1999 Mr. Olympia
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The 1999 Mr. Olympia contest was an IFBB professional bodybuilding competition held October 23, 1999 at the Mandalay Bay Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. This was the first Mr. Olympia staged in Las Vegas, its home for all but three Olympias since then.[1]
The total prize money awarded was $311,000.
| Place | Prize | Name | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $110,000 |  Ronnie Coleman |
5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 20[2] |
| 2 | $50,000 | Flex Wheeler |
10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 40 |
| 3 | $40,000 | Chris Cormier |
15 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 60 |
| 4 | $30,000 | Kevin Levrone |
31 | 22 | 23 | 25 | 101 |
| 5 | $20,000 | Shawn Ray |
29 | 24 | 24 | 26 | 103 |
| 6 | $15,000 |  Nasser El Sonbaty |
22 | 30 | 30 | 24 | 106 |
| 7 | $13,000 |  Paul Dillett |
27 | 37 | 38 | 102 | |
| 8 | $12,000 |  Lee Priest |
45 | 41 | 39 | 125 | |
| 9 | $11,000 | Dexter Jackson |
41 | 43 | 49 | 133 | |
| 10 | $10,000 | Miloš Šarčev |
54 | 59 | 48 | 161 | |
| 11 | Mike Matarazzo |
58 | 61 | 59 | 178 | ||
| 12 |  Ernie Taylor |
66 | 68 | 59 | 193 | ||
| 13 |  Pavol Jablonický |
63 | 67 | 69 | 199 | ||
| 14 | Jay Cutler |
72 | 67 | 65 | 204 | ||
| 15 |  Jean-Pierre Fux |
79 | 80 | 80 | 239 | ||
| DQ |  Markus Rühl |
61 | 60 | 69 | 190 |
Notable events
- Ronnie Coleman won his second consecutive Mr. Olympia title.
- In his Olympia debut, Markus Rühl originally placed 12th, but later tested positive for diuretics and was disqualified.
- Porter Cottrell withdrew from the contest due to a firefighting accident that occurred a few weeks earlier.
- Future Mr. Olympias Jay Cutler and Dexter Jackson made their Olympia debuts.[3]