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Francis Benfatto
1963
Doing a far spread at % years old is not an easy thing to do! In this p ic I am on Holiday near the sea at home with my family.
My Father took this picture and asked me to pose and show my muscles.
He was also training at that stage, feeding my fascination with muscles from an early age!
1978
Here I am doing a one arm flex weighing in at approx. 65kg. I have been in training for 4 years and have done a few local competitions favouring the classical athletic poses.
It took me 4 more years to reach national level. I am a hard gainer and especially back then took my time.
1982
A few months after this double biceps pose was taken I won the under 67kg category at Mr France.
I won because of my conditioning and my symetrical body. I learned this lesson early on; if you are ready like no one you can beat anyone. I realized that quality is better than quantity. Thus, it's better to be well defined than huge.
I then stated to apply this winning strategy and worked my way up the world level.
1985
My Hands onmy left waist and a look of determination put me through the world selection for Mr Universe. I won the overall competition and then took 5th at Mr World 2 weeks later at Gatesburg in Sweden
There were 46 countries entered into the middlewight devision in which I was competing. Lee Labrada took the title and Twin Proffesional!
1987
This was the best shape of my amatuer career. Here I got 2nd place behind El-Shahat Mabrouk who took the world title. I really wanted to win, but I did get my pro card and could start my professional career.
I soon forgot this dissapointment when I signed with Joe Weider from the Weider company. I signed a contract with them and competed all over Europe and America.
5 Years later after many successes I retired from the sport after Mr Olympia 1992.
1995
Even though I was retired I was still under contract with the Weider company. I did a lot of pictures and articles depicted here as the David Statue.
Joe Weider use to carry this picture around for quite some time, regularly showing it to some extatic fans
2006
48 Years old making my comeback at the Australian Grand Prix. I decided this was to be my comeback oppertunity and I placed 6th.
Me and my good friend Gary Phillips took a lot of outside pictures 2 days after the Grand Prix
1985
Championnat d'Europe 5e
1986
Championnat d'Europe 3e
Championnat du Monde 3e
1987
Championnat du Monde 2e
1988
Grand Prix de France 9e
Nuit des Champions 9e
1989
Grand Prix de France 6e
Allemagne 4e
Espagne 6e
Suéde 7e
Olympia 12e
1990
Nuit des Champions 8e
Olympia 6e
1991
Arnold Classic 10e
IronMan 7e
Olympia 7e
1992
Arnold Classic 9e
Olympia 15e
Pittsburg 8e
1993
Arnold Classic 13e
Grand Prix France 9e
Allemagne 13e
1963
My Father took this picture and asked me to pose and show my muscles.
He was also training at that stage, feeding my fascination with muscles from an early age!
1978
It took me 4 more years to reach national level. I am a hard gainer and especially back then took my time.
1982
I won because of my conditioning and my symetrical body. I learned this lesson early on; if you are ready like no one you can beat anyone. I realized that quality is better than quantity. Thus, it's better to be well defined than huge.
I then stated to apply this winning strategy and worked my way up the world level.
1985
There were 46 countries entered into the middlewight devision in which I was competing. Lee Labrada took the title and Twin Proffesional!
1987
I soon forgot this dissapointment when I signed with Joe Weider from the Weider company. I signed a contract with them and competed all over Europe and America.
5 Years later after many successes I retired from the sport after Mr Olympia 1992.
1995
Joe Weider use to carry this picture around for quite some time, regularly showing it to some extatic fans
2006
Me and my good friend Gary Phillips took a lot of outside pictures 2 days after the Grand Prix
1985
Championnat d'Europe 5e
1986
Championnat d'Europe 3e
Championnat du Monde 3e
1987
Championnat du Monde 2e
1988
Grand Prix de France 9e
Nuit des Champions 9e
1989
Grand Prix de France 6e
Allemagne 4e
Espagne 6e
Suéde 7e
Olympia 12e
1990
Nuit des Champions 8e
Olympia 6e
1991
Arnold Classic 10e
IronMan 7e
Olympia 7e
1992
Arnold Classic 9e
Olympia 15e
Pittsburg 8e
1993
Arnold Classic 13e
Grand Prix France 9e
Allemagne 13e
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