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Best Men's Open Bodybuilding Bodybuilders of the 1960s

The Men's Open Bodybuilding competitors with the most contest wins during the 1960s, counted from our results archive.

Dennis Tinerino leads the 1960s in Men's Open Bodybuilding with 13 first-place finishes from 24 contests on record, 3 clear of Boyer Coe in second. Every first place in our archive counts the same here, regional shows included, so this board measures how often an athlete won rather than how big the shows were. For titles rather than volume, the Olympia winners list for this division is linked below.

The 1960s are closed. The order here changes only if a result from those years is added to the archive or corrected in it.

Rank Athlete Country Wins Shows Active Years
1 United States 13 24 1964 - 1969
2 United States 10 25 1964 - 1969
3 Cuba 10 16 1964 - 1969
4 United States 10 14 1964 - 1969
5 United States 10 13 1962 - 1968
6 United States 9 21 1960 - 1969
7 United States 9 11 1960 - 1966
8 United States 7 16 1960 - 1968
9 United States 7 15 1965 - 1969
10 Austria 7 10 1966 - 1969

About Men's Open Bodybuilding in the 1960s

This page ranks men's open bodybuilding competitors by how many contests they won during the 1960s. A win is any documented first-place finish in the division inside that ten-year span, and where two athletes are level on wins the one who entered more contests is placed higher.

The archive behind it covers pro and amateur competition, from regional shows to the Arnold Classic and the Olympia stage, and every show counts once. That is a deliberate choice and it has a consequence worth knowing: an athlete who won often on a busy regional schedule can finish above a champion who competed rarely. Where you want titles rather than volume, the Olympia winners list for this division is the page that holds them.

Frequently Asked Questions

Dennis Tinerino, with 13 first-place finishes from 24 recorded contests. That is the most of any men's open bodybuilding competitor in the 1960s in our archive. It counts contests won, not titles held, so it is not the same question as who was the division's champion.