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Jeremy Buendia is a Men's Physique competitor from the United States. Jeremy Buendia has a verified height of 5'8" (173 cm) and a recorded contest weight of 180 lb (82 kg).
4x Men's Physique Olympia, 2014–2017
Jeremy Buendia
Jeremy Buendia, a bodybuilder from the United States, stands 5'8" (173 cm) tall and competes at a contest weight of around 180 lb (82 kg). He was born on October 10, 1990 and is 35 years old.
Career Record
- Total Results
- 16
- Wins
- 8
- Win Rate
- 50%
- Career
- 2010–2025
- Height
- 5'8" (173 cm)
- Weight
- 180 lb (82 kg)
- Age
- 35
- Division
- Men's Physique
- Country
- United States
- Olympia Titles
- 4
- Verified
- Sources
- 21
Jeremy Buendia won the Men's Physique Olympia four years running, from 2014 to 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.
Win rate here is first-place finishes as a share of all 16 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
Peak Year 2013 (2 wins)
Measured against Jeremy Buendia’s own seasons, not against the field. See the full peak window →
Olympia
1st place
2nd place
3rd place
Other
- Pro Debut
- 2010
- Olympia Debut
- 2013
- Last Contest
- 2025
| 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
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 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 Jeremy Buendia, amateur shows included.
Men's Physique Olympia
8Appearances
4Titles
5Top 3
All contests on record
16Contests
8Wins
12Top 3
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: 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 Jeremy Buendia sits among the athletes we hold measurements for, not among competitors.
All results
Every contest result on record for Jeremy Buendia, 16 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 Jeremy Buendia competed in, and shows a dash where that winner cannot be pinned to one person in the database.
| Year | Contest | Division | Place | Won 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 |
| 2012 | Amateur Grand Prix (Los Angeles) | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #2 | Cesar Martinez |
| 2012 | California Championships | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #2 | Jamil Dotson |
| 2012 | California Governor's Cup | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #4 | Cane Bishop |
| 2010 | California Championships | Other Divisions | #3 | Seth Sandler |
| 2010 | Contra Costa (CA) Championships | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
Showing 15 of 16 recorded results.
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, MuscleMemory 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. 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.
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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.
Sources
Competition placings on this page come from our own contest database and cover his record from 2010 to 2025.
Most-met rivals
Compare any two athletes →In 6 meetings, Jeremy Buendia and Brandon Hendrickson 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.
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