Every day it seems getbig steroid experts talk about how bodybuilders dies like flies due to shitloads of steroids and/or recreational drugs... lets check and see how many pro bodybuilders on the top level for the last almost 40 years going back that died... and how many of those deaths can we be sure of being drug related?
TOTAL NO OF MR OLYMPIA/NO OF YEARS: 20 (FROM 1977 TO 1997)
TOTAL NO OF BODYBUILDERS COMPETING PER OLYMPIA: 8 to 24.
TOTAL NO OF BODYBUILDERS ALIVE TODAY (18 to 38 years later): 100
TOTAL NO OF BODYBUILDERS THAT I DONT KNOW "?": 14
TOTAL NO OF BODYBUILDERS DEAD: 17
mr olympia 1977
ALIVE Frank Zane
ALIVE Robby Robinson
ALIVE Ed Corney (81 years old)
ALIVE Boyer Coe
ALIVE Ken Waller
DEAD AT 64 Dennis Tinerino (cancer)
ALIVE Albert Beckles (84 years old!)
ALIVE Bill Grant
mr olympia 1978
ALIVE Frank Zane
ALIVE Robby Robinson
ALIVE Roy Callender
ALIVE Boyer Coe
? Kalman Szkalak
ALIVE Danny Padilla
ALIVE Ed Corney
ALIVE Tony Emmott
mr olympia 1979
DEAD at 49 mentzer (heart complications)
ALIVE roger walker
ALIVE Bob Birdsong
ALIVE Chris Dickerson
DEAD at 47 Carlos Rodriguez (stomach cancer)
ALIVE Steve Davis
ALIVE tom platz
MR OLYMPIA 1980
ALIVE arnold
ALIVE Roy Duval
DEAD at 62 Casey Viator (heart attack)
ALIVE Samir Bannout
ALIVE ken waller
mr olympia 1981
ALIVE Jusup Wilkosz
DEAD at 63 Johnny Fuller (leukemia)
ALIVE Hubert Metz
ALIVE mike katz
DEAD at 61 Jorma Raty
mr olympia 1982
ALIVE Mohamed Makkawy
ALIVE bertil fox
?Jacques Nueville
ALIVE Lance Dreher
mr olympia 1983
ALIVE lee haney
ALIVE James Gaubert
ALIVE Dale Ruplinger
ALIVE Gerard Buinoud
mr olympia 1984
ALIVE bob paris
ALIVE Tony Pearson
ALIVE Chuck Williams
ALIVE charles glass
?Appie Steenbeek
mr olympia 1985
ALIVE gaspari
ALIVE mike christian
ALIVE Berry DeMey
DEAD at 71 sergio oliva (kidney failure)
? Richard Frank
DEAD at 62 Wilfried Sylvester (alzheimers)
ALIVE John Brown
ALIVE Ali Malla
? Salvador Ruiz
ALIVE Renato Bertagna
ALIVE Sean Jenkins
ALIVE Ben Herder
1986
?Peter Hensel
ALIVE ron love
ALIVE John Terelli
?Josef Grolmus
DEAD at 47 Eduardo Kawak
? Gary Leonard
1987
ALIVE labrada
ALIVE Michael Ashley
ALIVE John Hnatyschak
ALIVE Paul Jean-Guillaume
ALIVE Ulf Larsson
?Herman Hoffend
ALIVE Steve Brosbois
1988
ALIVE strydom
ALIVE Mike Quinn
ALIVE Brian Buchanan
DEAD at 33 Mohamed Benaziza
ALIVE phil hill
ALIVE shawn ray
ALIVE Luiz Freitas
ALIVE ralf moeller
1989
ALIVE vince taylor. ALIVE benfatto. DEAD at 31 munzer. (multiple organ failure) ? Armando Defant ALIVE Prem Chand Degra ALIVE Pavel Jablonicki ALIVE Tom Terwilliger
1990
DEAD at 45-46 Frank Hillebrand (heart attack)
ALIVE Eddie Robinson
ALIVE Jean Luc Favre
? Bernard Sealy
1991
ALIVE yates.
DEAD at 51 Sonny Schmidt (cancer)
ALIVE Thierry Pastel
ALIVE Achim Albrecht
? Renel Janvier
ALIVE nimrod king
ALIVE Geir Borgen Paulsen
? Joseph Dawson
ALIVE J.J. Marsh
ALIVE milos
1992
ALIVE levrone.
ALIVE porter cottrell
ALIVE lou ferrigno
ALIVE Alq' Gurley
ALIVE Henderson Thorne
ALIVE ronnie
? Miroslav Diskiewicz
DEAD Jose Guzman
ALIVE Juhani Herranen
ALIVE Patrick Nicholls
1993
ALIVE dillett
ALIVE Charles Clairmonte
ALIVE Flavio Baccianini
DEAD Ray McNeil (shot)
ALIVE Mauro Sarni
ALIVE Hamdullah Aykutlu
? Arthur Buurman
DEAD at 47 Mike Matarazzo (heart)
ALIVE Johann Schatz
ALIVE John Sherman
1994
ALIVE cormier.
DEAD at 47 nasser.
ALIVE aaron baker.
ALIVE gunter.
ALIVE david dearth
1995
ALIVE mike francois
ALIVE flex
ALIVE darrem charles
ALIVE Ian Harrison
1996
ALIVE Jean Pierre Fux
1997
ALIVE lee priest
