Robby Robinson

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Robby Robinson (born May 24, 1946) is an American former bodybuilder who won the IFBB Mr. America, Mr. World, and Mr. Universe titles on his way to becoming one of the most dominant professional bodybuilders of the 1970s. He was the Masters Olympia overall champion the first year that the event was held in 1994 and then went on to win the 50+ division at that same contest in both 1997 and 2000.

1 Early years
2 Other
3 See also
4 References

[edit] Early years

Robinson was born in Damascus, Georgia, and raised in Tallahassee, Florida. He attended Florida A&M University, where he competed in both football and track & field. While training for those sports he noticed his body's great responsiveness to weight training, which motivated him to enter his first bodybuilding competition. After competing in over three hundred amateur competitions, Robinson turned professional in 1975.

[edit] Other

^{[citation needed]}In 2003, Robinson was one of two African-American bodybuilders who claimed to have been subjected to racist insults by Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 1970s.