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4x Men's Physique Olympia, 2014–2017

Jeremy Buendia

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Jeremy Buendia won the Men's Physique Olympia four years running, 2014 through 2017. He was second the year before that run started, and has not finished higher than fourth since it ended. Those four titles came while the division was still arguing about whether it counted as bodybuilding.

Known for

Four consecutive Olympia titles is the whole case. Buendia placed second in 2013, then won in 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017, and for those four years the Men's Physique class was effectively decided before it started.

He was also the competitor who made the division argue about itself. Men's Physique had been dismissed as the shallow end of bodybuilding, and a champion who trained and talked like an open competitor was the fastest way that changed.

Early career

His first recorded contest is the teenage lightweight class at the 2010 Contra Costa Championships in California. He turned professional and won the Sacramento Pro and the Greater Gulf States in 2013, then took second at the Olympia in his first appearance there.

The four titles followed. The run ended in 2018 with fourth place, and he did not compete at the Olympia again until 2023, where he finished eighth. He won the Sasquatch Pro in 2025 and placed eighth at the Olympia again that year.

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 Jeremy Buendia.

Men's Physique Olympia

8Appearances
4Titles
5Top 3

All contests on record

11Contests
7Wins
8Top 3

Professional results

Every professional contest result on record for Jeremy Buendia, 11 in all. Won by names the winner of the division Jeremy Buendia competed in, and shows a dash where that winner cannot be pinned to one person in the database.

YearContestDivisionPlaceWon by
2025 2025 Sasquatch Pro Men's Physique #1 Winner
2025 Men's Physique Olympia Men's Physique #8 Ryan Terry
2023 Men's Physique Olympia Men's Physique #8 Ryan Terry
2018 Men's Physique Olympia Men's Physique #4 Brandon Hendrickson
2017 Men's Physique Olympia Men's Physique #1 Winner
2016 Men's Physique Olympia Men's Physique #1 Winner
2015 Men's Physique Olympia Men's Physique #1 Winner
2014 Men's Physique Olympia Men's Physique #1 Winner
2013 Greater Gulf States Men's Physique #1 Winner
2013 IFBB Sacramento Pro Men's Physique #1 Winner
2013 Men's Physique Olympia Men's Physique #2 Mark Anthony

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

2013 to 2025 shown · 11 professional results

Peak Year 2013 (2 wins)

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

2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2023
2025
Olympia 1st place 2nd place 3rd place Other
Pro Debut
2013
Last Contest
2025

Jeremy Buendia at the Olympia, year by year

Jeremy Buendia at the Men's Physique Olympia: 4 titles (2014 to 2017), first appearance 2013. Source: Fitness Volt Bodybuilding Database.
Year Placement Division
2013 2 Men's Physique
2014 1 Men's Physique
2015 1 Men's Physique
2016 1 Men's Physique
2017 1 Men's Physique
2018 4 Men's Physique
2023 8 Men's Physique
2025 8 Men's Physique

Data updated

Physique benchmark

How Jeremy Buendia 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.

25.8FFMI
26.3Normalised FFMI
249thOf 316 measured men

The closest Olympia champion on that measure is Ryan Terry, at 25.9.

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 Jeremy Buendia 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
2012 Amateur Grand Prix (Los Angeles) Men's Bodybuilding (Middleweight) #2
2012 California Championships Men's Bodybuilding (Middleweight) #2
2012 California Governor's Cup Men's Bodybuilding (Middleweight) #4
2010 California Championships Division not recorded (Teen) #3
2010 Contra Costa (CA) Championships Division not recorded (Teen Lightweight) #1

Legacy

Men's Physique now has more competitors than any other division on the schedule. Buendia is the reason a lot of them started, and the standard the class was measured against for four years.

The comeback has not restored the placings. It has kept him in the conversation, which for a division this young is its own kind of continuity.

In 6 meetings, Jeremy Buendia and Ryan Terry are dead even, finishing ahead 3 times apiece.

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 2010 onward.

Win rate here is first-place finishes as a share of all 11 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 11 professional results, Official/primary source Updated September 30, 2026 Accurate?

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