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Hidetada Yamagishi is a Men's 212 Bodybuilding competitor from Japan. Hidetada Yamagishi has a verified height of 5'7" (170 cm) and a recorded contest weight of 215 lb (98 kg).

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1x Arnold Classic

Hidetada Yamagishi

CountryJapan
GenderMale
Pro Card2016
Born1973
Social Instagram X
StatusActive
High confidence 74 recorded results, Official/primary source Updated August 14, 2026 Accurate?

Hidetada Yamagishi, a bodybuilder from Japan, stands 5'7" (170 cm) tall and competes at a contest weight of around 215 lb (98 kg). He was born on June 30, 1973 and is 53 years old.

Career Record

Total Results
74
Wins
10
Win Rate
13.5%
Career
1998–2025
Height
5'7" (170 cm)
Weight
215 lb (98 kg)
Age
53
Country
Japan
Arnold Classic Titles
1
Verified
Sources
41

Hidetada Yamagishi was the first Japanese bodybuilder to compete at the Mr. Olympia and the first invited to the Arnold Classic. He competed for twenty-seven years and won the Arnold Classic 212 in 2016.

Win rate here is first-place finishes as a share of all 74 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

1998 to 2025 shown · 74 results on record

Peak Year 2001 (2 wins)

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

1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2023
2025
Olympia 1st place 2nd place 3rd place Other
Pro Debut
1998
First Win
2001
Olympia Debut
2007
Last Contest
2025
Hidetada Yamagishi Olympia Career: 0 title(s). First appeared at the Olympia in 2007 and placed 13. Source: Fitness Volt Bodybuilding Database.
Year Placement Division
2007 13 Men's Open Bodybuilding
2009 9 Men's Open Bodybuilding
2010 10 Men's Open Bodybuilding
2011 10 Men's Open Bodybuilding
2012 15 Men's Open Bodybuilding

Data updated

Known for

The 2016 Arnold Classic in the capped division is the biggest title, and his best Olympia finish is third in 2015. Eleven Olympia appearances between 2007 and 2023.

The professional wins run from the Orlando Show of Champions in 2010 through the Tampa Pro in 2014 to the Europa Dallas and Monsterzym Pro in 2019, and he won the Masters Olympia 212 title in 2023.

Early career

He won the Japan Nationals in 2001 and 2002 and the Asian Amateur Championships in 2001 before turning professional, and seventy-six contests are recorded for him in total.

Championship record

Where the titles came from

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 Hidetada Yamagishi, amateur shows included.

Mr. Olympia

13Appearances
1Titles
3Top 3

Arnold Classic

12Appearances
1Titles
2Top 3

All contests on record

74Contests
10Wins
32Top 3
Physique benchmark

How Hidetada Yamagishi 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.

31.7FFMI
32.4Normalised FFMI
101stOf 316 measured men

The closest Olympia champion on that measure is Lee Haney, at 32.1.

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: 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 Hidetada Yamagishi sits among the athletes we hold measurements for, not among competitors.

All results

Every contest result on record for Hidetada Yamagishi, 74 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 Hidetada Yamagishi competed in, and shows a dash where that winner cannot be pinned to one person in the database.

YearContestDivisionPlaceWon by
2025 212 Olympia Men's 212 Bodybuilding #2 Samir Troudi
2023 212 Olympia Men's 212 Bodybuilding #1 Winner
2023 212 Olympia Men's 212 Bodybuilding #16 Keone Pearson
2020 212 Olympia Men's 212 Bodybuilding #14 Shaun Clarida
2019 IFBB Europa Dallas Men's 212 Bodybuilding #1 Winner
2019 IFBB Monsterzym Pro Men's 212 Bodybuilding #1 Winner
2019 212 Olympia Men's 212 Bodybuilding #8 Kamal Elgargni
2018 Arnold Classic Men's Open Bodybuilding #10 William Bonac
2018 Arnold Classic Australia Men's Open Bodybuilding #5 Roelly Winklaar
2018 IFBB Indy Pro Men's Open Bodybuilding #7 Stephen Kuclo
2017 Arnold Classic Men's 212 Bodybuilding #6 Ahmad Hamad Ashkanani
2016 Arnold Classic Men's 212 Bodybuilding #1 Winner
2016 IFBB Europa Phoenix Men's 212 Bodybuilding #3 Charles Dixon
2016 IFBB Europa Phoenix Men's 212 Bodybuilding #3 Charles Dixon
2016 Korean Grand Prix Men's Open Bodybuilding #3 Flex Lewis
2016 212 Olympia Men's 212 Bodybuilding #6 Flex Lewis
2015 Arnold Classic Men's 212 Bodybuilding #2 Jose Raymond
2015 212 Olympia Men's 212 Bodybuilding #3 Flex Lewis
2014 Arnold Classic Men's 212 Bodybuilding #4 Flex Lewis
2014 Chicago Pro Championships Men's 212 Bodybuilding #2 Charles Dixon
2014 IFBB Tampa Pro Men's 212 Bodybuilding #1 Winner
2014 IFBB Tampa Pro Men's 212 Bodybuilding #1 Winner
2014 Korean Grand Prix Men's 212 Bodybuilding #6 Flex Lewis
2014 212 Olympia Men's 212 Bodybuilding #4 Flex Lewis
2013 Arnold Classic Men's Open Bodybuilding #5 Dexter Jackson
2013 Arnold Classic Brasil Men's Open Bodybuilding #8 Brandon Curry
2012 Arnold Classic Europe Men's Open Bodybuilding #12 Shawn Rhoden
2012 IFBB British Grand Prix Men's Open Bodybuilding #8 Shawn Rhoden
2012 IFBB Europa SuperShow Men's Open Bodybuilding #2 Shawn Rhoden
2012 Mr. Olympia Men's Open Bodybuilding #15 Phil Heath
2012 Pro Bodybuilding Weekly Championships Men's Open Bodybuilding #3 Shawn Rhoden
2012 Tampa Pro Championships Men's Open Bodybuilding #3 Shawn Rhoden
2011 Arnold Classic Europe Men's Open Bodybuilding #6 Victor Martinez
2011 Mr. Olympia Men's Open Bodybuilding #10 Phil Heath
2011 Phoenix Pro Men's Open Bodybuilding #2 Troy Alves
2011 Tampa Pro Championships Men's Open Bodybuilding #2 Marius Dohne
2010 Arnold Classic Men's Open Bodybuilding #8 Kai Greene
2010 Mr. Olympia Men's Open Bodybuilding #10 Jay Cutler
2010 New York Pro Championships Men's Open Bodybuilding #2 Roelly Winklaar
2010 Orlando Show of Champions Men's Open Bodybuilding #1 Winner
2010 Phoenix Pro Men's Open Bodybuilding #2 Melvin Anthony
2010 Tampa Pro Championships Men's Open Bodybuilding #7 Ben White
2009 Atlantic City Pro Men's Open Bodybuilding #2 Gustavo Badell
2009 Ironman Pro Invitational Men's Open Bodybuilding #4 Silvio Samuel Saviour
2009 Mr. Olympia Men's Open Bodybuilding #9 Jay Cutler
2009 New York Pro Championships Men's Open Bodybuilding #5 Evan Centopani
2009 Orlando Show of Champions Men's Open Bodybuilding #2 Troy Alves
2008 Atlantic City Pro Men's Open Bodybuilding #8 Melvin Anthony
2007 Arnold Classic Men's Open Bodybuilding #13 Victor Martinez
2007 Atlantic City Pro Men's Open Bodybuilding #9 Johnnie O. Jackson
2007 Grand Prix Australia Men's Open Bodybuilding #5 Dexter Jackson
2007 Ironman Pro Invitational Men's Open Bodybuilding #7 Toney Freeman
2007 Mr. Olympia Men's Open Bodybuilding #13 Jay Cutler
2007 Sacramento Pro Men's Open Bodybuilding #3 Toney Freeman
2006 Grand Prix Austria Men's Open Bodybuilding #12 Jay Cutler
2006 Grand Prix Holland Men's Open Bodybuilding #4 Jay Cutler
2006 Grand Prix Romania Men's Open Bodybuilding #6 Jay Cutler
2006 Ironman Pro Invitational Men's Open Bodybuilding Unplaced Lee Priest
2006 San Francisco Pro Men's Open Bodybuilding #11 Gustavo Badell
2006 Santa Susanna Pro Men's Open Bodybuilding #12 Paco Bautista
2005 Ironman Pro Invitational Men's Open Bodybuilding Unplaced Gustavo Badell
2002 Asian Games Other Divisions #4 Ly Duc
2002 Japan Nationals Men's Open Bodybuilding #1 Winner
2002 Mr Japan Men's Open Bodybuilding #3 Makoto Tashiro
2002 World Amateur Championships Men's Open Bodybuilding #10
2001 Asian Amateur Championships Other Divisions #1 Winner
2001 Japan Nationals Men's Open Bodybuilding #1 Winner
2001 Mr Japan Men's Open Bodybuilding #2 Makoto Tashiro
2001 World Games Men's Open Bodybuilding #5 Pavlos Mentis
2000 Mr Japan Men's Open Bodybuilding #3 Yoshihiro Yano
2000 World Amateur Championships Men's Open Bodybuilding #6 Dan Pechanek
1999 Asian Amateur Championships Other Divisions #4 Jose Lin Ding Zheng
1999 Japan Nationals Men's Open Bodybuilding #2 Yoshihiro Yano
1998 Japan Nationals Men's Open Bodybuilding #2 Yoshihiro Yano

Showing 15 of 74 recorded results. Showing all 74 recorded results.

Where these results come from. Each contest in the table was recorded from a named source, and for Hidetada Yamagishi 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.

Legacy

Being first matters more than a placing here. Japanese bodybuilding had no presence at the Olympia at all until Yamagishi qualified in 2007, and he was still competing at that level sixteen years later.

Sources

Competition placings on this page come from our own contest database and cover 1998 to 2025.

His status as the first Japanese competitor at the Mr. Olympia and the Arnold Classic is carried from the biography previously held in our corpus.

Some contests appear twice in the table below because one result was recorded under two division labels. They are single contests.

In 21 meetings, Toney Freeman finished ahead of Hidetada Yamagishi 17 times to 4.

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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