Editing Bodybuilding (section)

====First large-scale bodybuilding competition====
Sandow organized the first bodybuilding contest on September 14, 1901, called the "Great Competition". It was held at the [[Royal Albert Hall]] in London.<ref>{{cite web|last=Rhodes|first=Jesse|name-list-style=vanc|title=Bodybuilders Through the Ages|url=http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/Bodybuilders-Through-the-Ages.html|date=July 19, 2009|access-date=September 24, 2013|archive-date=November 6, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131106002608/http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/Bodybuilders-Through-the-Ages.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Judged by Sandow, Sir Charles Lawes, and [[Arthur Conan Doyle|Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]], the contest was a great success and many bodybuilding enthusiasts were turned away due to the overwhelming number of audience members. The trophy presented to the winner was a gold statue of Sandow sculpted by Frederick Pomeroy. The winner was William L. Murray of [[Nottingham]]. The silver Sandow trophy was presented to second-place winner D. Cooper. The bronze Sandow trophy—now the most famous of all—was presented to third-place winner A.C. Smythe.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2018-05-16|title=The Fascinating Story of the First Bodybuilding Show|url=https://barbend.com/first-bodybuilding-show-eugen-sandow/|access-date=2021-04-23|website=BarBend|language=en-US|archive-date=April 23, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210423123443/https://barbend.com/first-bodybuilding-show-eugen-sandow/|url-status=live}}</ref> In 1950, this same bronze trophy was presented to [[Steve Reeves]] for winning the inaugural [[National Amateur Body-Builders' Association|NABBA]] [[Universe Championships|Mr. Universe]] contest. It would not resurface again until 1977 when the winner of the [[International Federation of BodyBuilders|IFBB]] [[Mr. Olympia]] contest, [[Frank Zane]], was presented with a replica of the bronze trophy. Since then, [[Mr. Olympia]] winners have been consistently awarded a replica of the bronze Sandow.

The first large-scale bodybuilding competition in America took place from December 28, 1903, to January 2, 1904,<ref>{{cite web |last1=Ryan |first1=Eugene Avery |year=1899 |title=''Physical Culture'', vol. 10, no. 6 (December 1903), p. 555 |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951000756772n&view=1up&seq=569 |access-date=August 16, 2019 |archive-date=February 4, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210204210450/https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951000756772n&view=1up&seq=569 |url-status=live }}</ref> at [[Madison Square Garden (1890)|Madison Square Garden]] in New York City. The competition was promoted by [[Bernarr Macfadden]], the father of [[physical culture]] and publisher of original bodybuilding magazines such as ''Health & Strength''. The winner was [[Al Treloar]], who was declared "The Most Perfectly Developed Man in the World".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sandowplus.co.uk/Competition/Treloar/treloar.htm|title=Al Treloar at SandowPlus.com|publisher=Sandowplus.co.uk|date=December 28, 1903|access-date=October 5, 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120629104307/http://www.sandowplus.co.uk/Competition/Treloar/treloar.htm|archive-date=June 29, 2012|df=mdy-all}}</ref> Treloar won a thousand dollar cash prize, a substantial sum at that time. Two weeks later, [[Thomas Edison]] made a film of Treloar's posing routine. Edison had also made two films of Sandow a few years before. Those were the first three motion pictures featuring a bodybuilder. In the early 20th century, Macfadden and [[Charles Atlas]] continued to promote bodybuilding across the world.