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Mr USA 1976

Mr USA 1976 was held in USA. The Men's Open Bodybuilding title went to Joe Means.

Year
1976
Location
USA
Federation
AAU
Divisions
4
Competitors
14

Results by Division

All Contests

Mr USA 1976 Results

Joe Means Champion

1976 USA

Mr USA 1976 was held in USA. The Men's Open Bodybuilding title went to Joe Means.

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

Defending Open champion Clint Beyerle, who won in 1975, did not return.

About this show

Men's Open Bodybuilding, Men's Open Bodybuilding - Medium, Men's Open Bodybuilding - Short and Men's Open Bodybuilding - Tall were contested at the Mr USA 1976 in USA. 14 athletes competed.

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 Joe Means United States

Official scores are unavailable.

Men's Open Bodybuilding - Medium

Place Athlete Country
1st Dave Johns 3rd win here United States
2nd Joe Means United States
3rd C F Smith United States
4th Steve O'Neil United States
5th Sam Sanchez United States

Official scores are unavailable.

Men's Open Bodybuilding - Short

Place Athlete Country
1st Greg Silha First recorded win United States
2nd Lionel Gaubert United States
3rd James Gaubert United States
4th Robbie Gore United States

Official scores are unavailable.

Men's Open Bodybuilding - Tall

Place Athlete Country
1st Manuel Perry First recorded win United States
2nd Dan Tobol United States
3rd Gary Johnson United States
4th Shelton Leger United States
5th James Miller United States

Official scores are unavailable.

Complete Results updated March 12, 2026 Source: MuscleMemory

This edition in context

Competitors
14
Divisions
4
Size rank
27 of 38

The biggest field since 1975.

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.