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Richard Baldwin is a Men's Open Bodybuilding competitor from the United States. Richard Baldwin has a verified height of 5'8" (173 cm) and a recorded contest weight of 185 lb (84 kg).

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10 career wins

Richard Baldwin

GenderMale
Born1939
StatusRetired
High confidence 25 recorded results, Well-verified source Updated August 14, 2026 Accurate?

Richard Baldwin is a Men's Open Bodybuilding competitor from the United States with a competitive record spanning 1971–1996.

Across 25 recorded contest results, Richard Baldwin has 10 first-place finishes (a 40% win rate).

Win rate here is first-place finishes as a share of all 25 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.

Richard Baldwin, a bodybuilder from the United States, stands 5'8" (173 cm) tall and competed at a contest weight of around 185 lb (84 kg). He was born on September 13, 1939 and is 86 years old.

Career Record

Total Results
25
Wins
10
Win Rate
40%
Career
1971–1996
Height
5'8" (173 cm)
Weight
185 lb (84 kg)
Age
86
Country
United States
Verified
Sources
4

Every season on record

1971 to 1996 shown · 25 results on record

Peak Year 1975 (2 wins)

Measured against Richard Baldwin’s own seasons, not against the field.

1971
1972
1973
1974
1975
1976
1977
1978
1979
1980
1984
1985
1988
1996
Olympia 1st place 2nd place 3rd place Other
Pro Debut
1971
Peak Year
1975
Last Contest
1996
Physique benchmark

How Richard Baldwin 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.

26.4FFMI
26.8Normalised FFMI
233rdOf 316 measured men

The closest Olympia champion on that measure is Jeremy Buendia, at 26.3.

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: 73 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 Richard Baldwin sits among the athletes we hold measurements for, not among competitors.

All results

Every contest result on record for Richard Baldwin, 25 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 Richard Baldwin competed in, and shows a dash where that winner cannot be pinned to one person in the database.

YearContestDivisionPlaceWon by
1996 Masters Nationals Men's Open Bodybuilding #2 Mark Johnson
1988 Southern States Men's Open Bodybuilding #1 Winner
1985 USA Championships Men's Open Bodybuilding #4 Sean Jenkins
1984 Nationals Men's Open Bodybuilding #11 John Hnatyschak
1980 Mr America Men's Open Bodybuilding #1 Winner
1980 World Amateur Championships Men's Open Bodybuilding #2 Jorma Raty
1979 Mr America Other Divisions #8 Ray Mentzer
1979 World Amateur Championships Men's Open Bodybuilding #2 Roy Duval
1978 Mr America Other Divisions #3 Tony Pearson
1978 Mr Florida Other Divisions #1 Winner
1978 Mr USA Other Divisions #1 Winner
1977 Mr Florida Men's Open Bodybuilding #2 Mike Arnold
1977 Mr USA Other Divisions #3 C F Smith
1977 Northern Hemisphere Men's Open Bodybuilding #1 Winner
1976 Mr America Other Divisions #4 Dave Johns
1975 Collegiate Mr USA Men's Open Bodybuilding #1 Winner
1975 Mr Southeastern USA Men's Open Bodybuilding #1 Winner
1974 Mr Florida Men's Open Bodybuilding #2 Mike Richard
1974 Mr USA Other Divisions #3 Dave Johns
1973 Junior Mr USA Men's Open Bodybuilding #7 Paul Hill
1973 Mr All South Men's Open Bodybuilding #1 Winner
1972 Collegiate Mr America Men's Open Bodybuilding #5 Ellington Darden
1972 Mr Texas Men's Open Bodybuilding #1 Winner
1971 Mr Southern States Men's Open Bodybuilding #1 Winner
1971 Mr Texas Men's Open Bodybuilding #3 Bob Harrington

Showing 15 of 25 recorded results. Showing all 25 recorded results.

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

In 3 meetings, Billy Arlen finished ahead of Richard Baldwin 2 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.