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World Pro Championships 1981

World Pro Championships 1981 was held in USA. The Men's Open Bodybuilding title went to Dennis Tinerino.

Year
1981
Date
Nov 15, 1981
Location
USA
Federation
IFBB
Divisions
2
Competitors
19

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World Pro Championships 1981

Dennis Tinerino Champion

1981 USA Nov 14, 1981

World Pro Championships 1981 was held in USA. The Men's Open Bodybuilding title went to Dennis Tinerino.

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

Defending champion Jusup Wilkosz, who won in 1980, did not return.

Top 3 Men's Open Bodybuilding

1st
Dennis Tinerino
Dennis Tinerino
United States
2nd
Roger Walker
Roger Walker
Australia
3rd
Tony Pearson
Tony Pearson
United States

World Pro Championships 1981 contested 2 divisions across 19 athletes, competitors from 5 countries. Dennis Tinerino took Men's Open Bodybuilding. 2 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 (15) - Australia (1) - Germany (1)

Men's Open Bodybuilding

Place Athlete Country
1st Dennis Tinerino 2nd win here United States
2nd Roger Walker Australia
3rd Tony Pearson United States
5th Hubert Metz Germany

Official scores are unavailable.

Women's Bodybuilding

Complete Results updated June 11, 2026 Source: MuscleMemory

This edition in context

Competitors
19
Divisions
2
Size rank
9 of 14

Past winners of this event

Winner of the headline division for each edition of this event on record.
Year Winner Division
2000 Ronnie Coleman Open
1985 Mary Roberts Open
1980 Jusup Wilkosz Open
1975 Bob Birdsong Open

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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, 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.