The 1999
Mr. Olympia
Mr. Olympia is the title awarded to the winner of the professional men's bodybuilding contest in the open division at Joe Weider's Olympia Fitness & Performance Weekend—an international bodybuilding competition that is held annually and is sanct ...
contest was an
IFBB professional bodybuilding
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A professional bodybuilder may be on ...
competition held October 21–24, 1999 at the
Mandalay Bay Arena in
Las Vegas
Las Vegas, colloquially referred to as Vegas, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada and the county seat of Clark County. The Las Vegas Valley metropolitan area is the largest within the greater Mojave Desert, and second-l ...
,
Nevada
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.
Results
The total prize money awarded was $311,000.
Notable events
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Ronnie Coleman
Ronald Dean Coleman (born May 13, 1964) is an American former professional bodybuilder who is widely regarded as the greatest Bodybuilding, bodybuilder of all time. Known as "The King", Coleman shares the all-time record for most Mr. Olympia ...
won his second consecutive Mr. Olympia title.
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Markus Rühl
Markus Rühl (born 22 February 1972, in Roßdorf, Darmstadt, West Germany) is a retired IFBB professional bodybuilder, who is widely regarded as one of the biggest "mass monster" bodybuilders of all time.
Early life
Rühl began training at the ...
placed positive for diuretics and was disqualified.
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Porter Cottrell withdrew from the contest due to a firefighting accident that occurred a few weeks earlier.
See also
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1999 Ms. Olympia
References
External links
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1999 in sports in Nevada
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October 1999 sports events in the United States