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Best Men's Open Bodybuilding Bodybuilders of the 1970s

The Men's Open Bodybuilding competitors with the most contest wins during the 1970s, counted from our results archive.

Robby Robinson leads the 1970s in Men's Open Bodybuilding with 18 first-place finishes from 25 contests on record, 6 clear of Ed Corney 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 1970s 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 18 25 1974 - 1979
2 United States 12 35 1970 - 1979
3 United States 11 30 1970 - 1979
4 United States 11 14 1975 - 1979
5 United Kingdom 11 12 1970 - 1979
6 United States 10 32 1971 - 1979
7 United States 10 18 1970 - 1979
8 United States 10 15 1970 - 1977
9 United States 10 13 1976 - 1979
10 Barbados 9 21 1970 - 1979

About Men's Open Bodybuilding in the 1970s

This page ranks men's open bodybuilding competitors by how many contests they won during the 1970s. 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

Robby Robinson, with 18 first-place finishes from 25 recorded contests. That is the most of any men's open bodybuilding competitor in the 1970s in our archive. It counts contests won, not titles held, so it is not the same question as who was the division's champion.