1991 Ms. Olympia

The 1991 Ms. Olympia contest was an IFBB professional bodybuilding competition was held on October 12 and 13, 1991 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California. It was the 12th Ms. Olympia competition held.

1991 Ms. Olympia
Promotion	IFBB
Date	October 12–13, 1991
Venue	Shrine Auditorium
City	Los Angeles, California, United States
Event chronology
1990 Ms. Olympia 1991 Ms. Olympia 1992 Ms. Olympia

Prize money

• 1st - $35,000
• 2nd - $20,000
• 3rd - $13,000
• 4th - $7,500
• 5th - $5,000
• 6th - $4,000
• 7th - $3,000
• 8th - $2,500
• 9th - $2,000
• 10th - $1,500

Total: $93,500

Rounds

• Round 1 (Symmetry Round): Judging the overall balance and proportion of the contestants' physiques.
• Round 2 (Muscularity Round): Focused on muscle size and definition.
• Round 3 (Compulsory Poses Round): Contestants performed mandatory poses to showcase key muscle groups.
• Round 4 (Posing Routine Round): A choreographed posing routine to music, emphasizing the contestants' creativity, presentation skills, and artistic expression.

Results

Place	Country	Name
1	Southfield, Michigan	Lenda Murray
2	New York City, New York	Bev Francis
3	Venice, California	Laura Creavalle
4	Scottsdale, Arizona	Sandy Riddell
5	Edgewater, New Jersey	Sharon Marvel
6	Newport Beach, California	Diana Dennis
7	Portland, Oregon	Shelley Beattie
8	Baden-Württemberg, Germany	Anja Schreiner
9	Rimini, Italy	Claudia Montemaggi
10	Tustin, California	Sue Gafner
11	Scottsdale, Arizona	Jackie Paisley
12	Le Port-Marly, France	Marie Mahabir
13	Venice, California	Hanny Van Aken
14	Como, Italy	Claudia Profanter
15	San Diego, California	Lisa Lorio
16	Montreal, Canada	Sandra Blackie
16	Venice, California	Laura Beaudry
16	Orlando, Florida	Audrey Harris
16	Miami, Florida	Gillian Hodge
16	Žilina, Czech and Slovak Federative Republic	Zuzana Korinkova
16	Munich, Germany	Jutta Tipelt

Scorecard

Contestant Country (In order of appearance)	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Pose Down	Final Place
Marie Mahabir, France	58	48	59		12
Shelley Beattie, USA	38	38	35	30	7
Laura Creavalle, Guyana	22	13	15	15	3
Diana Dennis, USA	42	30	25		6
Claudia Profanter, Italy	65	64	69		14
Sandy Riddell, USA	16	23	22	20	4
Lenda Murray, USA	8	10	5	8	1
Lisa Lorio, USA	64	73	3		15
Anja Schreiner, Germany	34	46	45		8
Bev Francis, Australia	7	7	10	8	2
Claudia Montemaggi, Italy	50	50	43		9
Jackie Paisley, USA	53	55	55		11
Hanny Van Aken, Holland	69	63	65		13
Sue Gafner, USA	52	50	51		10
Sharon Marvel, USA	22	22	23	25	5
ALSO COMPETED: Laura Beaudry, USA. Sandra Blackie, Canada. Audrey Harris, USA. Gillian Hodge, Trinidad and Tobago. Zuzana Kornakova, Czechoslovakia. Jutta Tippelt, Germany.

Notable events

• Lenda Murray won her second Ms. Olympia consecutively, trying with Rachel McLish's record two Ms. Olympia wins, along with trying with Larry Scott's record two consecutive Mr. Olympia wins, along with Franco Columbu's record two overall Mr. Olympia wins.
  • After the 1991 Ms. Olympia prejudging (rounds 1 & 2) and going into the 1991 Ms. Olympia evening finals, Bev Francis lead Lenda Murray by a score of 14 to 18. Entertainment and Sports Programming Network (ESPN), in an unprecedented move for professional bodybuilding, flashed up the half time scores for the audience to see that Bev was in the lead. After rounds 3 & 4, Lenda edged out Bev, with the slimmest margin of victory for any Ms. Olympia winner, by a final score of 31 to 32. Peter McGough, bodybuilding journalist and historian, called the decision to award Lenda the 1991 Ms. Olympia as the "most controversial result in the event’s history".
  • In an interview with John Romano, Lenda said that before the finals she heard Benjamin "Ben" Weider and Josef "Joe" Weider and "did something" and called the decision to award her 1991 Ms. Olympia as a "business decision". She thought it probably could have been both Ben and the ESPN brass behind awarding her the 1991 Ms. Olympia.
• This was the first Ms. Olympia contest, the 1991 Ms. Olympia finals, to be televised live on ESPN.
• The two emcees of the 1991 Ms. Olympia was Jake Steinfeld and Carla Dunlap-Kaan.
• Rachel McLish was awarded bodybuilding's Lifetime Achievement Award by Joe Weider.
• This is the first Ms. Olympia since 1984 to not drug test. Every Ms. Olympia after 1991 would also not drug test.

See also

• 1991 Mr. Olympia

External links

• Ms. Olympia Turns 30
• 1991 Ms. Olympia held in Los Angeles on October 13th
• BEV’S LAST STAND
• 1991 Ms Olympia Results
• Competitor History of the Ms. Olympia
• 1991 MS. OLYMPIA (DOWNLOAD)
• 1991 MS. OLYMPIA (DVD)