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Akim Williams is a Men's Open Bodybuilding competitor from the United States. Akim Williams has a verified height of 5'10" (178 cm) and a recorded contest weight of 265 lb (120 kg).

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13 career wins

Akim Williams

GenderMale
Born1984
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High confidence 60 recorded results, Official/primary source Updated August 14, 2026 Accurate?

Akim Williams, a bodybuilder from the United States, stands 5'10" (178 cm) tall and competes at a contest weight of around 265 lb (120 kg). He was born on August 20, 1984 and is 42 years old.

Career Record

Total Results
60
Wins
13
Win Rate
21.7%
Career
2003–2026
Height
5'10" (178 cm)
Weight
265 lb (120 kg)
Age
42
Country
United States
Verified
Sources
61

Akim Williams has won six professional shows, placed sixth at the Mr. Olympia in 2020, and has been competing since 2003. Very few open competitors have lasted that long.

Win rate here is first-place finishes as a share of all 60 recorded contest results. It is published only where a career holds at least five, because below that a single placing moves the figure by twenty points or more.

Every season on record

2003 to 2026 shown · 60 results on record

Peak Year 2003 (2 wins)

Measured against Akim Williams’s own seasons, not against the field.

2003
2004
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
Olympia 1st place 2nd place 3rd place Other
Pro Debut
2003
Olympia Debut
2016
Last Contest
2026
Akim Williams Olympia Career: 0 title(s). First appeared at the Olympia in 2016 and placed 15. Source: Fitness Volt Bodybuilding Database.
Year Placement Division
2016 15 Men's Open Bodybuilding
2019 9 Men's Open Bodybuilding
2020 6 Men's Open Bodybuilding
2021 9 Men's Open Bodybuilding
2024 10 Men's Open Bodybuilding

Data updated

Known for

The professional wins run across nine years: the Tampa Pro in 2016 and again in 2022, the Chicago Pro in 2020, the Puerto Rico Pro in 2021, and both the Toronto Pro Supershow and the Bigman Spain Pro in 2024.

His best Olympia finish is sixth, in 2020. He has qualified and competed at five of them, in 2016, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2024, and improved from fifteenth to sixth across the first four.

Early career

He first appears in 2003, winning the heavyweight classes at the South Carolina State and Metrolina championships. It took ten years to turn professional, which he did by winning the super heavyweights at the 2013 North American Championships.

Sixty contests are recorded across twenty-three years and he was still competing in 2026.

Championship record

Championship appearances

Counted from the same results table below: an appearance is one recorded placing at that series, a title is a first place, and Top 3 counts first, second and third together. The last row is every contest on record for Akim Williams, amateur shows included.

Mr. Olympia

7Appearances
0Titles
0Top 3

Arnold Classic

11Appearances
0Titles
2Top 3

All contests on record

60Contests
13Wins
25Top 3
Physique benchmark

How Akim Williams measures up

Fat-free mass index turns the height and weight on this profile into one number for how much muscle a frame carries, so a shorter competitor is not flattered by a bodyweight comparison. The normalised figure adjusts it again to a standard height, which is the version worth ranking. Both assume the 6% body fat a competitor steps on stage at, because that is the only condition the recorded weight was taken in.

35.6FFMI
35.7Normalised FFMI
35thOf 316 measured men

The closest Olympia champion on that measure is Dorian Yates, at 35.6.

What this rank is not. This database holds a height and a weight for just 463 athletes, and they are overwhelmingly the ones somebody bothered to measure: 73 of them hold an Olympia title. Almost every competitor on record carries no measurement at all. The pool also mixes every division and era together, from the lightweight women's classes to the open heavyweights, so it ranks size and nothing else. It says where Akim Williams sits among the athletes we hold measurements for, not among competitors.

All results

Every contest result on record for Akim Williams, 60 in all. The table opens on the first 15 and expands in place from there. Nothing sits on a separate page. Won by names the winner of the division Akim Williams competed in, and shows a dash where that winner cannot be pinned to one person in the database.

YearContestDivisionPlaceWon by
2026 Arnold Classic Men's Open Bodybuilding #8
2026 Arnold Classic United Kingdom Men's Open Bodybuilding #6
2025 Arnold Classic Men's Open Bodybuilding #6 Derek Lunsford
2025 Everest Muscle Stars Poland Pro Men's Open Bodybuilding #4 Andrea Presti
2025 Mr. Olympia Men's Open Bodybuilding Unplaced Derek Lunsford
2024 Arnold Classic Men's Open Bodybuilding #6 Hadi Choopan
2024 Bigman Spain Pro Men's Open Bodybuilding #1 Winner
2024 IFBB Romania Muscle Fest Pro Men's Open Bodybuilding #2 Rafael Brandao
2024 IFBB Toronto Pro Supershow Men's Open Bodybuilding #1 Winner
2024 Mr. Olympia Men's Open Bodybuilding #10 Samson Dauda
2023 Arnold Classic Men's Open Bodybuilding #6 Samson Dauda
2022 2022 Legion Sports Festival Pro Men's Open Bodybuilding #2 Nick Walker
2022 IFBB Tampa Pro Men's Open Bodybuilding #1 Winner
2022 Mr. Olympia Men's Open Bodybuilding Unplaced Hadi Choopan
2021 Arnold Classic Men's Open Bodybuilding #5 Nick Walker
2021 IFBB Puerto Rico Pro Men's Open Bodybuilding #1 Winner
2021 Mr. Olympia Men's Open Bodybuilding #9 Mamdouh Elssbiay
2020 Arnold Classic Men's Open Bodybuilding #7 William Bonac
2020 Chicago Pro Men's Open Bodybuilding #1 Winner
2020 Mr. Olympia Men's Open Bodybuilding #6 Mamdouh Elssbiay
2019 Arnold Classic Men's Open Bodybuilding #9 Brandon Curry
2019 Arnold Classic South America Men's Classic Physique #3 Juan Morel
2019 Arnold Classic South America Men's Open Bodybuilding #3 Juan Morel
2019 IFBB Bigman Weekend Pro Men's Open Bodybuilding #2 Joshua Lenartowicz
2019 IFBB Indy Pro Men's Open Bodybuilding #2 Stephen Kuclo
2019 IFBB New York Pro Men's Open Bodybuilding #2 Juan Morel
2019 Mr. Olympia Men's Open Bodybuilding #9 Brandon Curry
2018 IFBB New York Pro Men's Open Bodybuilding #10 Nathan De Asha
2018 IFBB Toronto Pro Supershow Men's Open Bodybuilding #2 Antoni Khadraoui
2018 Muscle Mayhem Men's Open Bodybuilding #2 Charles Griffen
2017 California Pro Men's Open Bodybuilding #5 Gerald Williams
2017 IFBB New York Pro Men's Open Bodybuilding #5 Sergio Oliva Jr
2016 Arnold Classic Asia Men's Open Bodybuilding #9 Justin Compton
2016 IFBB Tampa Pro Men's Open Bodybuilding #1 Winner
2016 IFBB Wings of Strength Chicago Pro Men's Open Bodybuilding #6 Dallas McCarver
2016 Kuwait Pro Championships Men's Open Bodybuilding #10 Mamdouh Elssbiay
2016 Mr. Olympia Men's Open Bodybuilding #15 Phil Heath
2016 Tampa Pro Championships Men's Open Bodybuilding #1 Winner
2015 Chicago Pro Championships Men's Open Bodybuilding #3 Jonathan DeLaRosa
2015 IFBB Europa Dallas Men's Open Bodybuilding #3 Fred Smalls
2015 IFBB Tampa Pro Men's Open Bodybuilding #8 Maxx Charles
2015 IFBB Wings of Strength Chicago Pro Men's Open Bodybuilding #3 Jonathan DeLaRosa
2015 Tampa Pro Championships Men's Open Bodybuilding #8 Maxx Charles
2014 Chicago Pro Championships Men's Open Bodybuilding #5 Roelly Winklaar
2014 Golden State Grand Prix Men's Open Bodybuilding #7 William Bonac
2014 IFBB New York Pro Men's Open Bodybuilding #11 Mamdouh Elssbiay
2013 IFBB North American Championships Men's Open Bodybuilding #1 Winner
2012 Eastern USA Championships Men's Open Bodybuilding #1 Winner
2012 Nationals Men's Open Bodybuilding #9 Brian Yersky
2012 USA Championships Men's Open Bodybuilding #5 Stephen Frazier
2011 IFBB North American Championships Men's Open Bodybuilding #11 Kenneth Jackson
2011 Junior Nationals Men's Open Bodybuilding #4 Kevin Jordan
2010 Eastern USA Championships Men's Open Bodybuilding #1 Winner
2009 Junior USA Men's Open Bodybuilding #7 Robert Calin
2008 Junior Nationals Men's Open Bodybuilding #6 Sean Allan
2008 Nationals Men's Open Bodybuilding Unplaced Edward Nunn
2008 Palmetto Cup Men's Open Bodybuilding #1 Winner
2004 Junior Nationals Men's Open Bodybuilding Unplaced Byron English
2003 Metrolina Men's Open Bodybuilding #1 Winner
2003 South Carolina State Men's Open Bodybuilding #1 Winner

Showing 15 of 60 recorded results. Showing all 60 recorded results.

Where these results come from. Each contest in the table was recorded from a named source, and for Akim Williams those sources are NPC Contests, MuscleMemory, Arnold Sports and IFBB Pro League. Open any contest above and that page names its own source and links to it where the source is still reachable. MuscleMemory is the exception: the archive we recorded those older shows from no longer answers at the addresses we hold, so it is credited by name and not offered as a link.

Legacy

The open class chews through competitors. Williams turned professional at 29 after a decade as an amateur and was still qualifying for Olympias in his late thirties, which is a rarer achievement than a single high placing.

Sources

Competition placings on this page come from our own contest database and cover his record from 2003 onward. He is an active competitor, so this page changes as results are added.

His 2016 Tampa Pro win appears twice under two contest names, and his 2022 Olympia row carries no placement in our source data.

In 12 meetings, Brandon Curry finished ahead of Akim Williams 10 times to 2.

Opponents are ranked by how often they shared a stage and how big the stage was, not by reputation. A meeting is one contest where both competed in the same division and both were placed.

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