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).
13 career wins
Akim Williams
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
- Division
- Men's Open Bodybuilding
- 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
Peak Year 2003 (2 wins)
Measured against Akim Williams’s own seasons, not against the field.
- Pro Debut
- 2003
- Olympia Debut
- 2016
- Last Contest
- 2026
| 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 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
Arnold Classic
All contests on record
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.
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.
| Year | Contest | Division | Place | Won 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.
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.
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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.
Most-met rivals
Compare any two athletes →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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