title: Erika Geisen
text: # Erika Geisen
  
  Erika Giesen is a professional bodybuilder from Australia.
  
  ## Bodybuilding career
  
  ### Amateur
  
  * 1983: South Pacific - first place
  * 1983: Miss Asia - first place
  * 1984: Australian - first place
  * 1986: Australasia - first place
  
  ### Professional
  
  Giesen's greatest success was winning the first Ms. International contest in 1986.
  
  ### Retirement
  
  Giesen runs now a cattle station with her husband in Queensland Australia.
  
  ### Legacy
  
  Giesen was the first bodybuilder to win the Ms. International. She is currently the most successful Australian bodybuilder of all time.
  
  ## Contest history
  
  * 1984 World Amateur Championship - 2nd (LW)
  * 1985 IFBB World Games - 4th (LW)
  * 1986 Ms. International - 1st
  * 1986 IFBB Ms. Olympia - 11th
  * 1988 Ms. International - 6th
  