For years the Olympia Weekend offered female pro athletes three categories: Ms. Olympia, Fitness and Figure. In 2010 the IFBB added a fourth: Bikini.
It became a major draw almost immediately, and it pulled in athletes the other divisions never would have, because it was not judged on muscle size alone. Balance, shape and overall stage presentation all count, down to hair, skin tone and poise.
Sonia Gonzalez won the first one. It has been the least predictable of the women’s divisions ever since, with 11 different champions in 16 contests, and Ashley Kaltwasser still holding the record at three.
Every champion, 2010 to 2025
11 champions have won it across 16 contests
| Year | Champion | Country | Runner-up |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 |  Maureen Blanquisco ×2 | Philippines | Ashlyn Little |
| 2024 |  Lauralie Chapados | United States | Ashley Kaltwasser |
| 2023 |  Jennifer Dorie ×2 | United States | Maureen Blanquisco |
| 2022 | Maureen Blanquisco ×2 | Philippines | Jennifer Dorie |
| 2021 | Jennifer Dorie ×2 | United States | Lauralie Chapados |
| 2020 |  Janet Layug | United States | Jennifer Dorie |
| 2019 |  Elisa Pecini | Brazil | Janet Layug |
| 2018 |  Angelica Teixeira ×2 | United States | Lauralie Chapados |
| 2017 | Angelica Teixeira ×2 | United States | Jennifer Ronzitti |
| 2016 |  Courtney King | United States | Angelica Teixeira |
| 2015 |  Ashley Kaltwasser ×3 | United States | Janet Layug |
| 2014 | Ashley Kaltwasser ×3 | United States | Janet Layug |
| 2013 | Ashley Kaltwasser ×3 | United States | Yeshaira Robles |
| 2012 |  Nathalia Melo | United States | Nicole Nagrani |
| 2011 |  Nicole Nagrani | United States | Nathalia Melo |
| 2010 |  Sonia Gonzalez | United States | Nathalia Melo |
Runner-up sourced from 483 recorded placings. Updates automatically.
Every Bikini Olympia champion
Sonia Gonzalez1 title · United States- Nicole Nagrani1 title · United States
- Nathalia Melo1 title · United States
- Ashley Kaltwasser3 titles · United States
- Courtney King1 title · United States
- Angelica Teixeira2 titles · United States
- Elisa Pecini1 title · Brazil
- Janet Layug1 title · United States
- Jennifer Dorie2 titles · United States
- Maureen Blanquisco2 titles · Philippines
- Lauralie Chapados1 title · United States
2010: Sonia Gonzalez
Nathalia Melo and Nicole Nagrani went into the inaugural contest as favourites, alongside Amanda Latona, who was already a name in fitness. Gonzalez beat all of them. Melo and Nagrani would each get their turn soon enough.
2011: Nicole Nagrani
Third in 2010, Nagrani spent the off-season making adjustments and came back a clear winner. Gonzalez dropped to fifth. Melo finished second again.
2012: Nathalia Melo
Two consecutive runner-up finishes, then the title. Melo edged out Nagrani, and Gonzalez fell out of the top five.
2013-2015: Ashley Kaltwasser
Kaltwasser won on her Olympia debut, which made her only the second woman to take an Olympia title first time out. The first was Cory Everson, Ms. Olympia in 1984. No man has ever done it except Larry Scott at the very first Mr. Olympia.
She was also the first Bikini champion to defend the title, and then did it again, three straight from 2013 to 2015. Nobody has matched it. She also holds the record for the most competitive wins of any athlete in the division, with 34.
2016: Courtney King
Kaltwasser came back for a fourth and missed her mark, dropping to fourth behind Angelica Teixeira and India Paulino. Courtney King took full advantage for her first Olympia title.
She never competed again. The 2016 Olympia was her last show.
2017-2018: Angelica Teixeira
With King retired, Teixeira came back from her runner-up finish with a much improved package and won in 2017.
She took it up another level in 2018 to become the second woman to defend the title, holding off Lauralie Chapados, Janet Layug and Elisa Pecini. Kaltwasser finished fifth.
2019: Elisa Pecini
Teixeira was chasing a third to match Kaltwasser. Elisa Pecini ended that at the 2019 contest. Layug was runner-up again, Teixeira third.
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It was also the year Jennifer Dorie first broke into the top five.
2020: Janet Layug
Janet Layug had won almost everything else. 2019 alone brought her the Japan Pro, the Asian Grand Prix, the Bikini International and Arnold Classic Australia. She still lost the Olympia to Pecini, finishing second for the third time in her career.
She prepared for 2020 accordingly, and won it in Orlando despite a season disrupted by the pandemic, beating a rebounding Teixeira along with Dorie, Etila Santiago and Chapados.
2021 and 2023: Jennifer Dorie
Layug announced she would not defend, which left the 2021 title open. Kaltwasser and Pecini both wanted it back; Chapados wanted her first.
Dorie got it, holding off Chapados in Orlando. Kaltwasser made the podium for the first time since her 2015 win.
She lost the title to Maureen Blanquisco in 2022 and took it back in 2023 with a fuller, more balanced physique, becoming the first Bikini athlete to reclaim it after losing it.
2022 and 2025: Maureen Blanquisco
The 2022 result surprised everyone, Blanquisco included. “I knew it was a matter of time, I just didn’t think it would be this time,” she said accepting it.
Fifty-four athletes entered that year. She won on balance, shape and stage presence, with Dorie second.
She skipped 2024 entirely and came back for 2025, with a real question over whether she could step straight back into a division Chapados had been improving in all year. She led it from prejudging to the finals and took the title back.
2024: Lauralie Chapados
The 2024 contest lost both recent champions before it started: Dorie withdrew for personal reasons, Blanquisco with an ankle injury days out.
That left Chapados, a three-time Bikini International winner, against Kaltwasser, and Chapados took her first Olympia title.
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What 483 placings reveal
Only one champion ever won it on debut
Sonia Gonzalez, at the very first Olympia in 2010. Every champion since lost before winning, on average 2.3 times first.
Sonia GonzalezAshley KaltwasserNicole NagraniNathalia MeloCourtney KingAngelica TeixeiraElisa PeciniMaureen BlanquiscoJennifer DorieJanet LayugLauralie ChapadosOlympias entered before a first title, fewest first
The best bodybuilders who never won it
India Paulino reached the podium 2 times between 2012 and 2016, 0 of them as runner-up, and never took the title.
Each block is one podium finish. Filled = runner-up.
0 reigns hold 0 of the 16 titles
The title moves in blocks rather than years. The long reigns below are the dynasties; the single years are the era we are in now.
Sonia GonzalezNicole NagraniNathalia MeloAshley KaltwasserCourtney KingAngelica TeixeiraElisa PeciniJanet LayugJennifer DorieMaureen BlanquiscoJennifer DorieLauralie ChapadosMaureen BlanquiscoEach bar is one unbroken reign, oldest first
How many rivals you had to beat
The 2010s Olympia averaged 26.0 competitors. By the 2020s it was 37.2, and in the 2020s it is 37.2.
Average scored competitors per contest, by decade
Where the title lives
Champion nationality, decade by decade.
Oxblood marks a champion from outside the United States
The winners of the other divisions:
- Every 212 Olympia Winner Since 2008 (and History of the Division)
- Every Wellness Olympia Winner Since 2021
- Every Classic Physique Olympia Winner Since 2016
- Every Fitness Olympia Winner Since 1995
- Every Wheelchair Olympia Winner Since 2018
- Every Mr. Olympia (Men's Open Division) Winner Since 1965
- Every Women's Physique Olympia Winner Since 2013
- Every Figure Olympia Winner Since 2003
- Every Men's Physique Olympia Winner Since 2013
- Every Ms. Olympia Winner Since 1980 (and History of the Division)
