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Steve Reeves was a Men's Open Bodybuilding competitor from the United States. Steve Reeves has a verified height of 6'1" (186 cm) and a recorded contest weight of 215 lb (98 kg).
7 career wins
Steve Reeves
CountryUnited States
GenderMale
DivisionMen's Open Bodybuilding
Born1926
DiedMay 1, 2000, aged 74
StatusRetired
Steve Reeves was a Men's Open Bodybuilding competitor from the United States with a competitive record spanning 1946–1950.
Across 10 recorded contest results, Steve Reeves had 7 first-place finishes (a 70% win rate).
Win rate here is first-place finishes as a share of all 10 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.
Steve Reeves, a bodybuilder from the United States, stands 6'1" (186 cm) tall and competed at a contest weight of around 215 lb (98 kg). He was born on January 21, 1926 and died on May 1, 2000, aged 74.
Career Record
- Total Results
- 10
- Wins
- 7
- Win Rate
- 70%
- Career
- 1946–1950
- Height
- 6'1" (186 cm)
- Weight
- 215 lb (98 kg)
- Lifespan
- 1926-2000 (aged 74)
- Division
- Men's Open Bodybuilding
- Country
- United States
- Verified
- Sources
- 5
Every season on record
Peak Year 1947 (3 wins)
Measured against Steve Reeves’s own seasons, not against the field.
Olympia
1st place
2nd place
3rd place
Other
- Pro Debut
- 1946
- Peak Year
- 1947
- Last Contest
- 1950
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.
Physique benchmark
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.
26.7FFMI
26.3Normalised FFMI
249thOf 316 measured men
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: 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 Steve Reeves sits among the athletes we hold measurements for, not among competitors.
All results
Every contest result on record for Steve Reeves, 10 in all. Won by names the winner of the division Steve Reeves competed in, and shows a dash where that winner cannot be pinned to one person in the database.
| Year | Contest | Division | Place | Won by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | Mr Universe | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 1949 | Mr USA | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #3 | John Grimek |
| 1948 | Mr Universe | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 1948 | Mr Universe | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #2 | John Grimek |
| 1948 | Mr USA | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #2 | Clarence Ross |
| 1948 | Mr World | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 1947 | Mr America | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 1947 | Mr Pacific Coast | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 1947 | Mr Western America | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 1946 | Mr Pacific Coast | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
Where these results come from. Each contest in the table was recorded from a named source, and for Steve Reeves 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 Steve Reeves 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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