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Rory Leidelmeyer

GenderMale
Born1958
StatusRetired

Rory Leidelmeyer is a Men's Open Bodybuilding competitor from the United States.

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: 74 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.

Amateur and other shows not counted above

9 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.

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YearContestDivisionPlace
1994 Nationals Men's Bodybuilding (Heavyweight) #14
1988 Mr America Division not recorded (Tall) #1
1987 USA Championships Men's Bodybuilding (Heavyweight) #9
1986 Nationals Men's Bodybuilding (Heavyweight) #6
1984 Nationals Men's Bodybuilding (Heavyweight) #5
1983 Nationals Men's Bodybuilding (Heavyweight) #2
1981 Mr America Men's Bodybuilding (Light Heavyweight) #2
1980 Mr California Division not recorded (Tall) #1
1979 Mr Los Angeles Men's Open Bodybuilding #2

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.

Medium confidence Well-verified source Updated September 30, 2026 Accurate?

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