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Roger Walker is a Men's Open Bodybuilding competitor from Australia.

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3 career wins

Roger Walker

CountryAustralia
GenderMale
StatusRetired
High confidence 17 recorded results, Well-verified source Updated August 14, 2026 Accurate?
Missing from this profile

No height, weight or birthdate on record.

Career Record

Total Results
17
Wins
3
Win Rate
17.6%
Career
1972–1982
Country
Australia
Verified
Sources
8

Roger Walker was third at the 1979 Mr. Olympia and competed at six of them. He was Australian and won the Universe heavyweight class in 1976.

Win rate here is first-place finishes as a share of all 17 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

1972 to 1982 shown · 17 results on record
1972
1973
1974
1975
1976
1977
1978
1979
1980
1981
1982
Olympia 1st place 2nd place 3rd place Other
Pro Debut
1972
First Win
1973
Olympia Debut
1977
Last Contest
1982
Roger Walker Olympia Career: 0 title(s). First appeared at the Olympia in 1977 and placed 4. Source: Fitness Volt Bodybuilding Database.
Year Placement Division
1977 4 Men's Open Bodybuilding
1978 5 Men's Open Bodybuilding
1979 3 Men's Open Bodybuilding
1980 6 Men's Open Bodybuilding
1981 10 Men's Open Bodybuilding
1982 16 Men's Open Bodybuilding

Data updated

Known for

Six consecutive Mr. Olympia appearances from 1977 to 1982, with fourth in 1977, fifth in 1978 and third in 1979. Very few competitors from outside the United States were in that lineup at all in those years.

The amateur record is short and strong: Mr Australia in 1973, the Asian Amateur Championships tall class in 1975 and the Universe heavyweight class in 1976, with a runner-up finish at the Universe the year before.

Early career

His record opens in 1972 with third at the Mr Britain and closes in 1982. Seventeen contests in ten years.

Championship record

Championship appearances

Counted from the same results table below: an appearance is one recorded placing at that series, a title is a first place, and Top 3 counts first, second and third together. The last row is every contest on record for Roger Walker, amateur shows included.

Mr. Olympia

9Appearances
0Titles
2Top 3

All contests on record

17Contests
3Wins
9Top 3

All results

Every contest result on record for Roger Walker, 17 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 Roger Walker competed in, and shows a dash where that winner cannot be pinned to one person in the database.

YearContestDivisionPlaceWon by
1982 Mr. Olympia Men's Open Bodybuilding #16 Chris Dickerson
1981 Mr. Olympia Men's Open Bodybuilding #10 Franco Columbu
1981 Universe - Pro Men's Open Bodybuilding #2 Robby Robinson
1981 World Pro Championships Men's Open Bodybuilding #2 Dennis Tinerino
1980 Mr. Olympia Men's Open Bodybuilding #6 Arnold Schwarzenegger
1979 Mr. Olympia Men's Open Bodybuilding #3 Frank Zane
1979 Olympia Other Divisions #3 Mike Mentzer
1978 Olympia Other Divisions #5 Robby Robinson
1978 Mr. Olympia Men's Open Bodybuilding #5 Frank Zane
1977 Olympia Other Divisions #4 Robby Robinson
1977 Mr. Olympia Men's Open Bodybuilding #4 Frank Zane
1976 Universe Other Divisions #1 Winner
1975 Asian Amateur Championships Other Divisions #1 Winner
1975 Universe Other Divisions #2 Ken Waller
1974 Universe Other Divisions #4 Lou Ferrigno
1973 Mr Australia Men's Open Bodybuilding #1 Winner
1972 Mr Britain Men's Open Bodybuilding #3 Paul Grant

Showing 15 of 17 recorded results. Showing all 17 recorded results.

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

Legacy

An Olympia bronze in 1979 puts Walker among the best in the world in the years just before the sport became an American story told about Americans. Australian bodybuilding of that period has essentially no written record.

Sources

Competition placings on this page come from our own contest database and cover 1972 to 1982.

Some contests appear twice in the table below because the same result was recorded under two division labels. They are single contests.

In 5 meetings, Frank Zane finished ahead of Roger Walker 5 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.