Steve Reeves
Steve Reeves was a Men's Open Bodybuilding competitor from the United States.
About
Stephen Lester Reeves was an American professional bodybuilder and actor. He was famous in the mid-1950s as a movie star in Italian-made sword-and-sandal films, playing muscular protagonists such as Hercules, Aeneas, and Sandokan. At the peak of his career, he was the highest-paid actor in Europe. Though best known for his portrayal of Hercules, he played the character only twice: in Hercules (1958), and in its 1959 sequel Hercules Unchained. By 1960, Reeves was ranked as the number-one box-office draw in 25 countries.
How Steve Reeves 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.
The closest Olympia champion on that measure is Jeremy Buendia, at 26.3, the same figure.
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 Steve Reeves sits among the athletes we hold measurements for, not among competitors.
Amateur and other shows not counted above
10 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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| Year | Contest | Division | Place |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | Mr Universe | Division not recorded (Tall) | #1 |
| 1949 | Mr USA | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #3 |
| 1948 | Mr Universe | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #2 |
| 1948 | Mr Universe | Division not recorded (Tall) | #1 |
| 1948 | Mr USA | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #2 |
| 1948 | Mr World | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #1 |
| 1947 | Mr America | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #1 |
| 1947 | Mr Pacific Coast | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #1 |
| 1947 | Mr Western America | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #1 |
| 1946 | Mr Pacific Coast | Division not recorded (Tall) | #1 |
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