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Alina Popa is a Women's Bodybuilding competitor from Switzerland.
4 career wins
Alina Popa
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Alina Popa, a bodybuilder from Switzerland, was born on October 12, 1978 and is 47 years old.
Career Record
- Total Results
- 15
- Wins
- 4
- Win Rate
- 26.7%
- Career
- 2004–2018
- Age
- 47
- Division
- Women's Bodybuilding
- Country
- Switzerland
- Verified
- Sources
- 12
Alina Popa was runner-up at the Ms. Olympia in 2013 and 2014 and won the Universe in 2007 and the World Amateur Championships in 2008. She won two professional shows in 2018 after four years away.
Win rate here is first-place finishes as a share of all 15 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 2018 (2 wins)
Measured against Alina Popa’s own seasons, not against the field. See the full peak window →
Olympia
1st place
2nd place
3rd place
Other
- Pro Debut
- 2004
- First Win
- 2007
- Olympia Debut
- 2011
- Last Contest
- 2018
| Year | Placement | Division |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 5 | Women's Bodybuilding |
| 2012 | 4 | Women's Bodybuilding |
| 2013 | 2 | Women's Bodybuilding |
| 2014 | 2 | Women's Bodybuilding |
Data updated
Known for
Two consecutive Olympia silvers, in 2013 and 2014, behind Iris Kyle in both. She was fourth in 2012 and fifth in 2011, so her four Olympia appearances all landed in the top five.
The amateur record that got her there is the 2007 Universe and the 2008 World Amateur Championships heavyweight class.
Early career
Her record opens in 2004 with a runner-up finish at the European Amateur Championships. After the 2014 Olympia there is nothing until 2018, when she won both the Rising Phoenix Arizona Pro and the Tampa Pro.
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 Alina Popa, amateur shows included.
Ms. Olympia
4Appearances
0Titles
2Top 3
Arnold Classic
1Appearances
0Titles
1Top 3
All contests on record
15Contests
4Wins
11Top 3
All results
Every contest result on record for Alina Popa, 15 in all. Won by names the winner of the division Alina Popa competed in, and shows a dash where that winner cannot be pinned to one person in the database.
| Year | Contest | Division | Place | Won by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | IFBB Rising Phoenix Arizona Pro | Women's Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 2018 | IFBB Tampa Pro | Women's Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 2016 | Rising Phoenix Arizona Pro | Women's Bodybuilding | #3 | Margie Martin |
| 2014 | Ms. Olympia | Women's Bodybuilding | #2 | Iris Kyle |
| 2013 | Ms. Olympia | Women's Bodybuilding | #2 | Iris Kyle |
| 2012 | Arnold Classic | Women's Bodybuilding | #3 | Yaxeni Oriquen |
| 2012 | Ms International | Women's Bodybuilding | #3 | Yaxeni Oriquen |
| 2012 | Ms. Olympia | Women's Bodybuilding | #4 | Iris Kyle |
| 2011 | Ms International | Women's Bodybuilding | #3 | Iris Kyle |
| 2011 | Ms. Olympia | Women's Bodybuilding | #5 | Iris Kyle |
| 2010 | Ms International | Women's Bodybuilding | #8 | Iris Kyle |
| 2008 | World Amateur Championships | Women's Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 2007 | Universe | Women's Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 2005 | European Amateur Championships | Women's Bodybuilding | #5 | Elena Shportun |
| 2004 | European Amateur Championships | Women's Bodybuilding | #2 | Aurelia Grozajova |
Where these results come from. Each contest in the table was recorded from a named source, and for Alina Popa those sources are MuscleMemory, Wikipedia and NPC Contests. 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
Popa spent her Olympia years finishing behind the most dominant competitor the division has had, then came back four years later and won two professional shows. The second half of that is the harder one.
Sources
Competition placings on this page come from our own contest database and cover 2004 to 2018.
Her nationality is inconsistent in our data: the corpus country field and the biography previously held against her record disagree. No nationality is stated above for that reason.
Most-met rivals
Compare any two athletes →In 6 meetings, Iris Kyle finished ahead of Alina Popa 6 times to 0.
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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