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Mr America 1939

Mr America 1939 was held in USA. The Men's Open Bodybuilding - Medium title went to Herbert Marquart.

Year
1939
Location
USA
Federation
AAU
Divisions
3
Competitors
3

Results by Division

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Mr America 1939 Results

Herbert Marquart Champion

1939 USA

Mr America 1939 was held in USA. The Men's Open Bodybuilding - Medium title went to Herbert Marquart.

Medium confidence Historical/community source Updated September 1, 2026 Accurate?

Defending champion Bert Goodrich, who won in 1938, did not return.

About this show

The Mr America 1939 was held in USA. 3 divisions were judged, across Men's Open Bodybuilding - Medium, Men's Open Bodybuilding - Short and Men's Open Bodybuilding - Tall. 3 athletes competed.

Men's Open Bodybuilding - Medium

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

Place Athlete Country
1st Herbert Marquart First recorded win United States

Official scores are unavailable.

Men's Open Bodybuilding - Short

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

Place Athlete Country
1st Tony Terlazzo First recorded win United States

Official scores are unavailable.

Men's Open Bodybuilding - Tall

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

Place Athlete Country
1st Roland Essmaker First recorded win United States

Official scores are unavailable.

Complete Results updated March 12, 2026 Source: MuscleMemory

This edition in context

Competitors
3
Divisions
3
Size rank
62 of 62

The biggest field since 1938.

Past winners of this event

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 and competitor count show only when the source supplied them. A field left out means nothing was sourced for it, never a zero.
  • A date shows only where the source recorded the day of the show. Most historical listings give a year or a month and nothing finer, so those editions are dated by year alone rather than by a day we would have had to invent.
  • 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.