Laura Combes

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Laura Combes
Bodybuilder
Personal info
Born(1953-10-19)October 19, 1953
New York, New York, USA
DiedOctober 4, 1989(1989-10-04) (aged 35)
Odessa, Florida
Professional career
Pro-debut
  • 1980 Miss Virginia Beach Champion
  • 1979
Best win
  • 1980 NPC Nationals Overall Champion
  • 1979–1982
ActiveRetired 1982

Laura Combes was a professional female bodybuilder from the United States.

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Born on October 19, 1953, in New York, New York, Combes moved to Tampa, Florida in 1966 at age 13. As a teenager she played many sports, including fencing, sailing, archery, canoeing, horseback riding, water skiing, and tennis. Combes attended St. Petersburg College Prep School, and then went to the University of South Florida in Tampa.

In the late 1970s, she began lifting weights to rehab injuries to both knees suffered while playing rugby. Soon, she became involved in the fledgling sport of women's bodybuilding. She won the first NPC Nationals in 1980, and won the AAU Ms. America title in 1981.

Combes made a dramatic national television appearance that year on the NBC series Real People. After the airing of a taped segment about female bodybuilding in which she had been featured, Combes carried host Skip Stephenson onto stage in front of the studio audience.

Combes competed in three professional shows, retiring after a sixth-place finish at the 1982 Ms. Olympia. Combes authored Winning Women's Bodybuilding ( ISBN   0-8092-5616-9) in 1983. Laura was inducted into the IFBB Hall of Fame in 2002.

Laura Combes was found dead in her apartment in Odessa, Florida on October 4, 1989, from acute alcohol poisoning.

Contest history

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