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Shigeru Sugita

CountryJapan
GenderMale
Born1947
DiedApril 13, 2025, aged 78
StatusRetired

Shigeru Sugita was a Men's Open Bodybuilding competitor from Japan with a competitive record spanning 1979–1985.

Professional results

Every professional contest result on record for Shigeru Sugita, 2 in all. Won by names the winner of the division Shigeru Sugita competed in, and shows a dash where that winner cannot be pinned to one person in the database.

YearContestDivisionPlaceWon by
1985 Night of Champions Men's Open Bodybuilding #14 Albert Beckles
1979 Universe - Pro Men's Open Bodybuilding #4 Bertil Fox

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

Every professional season

1979 to 1985 shown · 2 professional results
1979
1985
Olympia 1st place 2nd place 3rd place Other
Pro Debut
1979
Last Contest
1985
Physique benchmark

How Shigeru Sugita 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.

26.5FFMI
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: 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 Shigeru Sugita sits among the athletes we hold measurements for, not among competitors.

Amateur and other shows not counted above

7 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.

Show the list
YearContestDivisionPlace
1981 Mr International Men's Bodybuilding (Middleweight) #1
1976 Mr Universe Division not recorded (Short) #1
1975 Mr Universe Division not recorded (Short) #2
1973 Mr Universe Division not recorded (Short) #2
1972 Mr Japan Men's Open Bodybuilding #1
1971 Mr Japan Men's Open Bodybuilding #2
1970 Mr Japan Men's Open Bodybuilding #3

Only 2 head-to-head meetings on record so far, with Albert Beckles 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.

No win rate is shown. With 2 recorded contest results on file, a single placing would move the figure by twenty points or more, so the percentage would describe how much of this career the database holds rather than anything about the athlete. The counts above are neither rounded nor capped.

High confidence 2 professional results, Well-verified source Updated September 30, 2026 Accurate?

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