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Rory Leidelmeyer is a Men's Open Bodybuilding competitor from the United States. Rory Leidelmeyer has a verified height of 5'11" (180 cm) and a recorded contest weight of 215 lb (98 kg).

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2 career wins

Rory Leidelmeyer

GenderMale
Born1958
StatusRetired
High confidence 9 recorded results, Well-verified source Updated August 9, 2026 Accurate?

Rory Leidelmeyer is a Men's Open Bodybuilding competitor from the United States with a competitive record spanning 1979–1994.

Across 9 recorded contest results, Rory Leidelmeyer has 2 first-place finishes (a 22.2% win rate).

Win rate here is first-place finishes as a share of all 9 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.

Rory Leidelmeyer, a bodybuilder from the United States, stands 5'11" (180 cm) tall and competed at a contest weight of around 215 lb (98 kg). He was born in 1958.

Career Record

Total Results
9
Wins
2
Win Rate
22.2%
Career
1979–1994
Height
5'11" (180 cm)
Weight
215 lb (98 kg)
Born
1958
Country
United States
Verified
Sources
4

Every season on record

1979 to 1994 shown · 9 results on record
1979
1980
1981
1983
1984
1986
1987
1988
1994
Olympia 1st place 2nd place 3rd place Other
Pro Debut
1979
First Win
1980
Last Contest
1994

About

Rory Leidelmeyer is an American bodybuilder who competed in the 1970s and 1980s. He is a former Mr. America and trained former football player Tony Mandarich. He also appeared in the Shaquille O'Neal film Kazaam (1996).

Physique benchmark

How Rory Leidelmeyer 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.

28.3FFMI
28.3Normalised FFMI
195thOf 316 measured men

The closest Olympia champion on that measure is Danny Hester, at 28.1.

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 Rory Leidelmeyer sits among the athletes we hold measurements for, not among competitors.

All results

Every contest result on record for Rory Leidelmeyer, 9 in all. Won by names the winner of the division Rory Leidelmeyer competed in, and shows a dash where that winner cannot be pinned to one person in the database.

YearContestDivisionPlaceWon by
1994 Nationals Men's Open Bodybuilding #14 Paul DeMayo
1988 Mr America Other Divisions #1 Winner
1987 USA Championships Men's Open Bodybuilding #9 Mike Quinn
1986 Nationals Men's Open Bodybuilding #6 Gary Strydom
1984 Nationals Men's Open Bodybuilding #5 Mike Christian
1983 Nationals Men's Open Bodybuilding #2 Bob Paris
1981 Mr America Men's Open Bodybuilding #2 Tim Belknap
1980 Mr California Other Divisions #1 Winner
1979 Mr Los Angeles Men's Open Bodybuilding #2 Les Galvin

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

Only 2 head-to-head meetings on record so far, with Mike Quinn ahead 2 to 0 - too thin to call a rivalry yet.

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.

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