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World Pro Championships 1985

World Pro Championships 1985 was held in USA. The Men's Open Bodybuilding title went to Mary Roberts.

Year
1985
Date
Nov 15, 1985
Location
USA
Federation
IFBB
Divisions
2
Competitors
18

Results by Division

Division Winner Runner-up
Men's Open Bodybuilding Mary Roberts
Women's Bodybuilding Tina Plakinger
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World Pro Championships 1985

Mary Roberts Champion

1985 USA Nov 14, 1985

World Pro Championships 1985 was held in USA. The Men's Open Bodybuilding title went to Mary Roberts.

Medium confidence Historical/community source Updated August 13, 2026 Accurate?

2-time winner Albert Beckles, who won in 1984, did not return.

World Pro Championships 1985 contested 2 divisions across 18 athletes, competitors from 6 countries. Mary Roberts took Men's Open Bodybuilding. No round scores were published for this event, so placings are shown without them.

Best represented United States (12) - Canada (2) - France (1)

Men's Open Bodybuilding

Place Athlete Country
1st Mary Roberts First recorded win France
3rd Vera Bendel Germany
4th Deanna Panting Canada
7th Gladys Portugues United States
8th Dawn Marie Gnaegi United States
12th Carolyn Cheshire United States
14th Lynn Pirie United States
16th Joy Nichols Canada
18th Lydia Cheng United States

Official scores are unavailable.

Women's Bodybuilding

Complete Results updated April 3, 2026 Source: MuscleMemory

This edition in context

Competitors
18
Divisions
2
Size rank
10 of 14

The biggest field since 1984.

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.