- Lisa Lyon
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name = Lisa Lyon
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birthdate = 1953
birthplace =Los Angeles, California , U.S.
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firstproshow = 1979 AAU Junior Ms America
firstproshowyear = 1979
bestwin = 1979 AAU Junior Ms America
bestwinyear = 1979
yesorretiredyear = Retired 1979Lisa Lyon is a female bodybuilder from the
United States . Her stats as taken on October 1980: She stands at 5'3" and weighs only 105 pounds, but she can dead-lift 225 pounds, bench-press 120 pounds, and squat 265 pounds; two and a half times her own weight.Background
Born in
Los Angeles ,California in 1953, Lisa Lyon is regarded as one of female bodybuilding's pioneers. She studied art at theUniversity of California at Los Angeles , and became accomplished inkendo , the Japanese art of fencing. She began weight training to build more upper body strength for kendo.Lyon entered and won the first
IFBB Women’s World Pro Bodybuilding Championship in Los Angeles onJune 16 ,1979 . This was the only bodybuilding competition of her career. Nevertheless, she became a media sensation, appearing in many magazines and on television talk shows. She also wrote a book on weight training for women titled "Lisa Lyon’s Body Magic" (ISBN 0-553-01296-7), which was published in 1981.Lyon became the first female bodybuilder to appear in "
Playboy " in October, 1980. She was inducted into theIFBB Hall of Fame in 2000.Lyon played Cimmaron in "Vamp", a low-budget 1986 film starring
Grace Jones .Lyon modeled for American fine art photographer
Robert Mapplethorpe , resulting in the 1983 book "Lady: Lisa Lyon" (ISBN 0-312-05290-1).External links
* [http://www.ifbb.com/halloffame/2000/lyon.htm IFBB Hall of Fame profile]
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