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Akim Williams

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Akim Williams won his first professional show in 2016, placed sixth at the Mr. Olympia in 2020, and has been competing since 2003. Very few open competitors have lasted that long.

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 competed at the Olympia in 2016, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 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.

He was still competing in 2026, twenty-three years after his first recorded contest.

Championship record

Championship appearances

Counted from the same results table below: an appearance is one contest entered (in the years the Olympia also judged weight classes, one appearance can carry two placings), an Olympia title is the overall win in that division, and Top 3 counts first, second and third together. The last row is every professional contest on record for Akim Williams.

Mr. Olympia

7Appearances
0Titles
0Top 3

Arnold Classic

7Appearances
0Titles
0Top 3

All contests on record

46Contests
7Wins
19Top 3

Professional results

Every professional contest result on record for Akim Williams, 46 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 Open Bodybuilding #3 Juan Morel
2019 Arnold Classic South America Men's Classic Physique #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 Juan Morel
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

Showing 15 of 46 professional results. Showing all 46 professional 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.

Every professional season

2014 to 2026 shown · 46 professional results

Peak Year 2016 (2 wins)

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

2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
Olympia 1st place 2nd place 3rd place Other
Pro Debut
2014
First Win
2016
Last Contest
2026

Akim Williams at the Olympia, year by year

Akim Williams at the Mr. Olympia: no title, first appearance 2016. Unplaced appearances in 2022 and 2025 have no point on the chart. 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

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: 74 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.

Amateur and other shows not counted above

14 results from amateur shows and other contests this archive does not class as professional. Every total on this page covers the professional career only, so these are listed here but never counted, and they have no contest page.

Show the list
YearContestDivisionPlace
2013 IFBB North American Championships Men's Bodybuilding (Super Heavyweight) #1
2012 Eastern USA Championships Men's Bodybuilding (Super Heavyweight) #1
2012 Nationals Men's Bodybuilding (Super Heavyweight) #9
2012 USA Championships Men's Bodybuilding (Super Heavyweight) #5
2011 IFBB North American Championships Men's Bodybuilding (Heavyweight) #11
2011 Junior Nationals Men's Bodybuilding (Heavyweight) #4
2010 Eastern USA Championships Men's Bodybuilding (Light Heavyweight) #1
2009 Junior USA Men's Bodybuilding (Super Heavyweight) #7
2008 Junior Nationals Men's Bodybuilding (Super Heavyweight) #6
2008 Nationals Men's Bodybuilding (Super Heavyweight) Unplaced
2008 Palmetto Cup Men's Bodybuilding (Super Heavyweight) #1
2004 Junior Nationals Men's Bodybuilding (Super Heavyweight) Unplaced
2003 Metrolina Men's Bodybuilding (Heavyweight) #1
2003 South Carolina State Men's Bodybuilding (Heavyweight) #1

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.

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.

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.

Win rate here is first-place finishes as a share of all 46 professional 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.

High confidence 46 professional results, Official/primary source Updated September 30, 2026 Accurate?

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