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Brenda Raganot
Brenda Raganot won the Ms. International lightweight class in 2000 and 2005 and the Arnold Classic figure international title in 2005. She competed for seventeen years.
Known for
Two Ms. International titles five years apart, with runner-up finishes there in 2001 and a third in 2003. The 2005 season produced both the Ms. International and the Arnold figure title.
Her best Olympia finish is fifth, in 2005, from four appearances.
Early career
She won the North American Championships heavyweight class in 1994 and the Nationals middleweight class in 1998, and was runner-up at the Nationals in 1995 and 1997.
Championship record
Where the titles came from
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 Brenda Raganot.
Ms. Olympia
4Appearances
0Titles
0Top 3
Arnold Classic
1Appearance
1Title
1Top 3
All contests on record
18Contests
3Wins
7Top 3
Professional results
Every professional contest result on record for Brenda Raganot, 18 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 Brenda Raganot competed in, and shows a dash where that winner cannot be pinned to one person in the database.
| Year | Contest | Division | Place | Won by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Ms International | Women's Bodybuilding | #10 | Iris Kyle |
| 2009 | Atlantic City Pro | Women's Bodybuilding | #4 | Lisa Aukland |
| 2009 | Ms International | Women's Bodybuilding | #11 | Iris Kyle |
| 2009 | New York Pro Championships | Women's Bodybuilding (Open) | #8 | Cathy Lefrançois |
| 2008 | Ms International | Women's Bodybuilding | #5 | Yaxeni Oriquen |
| 2008 | Ms. Olympia | Women's Bodybuilding (Open) | #12 | Iris Kyle |
| 2007 | Atlantic City Pro | Women's Bodybuilding (Heavyweight) | #12 | Lisa Aukland |
| 2007 | Sacramento Pro | Women's Bodybuilding (Heavyweight) | #3 | Heather Armbrust |
| 2006 | Ms. Olympia | Women's Bodybuilding (Open) | #15 | Iris Kyle |
| 2005 | Arnold Classic | Women's Figure (International) | #1 | Winner |
| 2005 | Ms International | Women's Bodybuilding (Lightweight) | #1 | Winner |
| 2005 | Ms. Olympia | Women's Bodybuilding (Open) | #5 | Yaxeni Oriquen |
| 2004 | Ms International | Women's Bodybuilding (Heavyweight) | #5 | Iris Kyle |
| 2003 | Ms International | Women's Bodybuilding (Heavyweight) | #3 | Yaxeni Oriquen |
| 2001 | Ms International | Women's Bodybuilding (Lightweight) | #2 | Dayana Cadeau |
| 2000 | Ms International | Women's Bodybuilding (Lightweight) | #1 | Winner |
| 1999 | Ms. Olympia | Women's Bodybuilding (Open) | #9 | Kim Chizevsky |
| 1999 | Pro Extravaganza | Women's Bodybuilding (Open) | #2 | Laura Creavalle |
Showing 15 of 18 professional results.
Where these results come from. Each contest in the table was recorded from a named source, and for Brenda Raganot those sources are MuscleMemory and Wikipedia. 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
Peak Year 2005 (2 wins)
Measured against Brenda Raganot’s own seasons, not against the field. See the full peak window →
Olympia
1st place
2nd place
3rd place
Other
- Pro Debut
- 1999
- First Win
- 2000
- Peak Year
- 2005
- Last Contest
- 2010
Brenda Raganot at the Olympia, year by year
| Year | Placement | Division |
|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 9 | Women's Bodybuilding |
| 2005 | 5 | Women's Bodybuilding |
| 2006 | 15 | Women's Bodybuilding |
| 2008 | 12 | Women's Bodybuilding |
Data updated
Physique benchmark
How Brenda Raganot 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.
22.4FFMI
23.6Normalised FFMI
18thOf 147 measured women
The closest Olympia champion on that measure is Juliette Bergmann, at 23.1.
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 Brenda Raganot sits among the athletes we hold measurements for, not among competitors.
Amateur and other shows not counted above
6 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
| Year | Contest | Division | Place |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | Nationals | Women's Bodybuilding (Middleweight) | #1 |
| 1997 | Nationals | Women's Bodybuilding (Middleweight) | #2 |
| 1996 | USA Championships | Women's Bodybuilding (Heavyweight) | #4 |
| 1995 | Nationals | Women's Bodybuilding (Middleweight) | #2 |
| 1994 | North American Championships | Women's Bodybuilding (Heavyweight) | #1 |
| 1993 | USA Championships | Women's Bodybuilding (Middleweight) | #3 |
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Legacy
Raganot won at the Arnold in two different divisions in the same year, which almost nobody has done. The rest of the record is a long, consistent presence in a division that was steadily losing its schedule.
Most-met rivals
Compare any two athletes →In 8 meetings, Iris Kyle finished ahead of Brenda Raganot 7 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.
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Sources
Competition placings on this page come from our own contest database and cover 1993 to 2010.
Win rate here is first-place finishes as a share of all 18 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.