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Mr USA 1957

Mr USA 1957 was held in USA. The Men's Open Bodybuilding co-winners were Bob Shealey and Ray Schaefer.

Year
1957
Location
USA
Divisions
2
Competitors
8

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Mr USA 1957 Results

Ray Schaefer Champion

1957 USA

Mr USA 1957 was held in USA. The Men's Open Bodybuilding title went to Ray Schaefer.

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

Defending champion Bill Pearl, who won in 1956, did not return.

About this show

Men's Open Bodybuilding were contested at the Mr USA 1957 in USA. 8 athletes competed.

Top 3 Men's Open Bodybuilding

1st
Dick DuBois
Dick DuBois
United States
2nd
Reg Lewis
Reg Lewis
United States
3rd
Vince Gironda
United States

Multiple class winners. This division was recorded without its weight classes, so several athletes share first place - each won a different class. These placements are not a single ranking and no overall champion can be identified from them.

Men's Open Bodybuilding

Our source records 2 athletes in first place for this division, which cannot all be right. The placings below are shown exactly as recorded, and this division is being checked against the official scorecard.

Place Athlete Country
1st Ray Schaefer United States
1st Bob Shealey United States

Official scores are unavailable.

Men's Open Bodybuilding

Complete Results updated March 12, 2026 Source: MuscleMemory

This edition in context

Competitors
8
Divisions
2
Size rank
33 of 38

The biggest field since 1949.

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.