There are 322 names on the 2026 Olympia lineup. Twenty-three of them have already won an Olympia title.
A handful of them are one win from a line in the record book nobody else holds. Andrea Shaw can pass Cory Everson. Ramon Dino can become only the third man to keep a Classic Physique title. Ashley Kaltwasser can become the first four-time Bikini champion, 11 years after her last one. Two men can catch Jeremy Buendia, and Derek Lunsford can join Sergio Oliva and Frank Zane on three Sandows.
So we took every Olympia result in our database, back to 1965, and ran it against the official 2026 lineup. Here is every record in play in Las Vegas this weekend, and who is standing in the way.
Ms. Olympia: Andrea Shaw goes for seven
The Ms. Olympia came back in 2020 after a five-year break, and Andrea Shaw has won every one since. That is six in a row.
A seventh on Friday night moves her past Cory Everson and into third on the all-time list:
| Ms. Olympia | Titles | Years |
|---|---|---|
| Iris Kyle | 10 | 2004, 2006 to 2014 |
| Lenda Murray | 8 | 1990 to 1995, 2002, 2003 |
| Cory Everson | 6 | 1984 to 1989 |
| Andrea Shaw | 6 | 2020 to 2025 |
| Kim Chizevsky | 4 | 1996 to 1999 |
Seven in a row would also be the second-longest winning streak the division has ever seen. Only Kyle’s nine straight, from 2006 to 2014, would still be longer.
Shaw already has a 2026 win on the board, at the Rising Phoenix and Arizona Pro. Here is how she won number six last October.
Mr. Olympia: three champions, one Sandow
Three of the 22 men in the Men’s Open lineup already know what a Sandow weighs: Derek Lunsford (2023, 2025), Samson Dauda (2024) and Brandon Curry (2019). At most one of them leaves Las Vegas with another.
Lunsford is chasing a third Sandow. That would put him level with Sergio Oliva and Frank Zane and make him the first three-time Mr. Olympia since Phil Heath. He is already the only man to win both the 212 Olympia (2021) and the Mr. Olympia.
His problem is a curse. No defending champion has kept the title since Big Ramy in 2021. We broke that down, contender by contender, in what last year’s placings say about the 2026 Mr. Olympia.
Dauda and Curry are each chasing a second title. Either would join Larry Scott, Franco Columbu, Big Ramy and Lunsford among the two-time winners.
And keep an eye on William Bonac. He says his 12th Olympia will be his last.
Classic Physique: life after Bumstead
For six years, Classic Physique had one answer. Chris Bumstead won every Classic Olympia from 2019 to 2024, then retired on top.
In ten years the division has crowned only four champions: Danny Hester, Breon Ansley, Bumstead and Ramon Dino. Only Ansley and Bumstead ever defended the title. On Friday night, Dino gets his shot at joining them.
Nobody knows the view from second place better than Dino. He was runner-up to Bumstead in 2022 and 2023, slipped to fourth in 2024 and finally won last year. Five of last year’s top six are back to take it from him, and three of them arrive with a real story.
Mike Sommerfeld has finished second two years running, in 2024 and 2025. That is exactly how Bumstead’s run started: second in 2017, second in 2018, then six straight titles.
He also won the 2025 Arnold Classic, and in March he won the Arnold Classic UK with Wesley Vissers right behind him. A win on Friday would make him Germany’s first Olympia champion in any division.
Wesley Vissers had the best spring of anyone in the division. He won the Arnold Classic in March, won the Detroit Pro nine days later, then took second to Sommerfeld at the Arnold Classic UK. He even has The Rock in his corner.
The catch is his Olympia record. His best finish is seventh, in 2023. A win would make him the first Dutch man to win an Olympia title. The Netherlands’ only Olympia champion so far is Juliette Bergmann, who won the Ms. Olympia in 2001. And he would do it the same weekend Dutch veteran William Bonac says goodbye to the Olympia.
Then there is Terrence Ruffin, the man who has seen it all. He was on stage at the very first Classic Physique Olympia in 2016, where he finished ninth. He was runner-up to Bumstead in 2020 and 2021, took third last year and won four pro shows in 2025: Pittsburgh, New York, Brazil and Prague.
The rest of the 47-man field is in our 2026 Classic Physique Olympia preview.
Bikini: Ashley Kaltwasser wants one more, 11 years later
The Bikini Olympia started in 2010. In 16 years, nobody has won it more than three times, and the woman who did it is on this year’s lineup.
Ashley Kaltwasser won three straight, from 2013 to 2015. Then she kept showing up. She finished second at the 2024 Olympia and fifth last year, and she has won five pro shows in 2026: the Mile High Pro, the World Classic Pro, the Vancouver Pro, the Sasquatch Pro, and the Rising Phoenix and Arizona Pro.
A win on Saturday would make her the first four-time Bikini Olympia champion, 11 years after her last title.
She has company. Bikini has four former champions in the lineup this year, more than any other division:
- Ashley Kaltwasser: 2013, 2014, 2015
- Maureen Blanquisco: 2022, 2025
- Lauralie Chapados: 2024
- Elisa Pecini: 2019
Blanquisco, the defending champion, can tie Kaltwasser at three. The trend is against her. Nobody has won back-to-back bikini titles since Angelica Teixeira in 2017 and 2018, and the title has changed hands at all seven Olympias since.
Men’s Physique: two men can catch Jeremy Buendia
Jeremy Buendia won four straight Men’s Physique Olympia titles, from 2014 to 2017. Nobody has won more. This weekend, two men can match him.
Ryan Terry is the defending champion with three straight, 2023 to 2025. Brandon Hendrickson got to three the slow way, in 2018, 2020 and 2021, then finished third last year and won the Arnold Classic in March.
Only six men have ever won the Men’s Physique Olympia. Add 2022 champion Erin Banks to Terry and Hendrickson, and half of them are in this year’s 51-man lineup.
Women’s Physique: Sarah Villegas can break a tie
Sarah Villegas shares the Women’s Physique record with Juliana Malacarne, four titles each. Malacarne won hers in a row, from 2014 to 2017. Villegas took 2020, 2021, 2023 and 2024.
Villegas lost the title last year to Natalia Abraham Coelho and finished second. Coelho, who also won in 2022, is back to defend it. If Villegas takes it back on Friday night, the record is hers alone.
212: Keone Pearson climbs the Flex Lewis ladder
Nobody is catching Flex Lewis. He won seven straight 212 titles from 2012 to 2018, and that number is safe for years.
Second place on that list is up for grabs. Keone Pearson has won three in a row, 2023 to 2025, which ties Kevin English’s three from 2009 to 2011. A fourth puts Pearson alone behind Flex. Not bad for a man who finished 14th in his 212 Olympia debut in 2021.
Two former champions will try to stop him. Shaun Clarida (2020, 2022) was the runner-up to Pearson in both 2024 and 2025. And Breon Ansley, the Classic Physique champion in 2017 and 2018, has moved to 212. Nobody has ever won Olympia titles in both Classic Physique and 212. Ansley would be the first.
Figure: Missy Truscott switches lanes
Missy Truscott won the Fitness Olympia three times, in 2020, 2022 and 2024. Then she walked away from the division she ruled.
She moved to Figure in 2025, won the Tupelo Pro and the Sasquatch Pro in her first season and finished 10th at her first Figure Olympia. She is back for a second try. No woman has ever won Olympia titles in both Fitness and Figure.
The woman in her way is Rhea Gayle, who won Figure last year and ended an eight-year run of Cydney Gillon titles (2017 to 2024). Gillon is not on this year’s lineup, which makes Gayle the only Figure champion in the field.
Wellness, Fitness and Wheelchair: three first-time champions defend
Eduarda Bezerra won Wellness last year. Francielle Mattos won the first three Wellness titles, from 2021 to 2023, and the two Olympias since went to two different women. Bezerra has one of them, 2024 champion Isabelle Nunes, in her lineup.
Two more first-time champions, Michelle Fredua-Mensah in Fitness and James Berger in Wheelchair, defend with no former champion in their lineup. Truscott has moved to Figure, and six-time Wheelchair champion Harold Kelley is not entered. No record on the line in either, just the job of winning it twice.
And one record nobody can ever break
Fit Model makes its Olympia debut on Saturday morning, with 18 women on the lineup. The IFBB Pro League added the division in December 2024, and whoever wins on Saturday becomes its first Olympia champion. That one stays in the book forever.
Every record in play, night by night
| Division | Crowned | What’s on the line |
|---|---|---|
| Ms. Olympia | Friday | Shaw’s seventh straight, third on the all-time list |
| Women’s Physique | Friday | Villegas’s fifth, the most ever |
| 212 | Friday | Pearson’s fourth, alone behind Flex Lewis; Ansley, first Classic and 212 champion |
| Classic Physique | Friday | Dino, third man to defend the title; Sommerfeld, Germany’s first champion; Vissers, the first Dutch man |
| Figure | Friday | Truscott, first Fitness and Figure champion |
| Wellness | Friday | Bezerra, first repeat winner since Mattos |
| Fit Model | Saturday morning | The first champion ever |
| Bikini | Saturday | Kaltwasser, first four-time champion; Blanquisco, a third title |
| Men’s Physique | Saturday | Terry or Hendrickson ties Buendia at four |
| Fitness | Saturday | Fredua-Mensah’s first defense |
| Wheelchair | Saturday | Berger’s first defense |
| Mr. Olympia | Saturday | Lunsford’s third; a second for Dauda or Curry |
Twelve divisions, two days, and a record book that will look different by Sunday morning.
Every crowning lands on our 2026 Mr. Olympia live updates page as it happens. For the Men’s Open, our 2026 Mr. Olympia predictions board has picks from 13 experts plus our own top 10, and every athlete competing is listed on the IFBB Pro League’s 2026 Olympia competitors page.
