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2x Mr. Olympia, 2023 and 2025; 1x 212 Olympia

Derek Lunsford

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Pro Card2017
Born1993
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Derek Lunsford is a Men's Open Bodybuilding competitor from the United States with a competitive record spanning 2017–2026.

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 Derek Lunsford.

Mr. Olympia

5Appearances
2Titles
5Top 3

212 Olympia

5Appearances
1Title
3Top 3

Arnold Classic

1Appearance
1Title
1Top 3

All contests on record

13Contests
6Wins
11Top 3

Professional results

Every professional contest result on record for Derek Lunsford, 13 in all. Won by names the winner of the division Derek Lunsford competed in, and shows a dash where that winner cannot be pinned to one person in the database.

YearContestDivisionPlaceWon by
2026 Mr. Olympia Men's Open Bodybuilding #3 Nick Walker
2025 Arnold Classic Men's Open Bodybuilding #1 Winner
2025 IFBB Pittsburgh Pro Men's Open Bodybuilding #1 Winner
2025 Mr. Olympia Men's Open Bodybuilding #1 Winner
2024 Mr. Olympia Men's Open Bodybuilding #3 Samson Dauda
2023 Mr. Olympia Men's Open Bodybuilding #1 Winner
2022 Mr. Olympia Men's Open Bodybuilding #2 Hadi Choopan
2021 212 Olympia Men's 212 Bodybuilding #1 Winner
2020 212 Olympia Men's 212 Bodybuilding #4 Shaun Clarida
2019 212 Olympia Men's 212 Bodybuilding #2 Kamal Elgargni
2018 212 Olympia Men's 212 Bodybuilding #2 Flex Lewis
2017 IFBB Tampa Pro Men's 212 Bodybuilding #1 Winner
2017 212 Olympia Men's 212 Bodybuilding #5 Flex Lewis

Where these results come from. Each contest in the table was recorded from a named source, and for Derek Lunsford those sources are NPC Contests 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.

Every professional season

2017 to 2026 shown · 13 professional results

Peak Year 2025 (3 wins)

Measured against Derek Lunsford’s own seasons, not against the field. See the full peak window →

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
Olympia 1st place 2nd place 3rd place Other
Pro Debut
2017
Peak Year
2025
Last Contest
2026

Derek Lunsford at the Olympia, year by year

Derek Lunsford at the Mr. Olympia: 2 titles (2023 and 2025), first appearance 2022. The 212 Olympia, the men's bodybuilding title for competitors at or under 212 lb, is not on this chart: 5 appearances and 1 title, listed in the championship record below. Source: Fitness Volt Bodybuilding Database.
Year Placement Division
2022 2 Men's Open Bodybuilding
2023 1 Men's Open Bodybuilding
2024 3 Men's Open Bodybuilding
2025 1 Men's Open Bodybuilding
2026 3 Men's Open Bodybuilding

Data updated

Physique benchmark

How Derek Lunsford 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.

34.0FFMI
34.7Normalised FFMI
50thOf 316 measured men

The closest Olympia champion on that measure is Shawn Rhoden, at 34.4.

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 Derek Lunsford sits among the athletes we hold measurements for, not among competitors.

Amateur and other shows not counted above

4 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
2017 USA Championships Men's Bodybuilding (Light Heavyweight) #1
2016 Junior Nationals Men's Bodybuilding (Middleweight) #1
2016 USA Championships Men's Bodybuilding (Middleweight) #2
2015 Junior Nationals Men's Bodybuilding (Welterweight) #1

In 6 meetings, Derek Lunsford finished ahead of Samson Dauda 4 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.

Win rate here is first-place finishes as a share of all 13 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 13 professional results, Official/primary source Updated October 1, 2026 Accurate?

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