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1x Arnold Classic

Hidetada Yamagishi

CountryJapan
GenderMale
Pro Card2016
Born1973
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StatusActive

Hidetada Yamagishi was the first Japanese bodybuilder to compete at the Mr. Olympia and the first invited to the Arnold Classic. He has competed since 1998 and won the Arnold Classic 212 in 2016.

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, 2007 through 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. His professional record holds 57 contests.

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 Hidetada Yamagishi.

212 Olympia

6Appearances
0Titles
1Top 3

Mr. Olympia

5Appearances
0Titles
0Top 3

Arnold Classic

8Appearances
1Title
2Top 3

All contests on record

57Contests
5Wins
20Top 3

Professional results

Every professional contest result on record for Hidetada Yamagishi, 57 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 IFBB Masters Olympia Men's 212 Bodybuilding #2 Samir Troudi
2023 Masters Olympia Pro Men's 212 Bodybuilding (Masters 40+) #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 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 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 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
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

Showing 15 of 57 professional results. Showing all 57 professional 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.

Every professional season

2005 to 2025 shown · 57 professional results

Peak Year 2019 (2 wins)

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

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
2005
Olympia Debut
2007
First Win
2014
Peak Year
2019
Last Contest
2025

Hidetada Yamagishi at the Olympia, year by year

Hidetada Yamagishi at the Mr. Olympia: no title, first appearance 2007. The 212 Olympia, the men's bodybuilding title for competitors at or under 212 lb, is not on this chart: 6 appearances and 0 titles, listed in the championship record below. 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

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

Amateur and other shows not counted above

15 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
2010 Orlando Show of Champions Men's Open Bodybuilding #1
2009 Orlando Show of Champions Men's Open Bodybuilding #2
2002 Asian Games Men's Bodybuilding (Light-Middleweight) #4
2002 Japan Nationals Men's Bodybuilding (Middleweight) #1
2002 Mr Japan Men's Open Bodybuilding #3
2002 World Amateur Championships Men's Bodybuilding (Welterweight) #10
2001 Asian Amateur Championships Men's Bodybuilding (Light-Middleweight) #1
2001 Japan Nationals Men's Bodybuilding (Middleweight) #1
2001 Mr Japan Men's Open Bodybuilding #2
2001 World Games Men's Bodybuilding (Middleweight) #5
2000 Mr Japan Men's Open Bodybuilding #3
2000 World Amateur Championships Men's Bodybuilding (Welterweight) #6
1999 Asian Amateur Championships Men's Bodybuilding (Light-Middleweight) #4
1999 Japan Nationals Men's Bodybuilding (Middleweight) #2
1998 Japan Nationals Men's Bodybuilding (Middleweight) #2

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.

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.

Sources

Competition placings on this page come from our own contest database and cover his record from 1998 onward.

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.

Win rate here is first-place finishes as a share of all 57 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 57 professional results, Official/primary source Updated October 1, 2026 Accurate?

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