World Championships 1990
World Championships 1990 was held in USA. The Men's Open Bodybuilding - Junior title went to Pierre Van Der Westhuizen.
- Year
- 1990
- Date
- Nov 15, 1990
- Location
- USA
- Federation
- WABBA
- Divisions
- 12
- Competitors
- 84
Results by Division
| Division | Winners | Runner-up |
|---|---|---|
| Men's Open Bodybuilding - Junior | Pierre Van Der Westhuizen | Gavin Van Rensberg |
| Men's Open Bodybuilding - Medium | Peter Reid | Andreas Krebs |
| Men's Open Bodybuilding - Medium Tall | – | – |
| Men's Open Bodybuilding - Pro | Edouard Kawak , Charles Clairmonte , Sabine Wick | Samir Bannout |
| Men's Open Bodybuilding - Short | Robert Wall | Marcello Petocchi |
| Men's Open Bodybuilding - Tall | Terry Mitsos | Shaun Davis |
| Women's Bodybuilding - Pro | Gabriele Klug | Tania Panza |
| Women's Bodybuilding - Short | Helma Gohr , Tania Panza | Petra Engels (2) |
| Women's Bodybuilding - Tall | Janet Marchi (2) , Bernadette Price | Esther Hoyler |
| Women's Figure - Short | Claudia Mayrhofer | Cathy Simian |
| Women's Figure - Tall | Bronwyn O'Brien | Silvie Esmenjaud |
| Other Divisions - Masters | Peter Bosch | Don Mahoney |
World Championships 1990
World Championships 1990 was held in USA. The Men's Open Bodybuilding - Junior title went to Pierre Van Der Westhuizen.
Defending Figure Short champion Muriel Sevignon, who won in 1989, did not return.
Top 3 Men's Open Bodybuilding - Junior
World Championships 1990 contested 12 divisions across 84 athletes, 11 open and 1 age-restricted Masters, competitors from 12 countries. Pierre Van Der Westhuizen took Men's Open Bodybuilding - Junior. 8 divisions crowned a champion; each is judged independently. No round scores were published for this event, so placings are shown without them.
Masters divisions 1
Men's Open Bodybuilding - Junior
| Place | Athlete | Country |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | Pierre Van Der Westhuizen First recorded win | United States |
| 2nd | Gavin Van Rensberg | United States |
| 3rd | Jezamen Ball | United States |
| 4th | Peter Bourtzouklis | United States |
Official scores are unavailable.
Men's Open Bodybuilding - Medium
| Place | Athlete | Country |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | Peter Reid | United Kingdom |
| 2nd | Andreas Krebs | United States |
| 3rd | Mustafa Mohammad | Jordan |
| 4th | Giorgio Maggi | United States |
| 5th | Rodolphe Fernandez | United States |
| 6th | Wayne McReady | United States |
| 7th | Barry Whitnell | Australia |
Official scores are unavailable.
Men's Open Bodybuilding - Medium Tall
Only the winner of this division was recorded by the source. The full placings are not in the database.
| Place | Athlete | Country |
|---|---|---|
| 6th | Mohamed Mohsen | United States |
Official scores are unavailable.
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 - Pro
| Place | Athlete | Country |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | Sabine Wick | United States |
| 1st | Edouard Kawak | United States |
| 1st | Charles Clairmonte | United Kingdom |
| 2nd | Samir Bannout | Lebanon |
| 2nd | André Maille | Canada |
| 3rd | Tamara Konz | Germany |
| 3rd | Gary Lewer | Australia |
| 4th | Shaun Davis | United Kingdom |
| 4th | Monika Debatin | Germany |
Official scores are unavailable.
Men's Open Bodybuilding - Short
| Place | Athlete | Country |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | Robert Wall Title defense, 2nd win here | United Kingdom |
| 2nd | Marcello Petocchi | United States |
| 2nd | Monika Debatin | Germany |
| 3rd | Max Pangerl | United States |
| 4th | Cameron Rees | United States |
| 4th | Karin Habisreuther | United States |
| 6th | Barbara Welter | United States |
| 7th | Debbie Pickford | Australia |
Official scores are unavailable.
Men's Open Bodybuilding - Tall
| Place | Athlete | Country |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | Terry Mitsos First recorded win | United States |
| 2nd | Shaun Davis | United Kingdom |
| 3rd | Rudiger Schmitz | Germany |
| 4th | Sue Rodger Withers | United States |
| 4th | Fausto Ascani | - |
| 5th | Manfred Salchner | United States |
| 5th | Rina Howard | South Africa |
| 6th | Jan Van Roy | Belgium |
| 6th | Vivienne Hill | Australia |
| 7th | Les Rudolf | Australia |
| 8th | Lionel Kearns | United States |
| 9th | Brent Hamilton | United States |
| 10th | Suliman Ben Said | United States |
Official scores are unavailable.
Women's Bodybuilding - Pro
| Place | Athlete | Country |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | Gabriele Klug First recorded win | United States |
| 2nd | Francesca Petitjean | Canada |
| 2nd | Tania Panza | Italy |
| 3rd | Kheira Ghilardi (2) | United States |
| 4th | Ella Hank (2) | United States |
| 5th | Nancy Long | United States |
Official scores are unavailable.
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.
Women's Bodybuilding - Short
| Place | Athlete | Country |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | Tania Panza | Italy |
| 1st | Helma Gohr | United States |
| 2nd | Petra Engels (2) | United States |
| 3rd | Irene Nickole | Australia |
| 3rd | Helena Saladrigas (2) | United States |
| 4th | Michele Lucas | United Kingdom |
| 5th | Deborah Compton | Australia |
| 5th | Marie-Paule Giraudeau | France |
| 6th | Lucette Daulcle | France |
| 7th | Kayoko Nakano | United States |
| 8th | Mia Cosimini | United States |
| 9th | Keiko Morimoto | United States |
| 10th | Shimono Yuko | United States |
Official scores are unavailable.
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.
Women's Bodybuilding - Tall
| Place | Athlete | Country |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | Bernadette Price | United Kingdom |
| 1st | Janet Marchi (2) | - |
| 2nd | Monica Bozicevich | Italy |
| 2nd | Esther Hoyler | United States |
| 3rd | Michelle Goodier | United States |
| 3rd | Christine Ziegler | Germany |
| 4th | Rita Souza | United States |
Official scores are unavailable.
Women's Figure - Short
| Place | Athlete | Country |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | Claudia Mayrhofer First recorded win | United States |
| 2nd | Cathy Simian | United States |
| 3rd | Jackie McKnight | Australia |
| 4th | Judy Green | Australia |
Official scores are unavailable.
Women's Figure - Tall
| Place | Athlete | Country |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | Bronwyn O'Brien First recorded win | United States |
| 2nd | Silvie Esmenjaud | France |
| 3rd | Stephanie Wehr | United States |
| 4th | Jeanette Harper | Australia |
| 5th | Donna Gunther | United States |
| 6th | Suzanne Duzeman | United States |
| 7th | Judy Campbell | Australia |
| 8th | Elizabeth Evans | Australia |
| 9th | Vicki Nicholson | United States |
Official scores are unavailable.
Masters divisions
Age-graded classes, judged separately from the open divisions above.
Other Divisions - Masters Men
| Place | Athlete | Country |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | Peter Bosch | Netherlands |
| 2nd | Don Mahoney | United States |
| 3rd | Doug Powell | - |
| 4th | Vincenzo Carruba | United States |
| 5th | George Tabban | Australia |
| 6th | Willie Van Der Merine | United States |
Official scores are unavailable.
Complete Results updated June 11, 2026 Source: MuscleMemory
This edition in context
- Competitors
- 84
- Divisions
- 12
- Size rank
- 27 of 43
The biggest field since 1989.
Past winners of this event
| Year | Winner | Division |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Danni Teresa | Bodybuilding |
| 1991 | Rosana Marrone | Figure |
| 1988 | Beate Plank | Figure |
| 1986 | Marie Mahabir | Open |
| 1984 | Thierry Pastel | Open |
| 1978 | Bridget Pasquill | Open |
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.