Roger Walker is a Men's Open Bodybuilding competitor from Australia.
3 career wins
Roger Walker
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Career Record
- Total Results
- 17
- Wins
- 3
- Win Rate
- 17.6%
- Career
- 1972–1982
- Division
- Men's Open Bodybuilding
- 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
- Pro Debut
- 1972
- First Win
- 1973
- Olympia Debut
- 1977
- Last Contest
- 1982
| 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 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
All contests on record
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.
| Year | Contest | Division | Place | Won 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.
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.
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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.
Most-met rivals
Compare any two athletes →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.

