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Shigeru Sugita was a Men's Open Bodybuilding competitor from Japan. Shigeru Sugita has a verified height of 5'9" (175 cm) and a recorded contest weight of 190 lb (86 kg).
3 career wins
Shigeru Sugita
CountryJapan
GenderMale
DivisionMen's Open Bodybuilding
Born1947
DiedApril 13, 2025, aged 78
StatusRetired
Shigeru Sugita was a Men's Open Bodybuilding competitor from Japan with a competitive record spanning 1970–1985.
Across 9 recorded contest results, Shigeru Sugita had 3 first-place finishes (a 33.3% 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.
Shigeru Sugita, a bodybuilder from Japan, stands 5'9" (175 cm) tall and competed at a contest weight of around 190 lb (86 kg). He was born on January 26, 1947 and died on April 13, 2025, aged 78.
Career Record
- Total Results
- 9
- Wins
- 3
- Win Rate
- 33.3%
- Career
- 1970–1985
- Height
- 5'9" (175 cm)
- Weight
- 190 lb (86 kg)
- Lifespan
- 1947-2025 (aged 78)
- Division
- Men's Open Bodybuilding
- Country
- Japan
- Verified
- Sources
- 4
Every season on record
Olympia
1st place
2nd place
3rd place
Other
- Pro Debut
- 1970
- First Win
- 1972
- 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: 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 Shigeru Sugita sits among the athletes we hold measurements for, not among competitors.
All results
Every contest result on record for Shigeru Sugita, 9 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.
| Year | Contest | Division | Place | Won by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | Night of Champions | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #14 | Albert Beckles |
| 1981 | Mr International | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 1979 | Universe - Pro | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #4 | Bertil Fox |
| 1976 | Mr Universe | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 1975 | Mr Universe | Other Divisions | #2 | Ian Lawrence |
| 1973 | Mr Universe | Other Divisions | #2 | Chris Dickerson |
| 1972 | Mr Japan | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 1971 | Mr Japan | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #2 | Kenichi Suemitsu |
| 1970 | Mr Japan | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #3 | Sogaku Takemoto |
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.
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Most-met rivals
Compare any two athletes →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.
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