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Ben Pakulski

CountryCanada
GenderMale
Born1981
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StatusRetired

Ben Pakulski is a Men's Open Bodybuilding competitor from Canada with a competitive record spanning 2009–2016.

About

Benjamin "Ben" Pakulski, nicknamed the Pak-Man, is a Canadian IFBB professional bodybuilder and winner of the 2008 Mr. Canada competition. In the IFBB, he finished 2nd twice in 2008. He has increased his standing in the Arnold Classic competition, placing 2nd in 2013, after a 4th-place finish in 2012 and a 10th-place finish in 2011. In the 2012 Mr. Olympia contest, his first-ever, he finished 11th.

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 Ben Pakulski.

Mr. Olympia

2Appearances
0Titles
0Top 3

Arnold Classic

5Appearances
0Titles
1Top 3

All contests on record

20Contests
2Wins
6Top 3

Professional results

Every professional contest result on record for Ben Pakulski, 20 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 Ben Pakulski competed in, and shows a dash where that winner cannot be pinned to one person in the database.

YearContestDivisionPlaceWon by
2016 Arnold Classic Europe Men's Open Bodybuilding #11 Dexter Jackson
2016 IFBB Toronto Pro Supershow Men's Open Bodybuilding #4 Nathan De Asha
2016 IFBB Vancouver Pro Men's Open Bodybuilding #1 Winner
2016 Kuwait Pro Championships Men's Open Bodybuilding #8 Mamdouh Elssbiay
2016 Mr. Olympia Men's Open Bodybuilding #14 Phil Heath
2016 Toronto Pro Men's Open Bodybuilding #4 Nathan De Asha
2016 Vancouver Pro Championships Men's Open Bodybuilding #1 Winner
2015 Arnold Classic Men's Open Bodybuilding #8 Dexter Jackson
2015 Arnold Classic Australia Men's Open Bodybuilding #7 Dexter Jackson
2014 Arnold Classic Men's Open Bodybuilding #7 Dennis Wolf
2013 Arnold Classic Men's Open Bodybuilding #2 Dexter Jackson
2013 Australia Pro Men's Open Bodybuilding #3 Dexter Jackson
2012 Arnold Classic Men's Open Bodybuilding #4 Branch Warren
2012 Flex Pro Men's Open Bodybuilding #2 Lionel Beyeke
2012 Mr. Olympia Men's Open Bodybuilding #11 Phil Heath
2011 Arnold Classic Men's Open Bodybuilding #10 Branch Warren
2011 Flex Pro (Santa Monica) Men's Open Bodybuilding #5 Evan Centopani
2011 Grand Prix Australia Men's Open Bodybuilding #4 Dennis Wolf
2010 New York Pro Championships Men's Open Bodybuilding #7 Roelly Winklaar
2009 Tampa Pro Championships Men's Open Bodybuilding #3 Dennis James

Showing 15 of 20 professional results. Showing all 20 professional results.

Where these results come from. Each contest in the table was recorded from a named source, and for Ben Pakulski those sources are MuscleMemory 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.

Every professional season

2009 to 2016 shown · 20 professional results

Peak Year 2016 (2 wins)

Measured against Ben Pakulski’s own seasons, not against the field.

2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
Olympia 1st place 2nd place 3rd place Other
Pro Debut
2009
Olympia Debut
2012
Last Contest
2016

Ben Pakulski at the Olympia, year by year

Ben Pakulski at the Mr. Olympia: no title, first appearance 2012. Source: Fitness Volt Bodybuilding Database.
Year Placement Division
2012 11 Men's Open Bodybuilding
2016 14 Men's Open Bodybuilding

Data updated

Physique benchmark

How Ben Pakulski 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.

37.9FFMI
38.0Normalised FFMI
10thOf 316 measured men

The closest Olympia champion on that measure is Brandon Curry, at 38.2.

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 Ben Pakulski sits among the athletes we hold measurements for, not among competitors.

Amateur and other shows not counted above

5 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
2011 FIBO Germany Men's Open Bodybuilding #9
2008 Canadian Championships Men's Bodybuilding (Super Heavyweight) #1
2008 North American Championships Men's Bodybuilding (Super Heavyweight) #2
2007 Canadian Championships Men's Bodybuilding (Super Heavyweight) #2
2007 North American Championships Men's Bodybuilding (Super Heavyweight) #2

In 11 meetings, Dexter Jackson finished ahead of Ben Pakulski 10 times to 1.

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.

Win rate here is first-place finishes as a share of all 20 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 20 professional results, Well-verified source Updated September 30, 2026 Accurate?

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