Laura Creavalle

Laura Creavalle is a Guyanese-born Canadian and American professional female bodybuilder, born in 1959 in British Guiana, who migrated to Canada at 13 and attended Industrial High School and Mercy College. On a 1982 trip to Kingston, Jamaica, she saw a women's contest and noticed that the third-place competitor had a build like hers, a lower body proportionally larger than the upper. Back in Toronto she began training, and six months later she won the lightweight title at the Novice Ontario Championships. In 1983 she took second at the Canadian Couples Championships with her training partner Tony Melville, then relocated to California, won the 1986 NPC USA Championships and earned her pro card by winning the heavyweight class at the 1988 IFBB World Amateur Championships. She made her pro debut at the 1988 Ms. Olympia.