Men's Open Bodybuilding | Unplaced | Jay Cutler |
| 2006 | Europa Supershow | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #2 | Toney Freeman |
| 2006 | Montreal Pro Championships | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #3 | Johnnie O. Jackson |
| 2005 | Charlotte Pro | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #5 | Branch Warren |
| 2005 | Europa Supershow | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #3 | Branch Warren |
| 2005 | Mr. Olympia | Men's Open Bodybuilding | Unplaced | Ronnie Coleman |
| 2004 | Florida Pro Xtreme Challenge | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #13 | Darrem Charles |
| 2004 | Night of Champions | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #11 | Melvin Anthony |
| 2003 | Arnold Classic | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #9 | Jay Cutler |
| 2003 | Ironman Pro Invitational | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #6 | Jay Cutler |
| 2003 | San Francisco Pro | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #7 | Jay Cutler |
| 2002 | Arnold Classic | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #9 | Jay Cutler |
| 2002 | Grand Prix Australia | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #8 | Chris Cormier |
| 2002 | Ironman Pro Invitational | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #5 | Chris Cormier |
| 2002 | San Francisco Pro | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #5 | Lee Priest |
Showing 15 of 21 professional results.
Where these results come from. Each contest in the table was recorded from a named source, and for Quincy Taylor 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
- Pro Debut
- 2002
- Olympia Debut
- 2005
- Last Contest
- 2010
Amateur and other shows not counted above
5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | USA Championships | Men's Bodybuilding (Super Heavyweight) | #1 |
| 2000 | Nationals | Men's Bodybuilding (Super Heavyweight) | #4 |
| 2000 | USA Championships | Men's Bodybuilding (Super Heavyweight) | #8 |
| 1999 | North American Championships | Men's Bodybuilding (Heavyweight) | #3 |
| 1999 | USA Championships | Men's Bodybuilding (Super Heavyweight) | #8 |
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Most-met rivals
Compare any two athletes →In 4 meetings, Jay Cutler finished ahead of Quincy Taylor 4 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.
Sources
Contest record from the Fitness Volt bodybuilding database. Height on record is 177 cm; no competition weight is held, so none is quoted here.
Win rate here is first-place finishes as a share of all 21 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.
No weight on record.

