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1x Ms. Olympia, 2001
Juliette Bergmann
Juliette Bergmann won the Ms. Olympia in 2001, thirteen years after her previous appearance at the contest. She was Dutch, forty-two years old, and had not competed at all in the intervening period.
Known for
The comeback is the record. She competed at the Olympia in 1985, 1986, 1987 and 1988 with a best of sixth, then disappeared from our results entirely until 2001, when she returned and won it.
She won the lightweight class at the 2002 Olympia as well, and before the gap had taken the World Amateur Championships and the European Championships lightweight titles in 1985 and the World Pro Championships in 1986.
Early career
Her record opens in 1983 in the Netherlands and she won the Grand Prix Holland lightweight class in 1984 and 1985. She was runner-up at the Ms. International in 1986.
Her name is recorded in our corpus as previously Meijer, born November 1958.
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 Juliette Bergmann.
Ms. Olympia
6Appearances
1Title
2Top 3
All contests on record
14Contests
5Wins
8Top 3
Professional results
Every professional contest result on record for Juliette Bergmann, 14 in all. Won by names the winner of the division Juliette Bergmann competed in, and shows a dash where that winner cannot be pinned to one person in the database.
| Year | Contest | Division | Place | Won by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Ms. Olympia | Women's Bodybuilding (Lightweight) | #1 | Winner |
| 2001 | Ms. Olympia | Women's Bodybuilding (Open) | #1 | Winner |
| 1989 | World Pro Championships | Women's Bodybuilding (Open) | #15 | Diana Dennis |
| 1988 | Ms. Olympia | Women's Bodybuilding (Open) | #13 | Cory Everson |
| 1987 | Ms. Olympia | Women's Bodybuilding (Open) | #9 | Cory Everson |
| 1987 | World Pro Championships | Women's Bodybuilding (Open) | #7 | Bev Francis |
| 1986 | Los Angeles Pro Championships | Women's Bodybuilding (Open) | #2 | Diana Dennis |
| 1986 | Ms International | Women's Bodybuilding (Open) | #2 | Erica Giesen |
| 1986 | Ms. Olympia | Women's Bodybuilding (Open) | #6 | Cory Everson |
| 1986 | World Pro Championships | Women's Bodybuilding (Open) | #1 | Winner |
| 1985 | Grand Prix Holland | Women's Bodybuilding (Lightweight) | #1 | Winner |
| 1985 | Ms. Olympia | Women's Bodybuilding (Open) | #14 | Cory Everson |
| 1984 | Grand Prix Holland | Women's Bodybuilding (Lightweight) | #1 | Winner |
| 1983 | Grand Prix Holland | Women's Bodybuilding (Lightweight) | #3 | Ellen Van Maris |
Where these results come from. Each contest in the table was recorded from a named source, and for Juliette Bergmann those sources are MuscleMemory and Wikipedia. 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
Olympia
1st place
2nd place
3rd place
Other
- Pro Debut
- 1983
- First Win
- 1984
- Olympia Debut
- 1985
- Last Contest
- 2002
Juliette Bergmann at the Olympia, year by year
| Year | Placement | Division |
|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 14 | Women's Bodybuilding |
| 1986 | 6 | Women's Bodybuilding |
| 1987 | 9 | Women's Bodybuilding |
| 1988 | 13 | Women's Bodybuilding |
| 2001 | 1 | Women's Bodybuilding |
| 2002 | 1 | Women's Bodybuilding (lightweight class) |
Data updated
Physique benchmark
How Juliette Bergmann 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.
21.8FFMI
23.1Normalised FFMI
21stOf 147 measured women
The closest Olympia champion on that measure is Jen Hendershott, at 22.9.
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 Juliette Bergmann sits among the athletes we hold measurements for, not among competitors.
Amateur and other shows not counted above
7 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
| Year | Contest | Division | Place |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | Gran Prix Los Angeles | Women's Bodybuilding (Open) | #2 |
| 1985 | European Amateur Championships | Women's Bodybuilding (Lightweight) | #1 |
| 1985 | World Amateur Championships | Women's Bodybuilding (Lightweight) | #1 |
| 1984 | Holland Nationals | Women's Bodybuilding (Lightweight) | #2 |
| 1983 | Gold Cup | Women's Bodybuilding (Lightweight) | #2 |
| 1983 | Holland Iron Maiden | Women's Bodybuilding (Lightweight) | #2 |
| 1983 | Holland Nationals | Women's Bodybuilding (Lightweight) | #3 |
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Legacy
Winning a Ms. Olympia is rare. Winning one after thirteen years away from competition, in your forties, is something no other champion in this database has done.
Most-met rivals
Compare any two athletes →In 6 meetings, Marjo Selin finished ahead of Juliette Bergmann 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.
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Sources
Competition placings on this page come from our own contest database and cover 1983 to 2002.
Win rate here is first-place finishes as a share of all 14 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.