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Nationals 1983

Nationals 1983 was held in USA. The Men's Open Bodybuilding - Heavyweight title went to Bob Paris.

Year
1983
Date
Nov 15, 1983
Location
USA
Federation
NPC
Divisions
7
Competitors
96

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Nationals 1983

Bob Paris Champion

1983 USA Nov 14, 1983

Nationals 1983 was held in USA. The Men's Open Bodybuilding - Heavyweight title went to Bob Paris.

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

Defending HeavyWeight champion Lee Haney, who won in 1982, did not return.

Top 3 Men's Open Bodybuilding - Heavyweight

1st
Bob Paris
United States
2nd
Rory Leidelmeyer
Rory Leidelmeyer
United States
3rd
Mike Christian
Mike Christian
United States

Nationals 1983 contested 7 divisions across 96 athletes, competitors from 2 countries. Bob Paris took Men's Open Bodybuilding - Heavyweight. 7 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 (95) - Netherlands (1)

Men's Open Bodybuilding - Heavyweight

Men's Open Bodybuilding - Lightheavyweight

Men's Open Bodybuilding - Lightweight

Men's Open Bodybuilding - Middleweight

Women's Bodybuilding - Heavyweight

Place Athlete Country
1st Lori Bowen (2) United States
2nd Leslie Koslow United States
3rd Sue Ann McKean United States
4th Lisa Elliot United States
5th Pillow United States

Official scores are unavailable.

Women's Bodybuilding - Lightweight

Place Athlete Country
1st Susan Roberts United States
2nd Stella Martinez United States
3rd Mae Mollica United States
4th Leslie Barber (2) United States
5th Theresa Hensley United States

Official scores are unavailable.

Women's Bodybuilding - Middleweight

Complete Results updated June 30, 2026 Source: MuscleMemory

This edition in context

Competitors
96
Divisions
7
Size rank
35 of 38

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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.