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Junior Mr America 1957

Junior Mr America 1957 was held in USA. The Men's Open Bodybuilding title went to Melesio Villegas.

Year
1957
Date
Jan 1, 1957
Location
USA
Federation
AAU
Divisions
2
Competitors
5

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Junior Mr America 1957

Melesio Villegas Champion

1957 USA Dec 31, 1956

Junior Mr America 1957 was held in USA. The Men's Open Bodybuilding title went to Melesio Villegas.

Medium confidence Historical/community source Updated August 8, 2026 Accurate?

Defending champion Ray Schaefer, who won in 1956, did not return.

Junior Mr America 1957 contested 2 divisions across 5 athletes, competitors from 2 countries. Melesio Villegas took Men's Open Bodybuilding. 2 divisions crowned a champion; each is judged independently. No round scores were published for this event, so placings are shown without them.

Best represented United States (4) - Mexico (1)

Men's Open Bodybuilding

Only the winner of this division was recorded by the source. The full placings are not in the database.

Place Athlete Country
1st Melesio Villegas First recorded win Mexico

Official scores are unavailable.

Men's Open Bodybuilding

Place Athlete Country
1st Jim Dugger First recorded win United States
2nd Gail Crick United States
3rd Melesio Villegas Mexico
4th John Knight United States
5th Sam Griffiths United States

Official scores are unavailable.

Complete Results updated March 12, 2026 Source: MuscleMemory

This edition in context

Competitors
5
Divisions
2
Size rank
44 of 51

The biggest field since 1954.

Past winners of this event

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What this page holds

The placings as recorded, and nothing past them

This page lists the divisions and finishing order held for this contest, with the source named on it wherever one was recorded. It reports what was published. It does not re-judge the show, and it does not reconcile disagreements between sources.

  • Score and bodyweight columns appear only for divisions where those figures exist in the data. A division without them was recorded as placings only, not as a show that gave no scores.
  • Where the record has two athletes sharing a place, both are listed. A tie is never broken to produce a single winner.
  • Venue, federation, date and competitor count show only when the source supplied them. A field left out means nothing was sourced for it, never a zero.
  • A contest with no results has either not taken place yet or has no placements published. Check the status line above the results to tell which.