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Kike Elomaa
Kike Elomaa won the Ms. Olympia in 1981, in the contest's second year, and competed for three seasons in total. She was Finnish, she weighed 53 kilograms on stage, and she went on to a career in music and then in Finnish politics.
Known for
Elomaa's Olympia title came in 1981, when women's bodybuilding barely had a settled definition of what it was judging. She won the European Amateur Championships heavyweight class and the World Games in the same year, which is as complete a season as the sport offered at the time.
Her recorded stage weight, 53 kilograms at 165 centimetres, says more about that era than any description can. The division she won looks nothing like the one that carries the same name now.
Early career
Her entire competitive record in our database runs from 1981 to 1983: the Olympia title in 1981, third in 1982, fifth in 1983. Three years, and then she stopped.
What she did afterwards is the unusual part. She built a career as a singer in Finland, and was later elected to the Finnish parliament, which makes her one of very few Olympia champions in any division to hold national office.
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 Kike Elomaa.
Ms. Olympia
3Appearances
1Title
2Top 3
All contests on record
4Contests
1Wins
3Top 3
Professional results
Every professional contest result on record for Kike Elomaa, 4 in all. Won by names the winner of the division Kike Elomaa competed in, and shows a dash where that winner cannot be pinned to one person in the database.
| Year | Contest | Division | Place | Won by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | Ms. Olympia | Women's Bodybuilding (Open) | #5 | Carla Dunlap |
| 1983 | World Pro Championships | Women's Bodybuilding (Open) | #2 | Carla Dunlap |
| 1982 | Ms. Olympia | Women's Bodybuilding (Open) | #3 | Rachel McLish |
| 1981 | Ms. Olympia | Women's Bodybuilding (Open) | #1 | Winner |
Where these results come from. Each contest in the table was recorded from a named source, and for Kike Elomaa those sources are Wikipedia and MuscleMemory. 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
- 1981
- Last Contest
- 1983
Kike Elomaa at the Olympia, year by year
| Year | Placement | Division |
|---|---|---|
| 1981 | 1 | Women's Bodybuilding |
| 1982 | 3 | Women's Bodybuilding |
| 1983 | 5 | Women's Bodybuilding |
Data updated
Physique benchmark
How Kike Elomaa 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.
18.3FFMI
19.2Normalised FFMI
128thOf 147 measured women
The closest Olympia champion on that measure is Janet Layug, at 19.1.
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 Kike Elomaa sits among the athletes we hold measurements for, not among competitors.
Amateur and other shows not counted above
2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | European Amateur Championships | Women's Bodybuilding (Heavyweight) | #1 |
| 1981 | World Games | Women's Bodybuilding (Heavyweight) | #1 |
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Legacy
Elomaa is one of the earliest Ms. Olympia champions and among the least discussed, partly because she left the sport almost immediately and partly because the era she won in has been written about mainly through its American competitors.
The three-year record is not a short career that fizzled. It is a complete one: she entered, she won the biggest title available, and she went and did something else.
Most-met rivals
Compare any two athletes →In 3 meetings, Carla Dunlap finished ahead of Kike Elomaa 3 times to 0.
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 her record from 1981 to 1983.
Her later work in music and in Finnish politics is a matter of public record and is not held in our database. We have not traced it to a primary source.
No win rate is shown. With 4 recorded contest results on file, a single placing would move the figure by twenty points or more, so the percentage would describe how much of this career the database holds rather than anything about the athlete. The counts above are neither rounded nor capped.